Zinging the Pres

Those crafty devils. The House majority, long thought of as a robot army for the President, struck back today on the ports deal. The emergency supplemental appropriations bill, jammed full of money for Iraq and our other war zone, Lousiana, is a must-have for the President. The House is prepared to give the President what he wants on Iraq and Louisiana so long as the backbench gets its pound of flesh: no DPW ports management deal. This may be the first evidence that the House is under new management; that’s just the kind of clever, majority-saving thought Leader Boehner might come up with. We could do with a bit more of that kind of thing in the coming months only with guns trained on the opposition instead of the President.