DHS Funding Bill Another Victory For Lame Duck Loser Obama

In the days following the 2014 midterms, even liberals in the political media were sticking a giant fork in President Obama, declaring that his era was over, and that he was a lame duck. This week, though, that same President Obama continued a post-midterm, post-mortem string of victories that would make Lazarus curl up in a ball. It’s like a Walking Dead episode, in reverse.

At the beginning of the week, everyone was wondering how the House of Representatives would work its way out of the showdown it provoked with the President over funding the Department of Homeland Security. On Monday night, Thom Hartmann and I talked about the Republicans’ attempt to tie DHS funding to the President’s immigration actions, and while I predicted that the House would have to pass a clean bill at some point, there was something Hartmann said that now seems particularly resonant in hindsight…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.