President Obama uses his weekly address to push congress to "get its act together and pass this jobs bill so I can sign it into law." Clearly, he's planning on the Truman strategy of running against a do-nothing congress.
In response, the GOP blames regulations for unemployment. Like the failed tax breaks, the argument here seems to be that if you do this one thing for businesses, they'll go out and hire a bunch of people they don't actually need. Supply and demand continues to be a completely foreign concept to the Republican Party, who seem to believe that the economy is struggling because rich people are sad.
Ezra Klein takes on the recent pundit-fad of saying that Chris Christie is too fat to be president. Good for him. I'll take things a bit further by saying that the fad lets Christie wear the conservatives' favorite crown -- that of the victim. As a result, we're all arguing about shit that doesn't matter and ignoring the fact that Chris Christie is just awful. This actually works to the governor's advantage. The more time the press squabbles over bullshit, the less real coverage Christie's policies get. Pundits stop it. Just stop.
Finally, President Obama pulls down more that $55 million in the third quarter.
