In an effort to be “objective” and feel like “a big deal,” the Washington Political Press has decided Barack Obama’s 16-day presidency is in Crisis Mode, possibly collapsing exactly like Nixon, late in his second term, right now! The evidence, so far, consists of Obama doing pretty much everything he said would be done in the first days of his first four-year term, including signing several symbolic/significant bills and orders, appointing three actual Republicans to his Cabinet, and steamrolling an epic Economic Stimulus package through Congress that will (in whatever final form) be the most ambitious thing of its kind since the New Deal. So, uh, FAIL? MORE »