Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Obama's turnaround in recent weeks -- he's seized the offensive with a series of controversial executive actions and challenges to leaders in his own party on the budget -- can be attributed to a fundamental change in his political mindset, according to current and former aides. He's gone from thinking of himself as a sitting (lame) duck, they tell me, to a president diving headlong into what amounts to a final campaign -- this one to preserve his legacy, add policy points to the scoreboard, and -- last but definitely not least -- to inflict the same kind of punishment on his newly empowered Republican enemies, who delighted in tormenting him when he was on top. |


