OBAMA’S HUMAN SHIELD: Nick Gillespie: As Anger at Eric Holder Grows, So Does His Value as Obama’s Lightning Rod.
Related: John Fund: Obama’s ‘Chicago Way’: The administration’s political tactics are straight out of the Daley playbook. “The scandals swirling around the Obama administration have many journalists scratching their heads as to how ‘hope and change’ seem to have been supplanted by ‘arrogance and fear.’ Perhaps it’s time they revisit one of their original premises about Barack Obama: that he wasn’t influenced by the Chicago Daley machine. You know: the machine that boosted his career and whose protégés — including Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and his wife, Michelle — he brought to Washington with him.”
Plus: Ed Morrissey: It’s Time for Eric Holder to Man Up and Step Down.