BY GARY ANDRES
Reprinted from weeklystandard.com
The news media hailed President Obama’s victory on the Wall Street reform bill signed into law earlier this week as another example of his legislative prowess.
When it comes to congressional arm-twisting, New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg, like others, extolled him as a modern day LBJ.
“If passage of the financial regulatory overhaul on Thursday proves anything about President Obama it is this,” Stolberg wrote. “He knows how to push big bills through a balky Congress.”
Writing in the Christian Science Monitor last week, Linda Feldman shared the sentiment: “Passage of financial regulatory reform signals another landmark legislative victory for President Obama, following the Recovery Act and health-care reform.”