Once again, the Obama administration caves to the demands of corporations (wasn't it just this week that they backed down on the date of a major Presidential speech?)

The Obama administration is abandoning its plan to immediately tighten air quality rules nationwide to cut reduce [sic] emissions of smog-causing chemicals after an intense lobbying campaign by industry, which said the new rule would cost billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs, officials said Friday.

Oh, yes, on Wednesday, the Speaker of the House, John Boehner told the President of the United States "no." It was not convenient to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress on the day he (unwisely) chose for a topic vital to the well-being of the country.

Disrespecting the President of the United States has become accepted behavior, it seems. Remember when "you lie" was shouted out during an address to Congress? Do you recall walking out of budget talks, refusing to return presidential phone calls, turning down requests for meetings?

I don't remember such disrespect, even for Nixon.

And President Obama, like a good boy, just wants to get along, so he continues to accede to the bullying. How much longer, Mr. President? The country suffers.