Stormy Monday, 8/19/13

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Jeff Rosenzweig: Stormy Monday, 8/19/13

After a Martha’s Vineyard vacation that included dinner with Deval Patrick, a cocktail party at the home of Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, and a round of golf with Larry David, President Obama returned to Washington yesterday and starts the week with a Monday afternoon meeting with financial regulators to review implementation of Dodd-Frank. Things get a little livelier on Tuesday, when he hosts the 1972 Miami Dolphins in a ceremony belatedly honoring their perfect season.

On Thursday, the President heads to upstate New York for a two-day bus tour. His itinerary includes stops in Syracuse, Buffalo and Binghamton, as well as Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he’ll be joined by Vice President Biden. The trip continues his barnstorming on economic issues, with the focus this time on education.

Work continues this week on the installation of new solar panels at the White House, a move announced three years ago. The mansion will be partially solar-powered for the first time since Ronald Reagan had President Carter’s solar panels removed in 1986.

Saturday has been designated to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington. The National Action Network has a range of events planned, the largest of which is a morning rally at the Lincoln Memorial followed by a march to the King Memorial. Both monuments have been receiving some hurried TLC recently, the former because some jerk splashed Lincoln’s statue with green paint in July, and the latter for the painstaking removal of a shoddy paraphrase of an MLK quote, a paraphrase derided by Maya Angelou as making Dr. King “look like an arrogant twit.” President Obama will speak from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at a “Let Freedom Ring” rally on August 28, the actual anniversary of the March...

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