And She has been sooo successful, too - Obama holds up first lady's efforts as a model for policy action

Constitution, what Constitution, that's that little people's law! She is the prime example in undeserved rewards. Her 'great' school nutrition reforms have been reversed because no one wanted them, especially the students. Her White House vegetable garden has gone fallow and to the foxes. She wastes our resources on her lavish, tasteless expenses. There is no decorum present here. m/r

Obama holds up first lady's efforts as a model for policy action - latimes.com

By Kathleen Hennessey
February 2, 2014

In the State of the Union speech, he promised the West Wing would take a page from the East Wing's playbook in getting things done without legislation. It's a shift in strategy.

WASHINGTON — As President Obama looks to show off all he can do without Congress, he's been pointing to a surprising place for guidance on the savvy use of power: the other side of the White House.

In public and private, the president has been holding up Michelle Obama's initiatives in the East Wing as a template for how the West Wing could accomplish a policy agenda the non-legislative way. He has called his wife's team a model for what's possible, and, in his State of the Union address last week, he said, "As usual, our first lady sets a good example."

The first lady's "Let's Move" campaign has reduced childhood obesity for the first time in three decades, Obama asserted in his prime-time speech to Congress and the nation. Her "Joining Forces" effort has led companies to hire or train nearly 400,000 veterans and their spouses, he said. And her successes have come without help from the lawmakers on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-action-20140202,0,3613509.story#ixzz2sGTRv3Gf