Confident Obama Team Already Planning Second Term

With the debates around the corner and the presidential race in full swing,the Obama administration is quietly planning a second term,Politico reported,as it assesses staff and crafts legislative plans.

What might seem as overconfidence,however,has some precedent in previous administrations. Still,a host of liberal groups also are quietly planning renewed lobbying efforts to pressure what would be a “lame-duck”president to push through some big-ticket projects, Politico reports.

Among the moves anticipated:

• The liberal Alliance for Justice,Leadership Conference of Civil Rights and the People for the American Way,among others,are focused on trying to make the process move faster to place more liberal federal judges on the bench.
• Heads of the major environmental groups held a two-day retreat in July at the Wye Plantation in Talbot County,Md.,to consider ways to push big cap-and-trade programs in a second term.
• Environmental,gay-rights and immigration groups mindful of Obama’s own tight window for action are also working on how to get their ideas wrapped in various bills.
• Obama told Time Magazine that because of his policy contrasts with Romney,he’d interpret a win as giving him a mandate to end the Bush-era tax cuts for people earning more than $250,000.

Read more at Newsmax. By Patrick Hobin.

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