President Obama could have embraced his debt commission, and as Senator Judd Gregg noted on one senior RNC official, had Obama endorsed his commission, Senate Republicans would have been hard-pressed not to fall in line.
The board endorsed the commission's recommendations on Tuesday.
Even more importantly, it largely endorsed the commission's legal reasoning.
In an attempt to unite the Party, Humphrey endorsed a commission to reform the nominating system.
Saying that he endorsed the commission's recommendations enthusiastically, Mr. Bloomberg charged his agencies with developing plans within 60 days.
Samsung, which in August lost the patent case and was told to pay Apple more than $599 million in damages, endorsed the commission's ruling.
"Many of the 9/11 families have endorsed the commission's recommendations as a whole," Robin K. Wiener, a member of the Family Steering Committee, testified in the House last week.
In September, the Court of First Instance, Europe's highest after the European Court of Justice, endorsed the commission's 2004 decision to impose record fines on Microsoft.
The Pentagon's inspector general, whose office conducts internal investigations, also endorsed the commission, telling its Democratic authors in a November meeting: "We're leaning forward in the saddle, we're committed to this". The president appears less committed, however.
"He was dismissive," Mr. Shays said, noting that Mr. Rumsfeld's comments appeared to put him at odds with the White House, which has endorsed the commission's call for creation of the job.
The real truth is that Paul Ryan completely rejects the approach of that commission – because it includes tax increases along with spending cuts – while Barack Obama has, while not endorsing the exact plan that Ryan shot down, basically endorsed the commission's approach.
