The premise for today's article, which Drudge is now hyping? Obama is taunting and confronting Republicans. Who says so? Republicans.

But wait, it's true because the Journal has proof of Obama's new partisan, in-your-face approach [emphasis added]:

On Thursday, the president challenged Republicans who planned to campaign on repealing his health-care bill with, "Go for it." Two days later, he made 15 senior appointments without Senate consent, including a union lawyer whose nomination had been blocked by a filibuster.

At a bill-signing event Tuesday, he is set to laud passage of higher-education legislation that was approved despite Republican objections through a parliamentary maneuver that neutralized the party's filibuster threat.

On Thursday, Mr. Obama will be in Maine, home state of two moderate Republican senators who opposed his health-care plan, to promote the health law.

Even his surprise trip to Afghanistan on Sunday mobilized the perks of the presidency to marshal public opinion, as pictures were beamed home of Mr. Obama mobbed by U.S. troops.

To recap, Obama is confronting Republicans by urging them to try to repeal health care reform, signing a bill into law that they opposed, traveling to Maine, and traveling to Afghanistan.

What a trash talker!

UPDATED: BTW, the Journal article may include the single dumbest sentence I've read this month:

Mr. Obama campaigned on calling for an end to partisan bickering in Washington, but once in office he launched an ambitious agenda that pursued several long-held Democratic goals.