President Barack Obama and his Democrat allies on Capitol Hill initiated a multi-prong attack against their Republican opponents this week in an effort to put them on the hook in the 2012 election over their refusal to allow an up-or-down vote on Richard Cordray, the president’s nominee to head the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The initiative started this weekend, when the White House released a report and began an accompanying media blitz, warning of the dangers American consumers face in the financial marketplace without a director at the...