When it comes to Chicago politics, it’s possible we ain’t seen nothing yet from the Obama White House. For the past year Obama’s enjoyed a large majority in the House and the Senate. He’s worried about losing that sixtieth vote, and he’s not the type to take this sort of thing lying down.
Politico: President Barack Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Democrats lose Tuesday’s special Senate election in Massachusetts, close advisers say.
“This is not a moment that causes the president or anybody who works for him to express any doubt,” a senior administration official said. “It more reinforces the conviction to fight hard.”
A defeat by Martha Coakley for the seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy would be embarrassing for the party — and potentially debilitating, since Democrats will lose their filibuster-proof, 60-vote hold on the Senate.
A potential casualty: the health care bill that was to be the crowning achievement of the president’s first year in office.
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“The response will not be to do incremental things and try to salvage a few seats in the fall,” a presidential adviser said. “The best political route also happens to be the boldest rhetorical route, which is to go out and fight and let the chips fall where they may. We can say, ‘At least we fought for these things, and the Republicans said no.’”
[...]Perceptions among the pundit class would also be brutal. An upset by Republican Scott Brown would be covered in many quarters as a repudiation of Obama, especially after Obama’s last-ditch campaign appearance with Coakley 36 hours before the polls opened.
But the president’s advisers plan to spin it as a validation of the underdog arguments that fueled Obama’s insurgent candidacy.
“The painstaking campaign for change over two years in 2007 and 2008 has become a painstaking effort in the White House, too,” the official said. “The old habits of Washington aren’t going away easy.”
The White House rallying cry, according to one Obama confidant, will be, “Buckle up — let’s get some stuff done.” [Emphasis mine.]
Will they get stuff done by bringing a gun to the fight?
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So I guess today’s Democrat politics will be self defining. We’re dealing with scofflaws, bullies, narcissists and liars. Expect the worst, be surprised by nothing.
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This clown from lefty La-la-land is self-destructing even faster than I expected. I’m from Chicago and am familiar with the arrogant machine neanderthals like Emanuel and Axelrod, but thought Barack, a Chi-town political hack [with a bit of urbane polish], might avoid a barracking, as the Brits put it. Of course, if his incremental socialist creep is halted in MA, the Marxist JournoList Eastern Europeans and their mascot Andy Sullivan will invent preposterous excuses and somehow “blame” Coakley’s loss on GWB.
Now Obambi’s going to take on the American people, who are starting to see him as the puffed up darling of the statist elites and chattering classes that I saw him as from the start. Lotsa luck with pumping up the rhetoric and hope you have all sorts of teleprompter problems, ONE-TERMER!
Obambi has to do something about foreign policy besides appeasing Chavez and Putin and Ahmadinnerjacket and stop doubling the deficit every six months. He should try that instead of more rhetoric.
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Lack of self-awareness is one sure way to produce monumental failure- and what “battle” experience does Obama have, anyway? Everything’s been handed to him on a damn plate his whole life.
That’s like my scheduling a fight in Vegas with Evander Holyfield, and when the place the odds at 17,000 to one, I vow to “fight to the end”… as the crowd laughs their butts off.
Dear Leader is a trash-talking Bolshevik punk, little more… keep digging, stoopid
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There must be some Foreign head of state all bare bottomed just off camera, the One’s ass kissing pucker is a dead giveaway.
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