White House officials are preparing for Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to announce on Friday, as Congress leaves to go on the campaign trail, that he is leaving his post to run for mayor of Chicago.

Rahmbo’s likely exit is not a surprise.  His mayoral aspirations are no secret.

Longtime Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s announced earlier this month that he would not seek reelection.

The former Chicagoan is not exactly known for being shy.  Emanuel said in April to Charlie Rose:

One day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago. … That’s always been an aspiration of mine, even when I was in the House of Representatives

When Daley announced that he was leaving, Chicago Democrats quickly began angling to replace him, pestering Emanuel to make a decision on his White House position soon, including Barack Hussein Obama himself (mm mmm mmmm).

Obama graciously said that Emanuel would make an “excellent” and “terrific” mayor, but has not said whether he will endorse him yet.

Emanuel has to declare his intent to enter the race by Nov. 22, the filing deadline in Chicago. Candidates need to collect 12,500 signatures by that day to qualify for a Feb. 22, 2011 Democratic primary. Rahmbo showed up at the White House with a reputation and political identity built as a feisty four-term former congressman from Illinois, a veteran of the Clinton administration, and a close Obama political ally from the president’s early days in Chicago.

Emanuel brought the knowledge of where the bodies are buried up on Capitol Hill to the White House when he started in January 2009, as well as a sense of loyalty to the president, who had been in his inner circle for years.

Sources close to Emanuel say that the decision on whether to run for mayor has not been easy for him, because  uprooting his wife Amy and three children for the second time in as many years weighed heavily on him.

Emanuel put off his original decision to give up his seat in Congress and run the White House staff.   At the time, Emanuel wanted to be the first Jewish speaker of the House, an accomplishment that now seems more likely to be achieved by Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.

After a lot of nudging by then President-elect Obama, Emanuel decided to join the administration, where he has remained for 21 months.

During his time in the West Wing, Emanuel helped guide the health care act through Congress, pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and pass financial regulation.

Gee, thanks, Rahmbo.

While others in the White House, like senior adviser David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, are full-speed ahead Progressives, Rahmbo was the one with the most realist view of Washington politics.   Many progressives and liberals remain angry with him for not pushing harder, or at all, for a public option in the health care legislation, or for criminal trials for Guantanamo defendants linked to the 9/11 attacks.

Rahmbo knew that Americans do not support those ideas.

Rahmbo’s Chicago-bred political style often clashed with that of the pointy-headed professional academicians that Obama has filled his administration with.

Well-known for his brash-to-the-point-of-being-a-jerk personality, Rahmbo begins each day before sunrise, often by swimming a mile, and is perhaps the hardest worker in the White House, where the rest of the administration, including Scooter, saunter in at 9:30 a.m.

Ryan Lizza described Rahmbo this way in an article for The New Yorker:

He is a political John McEnroe, known for both his mercurial temperament and his tactical brilliance. In the same conversation, he can be wonkish and thoughtful, blunt and profane. (When Emanuel was a teen-ager, he lost half of his right middle finger, after cutting it on a meat slicer—an accident, Obama once joked, that “rendered him practically mute.”) And, like McEnroe, Emanuel seems to employ his volcanic moments for effect, intimidating opponents and referees alike but never quite losing himself in the midst of battle. “I’ve seen Rahm scream at a candidate for office one moment and then quickly send him a cheesecake,” Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic representative from Maryland, and a friend of Emanuel’s, told me.

As Rahm sometimes jokes, if it’s Saturday, there’s just two more full workdays until Monday.

With just five weeks left for the White House  to make a difference leading up to the worst Midterm Political Massacre in American History, the most recent ABC/Washington Post poll from early September shows the president’s approval ratings at 46 percent, with a 52 percent disapproval rate.

Other Liberal polling services show Obama at 42 % Approval.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met secretly with Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan and members of the New Black Panther Party Tuesday at the Warwick Hotel on West 54th Street.

The meeting of these “brothers in Islam” took place in a banquet room, where the fiery leaders presumably exchanged theories on what’s wrong with the world.

I guess this means Obama and Ahmedinejad have mutual “friends”.

Farrakhan, after all, is the same guy who went around proclaiming Scooter is the “messiah”.

At a youth rally  in February 2008 in San Diego, Calypso Louie said:

You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.

Remember when Obama was hangin’ with his home boys at a barbecue during Memorial Day weekend?

An interesting stand-off happened while Scooter was partyin’ down, between followers of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on one side and members of the press and the U.S. Secret Service guarding the president on the other.

Not far from Obama’s home in the Kenwood/Hyde Park neighborhood, Obama’s long-time friend Marty Nesbitt lives across the street from the ornate yellow-gold home where “Calypso Louie” Farrakhan lives.

When Obama has brought his family over to Nesbitt’s home the last two years, the press pool bus parks near Farrakhan’s house. This usually does not cause a problem, but Saturday night, there was almost a throwdown on Woodlawn Avenue.

As a dozen reporters and photographers following Obama stood on the sidewalk in front of Farrakhan’s home, someone’s foot touched the publicly owned curbside grass.

Like a flash, a polite man in jeans and T-Shirt came out of the compound to ask the press to stay off the grass.   He began pacing and talking on his cell phone.  He went inside the mansion’s black wrought iron fence, crossed the well-landscaped yard, lifted a water bucket behind rose bushes and retrieved a walkie-talkie. The reporters heard him referring to “the CIA.”  Evidently, this paranoid genius did not realize that the Secret Service guards the president, not the CIA.

He then went to the secret service agent watching the press and asked him to move the van and its occupants.

“How is this a security breach?” the agent asked. He asked if the house was government property.  Since Obama ascended to the throne, err, presidency, neighbors all over Hyde Park and Kenwood have become accustomed to dealing with streets being blocked off and having to show ID to approach their own homes .

The Fruit of Islam member said something else and at that point the agent stuck out his hand to shake hands and introduced himself as Secret Service. He added, “Sir, I can assure you that we will do nothing to interfere with whatever is going on in there.”

The Farrakhan guard paced again and talked on his cell phone, walkie-talkie in the other hand.  Three more men in T-Shirts reading “Wide or Die!’’ joined the man from the Nation of Islam.  A reporter asked one of the men if this was Farrakhan’s house. The man just glared back.  Asked again, he said, “I don’t have no comment.”

Eventually, a dozen Fruit of Islam members made the scene.   As each casually dressed man arrived, he exchanged elaborate handshake/hug/double air-kisses with others. Two of them walked by a reporter, chanting “Islam.”

The men filmed and photographed the reporters, the van and its license plates with their cell phones.

One of the guards came and stood close to reporters and the secret service agent.  The secret service agent asked if he could help him.  The man did not answer the agent. He politely asked  him again.  The guard said, “No.”  The agent said, “Secret Service, please move away from this group of people.”

The Fruit of Islam member complied.

The Secret Service agent asked the reporters to go back into the press bus, and they did.

Before they did, some of them asked the Nation of Islam crowd if they could use the rest room in Farrakahn’s home.

They were met with silence.

A Baptist minister from Detroit named Rev. Gary Hunter, who writes and blogs for the Detroit Times, told reporter Jackie Calmes of the New York Times that he personally called Calypso Louie and his son and asked them to have their Private Army(the Fruit) stand down: “I told him you were good people . . . He said he didn’t know you all were just waiting for the president.’’

Yeah, right.  You had better believe Farrakhan knew exactly what was going on.

And, about those upstanding citizens from the New Black Panther Party…

AG Eric Holder  dismissed default judgments against the Philly NBPP thugs who menaced voters and poll workers on Election Day.

Who intervened? What parties inside and outside DOJ got involved? And why?

Despite warnings from the DOJ, last Friday federal prosecutor Christopher Coates testified before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, appearing, as Chairman Gerald Reynolds put it, “at great personal risk to himself.”

Coates’ testimony verified testimony given by fellow voting-rights prosecutor J. Christian Adams, backing up the charge that political appointees in the Obama administration intentionally made the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party go away.

The prosecutor, Christopher Coates, also said the downgrading of the case against the New Black Panther Party was evidence of a Justice Department culture which discouraged “race neutral” enforcement of civil rights laws, frowned on prosecuting minority perpetrators and folded under pressure from black and Latino rights groups. Coates told the panel that the culture intensified in 2009 – and led to his demotion from leading the voting rights division – after President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder took office.

“They have not pursued the goal of equal protection of the law for all people,” he said.

As I explored in my 4 part series:  The Great Disconnect, President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) has quite and interesting past, and has a lot of connections, some of which have yet to see the light of day. 

Remember, when Obama said that he wanted to sit across the negotiations table from Ahmadinejad?  I wonder who suggested that?

On the cusp of the worst Midterm defeat in American History, Democrats abandoned plans to vote before Election Day on extending Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class while eliminating them for better-off Americans.

So, what happens now?  Do these idiots come back after the Midterms and try to ram through the largest tax increase evah during their lame duck session?

If they don’t pass legislation by Dec. 31, the expiration date of the cuts, tax rates would rise not only on income, but also on estates, capital gains and dividends. Important corporate tax credits and relief from the Alternative Minimum Tax also are up for renewal.

President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him) and his Congressional sycophants have made their proposed middle-class tax breaks the focal point of their midterm campaign strategy.With the Democrats wimping out, Republicans can rightly charge that the oppostition party has failed to prevent taxes from rising for almost everyone.

Congressmen from both parties actually say that they want to extend the Bush Tax Cuts for at least a year or two.  Their problem is, Obama could still veto such a bill.

Democrat lawmakers put on a mask of sadness Thursday to hide their relief concerning the postponement.

Sen. Richard Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat said:

The reality is, we are not going to pass what needs to be passed to change this, either in the Senate or in the House, before the election.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said Thursday the House wouldn’t schedule a vote on taxes if the Senate didn’t. 

So, there!   Na, na, na, na.   

Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) said that the first part of next week would be taken up with debate over a bill seeking to limit the outsourcing of jobs. Then the Senate would turn to a bill to fund the government until after elections.

At this point, neither the House nor the Senate is expected to stay in session past next week.

Republicans said Democrats hadn’t yet written a tax bill on which lawmakers could vote, because of disagreement among Democratic members.

GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said:

This delay is irresponsible and reckless. It’s no wonder the American people are fed up with the leadership of Congress. Every family in America faces a major tax increase next year because the Senate majority leader has failed to take action to prevent it.

Democratic leaders, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Mr. Reid, came up with the strategy of voting on the permanent extension as a way of casting Democrats as the party of the middle class, in contrast with Republicans’ support for relief for the Americans who actually create businesses and hire other Americans.

The plan quickly ran into opposition from “Moderate” Democrats in the House and Senate, scared that they will wind up out on the street after the Midterms.

If you believe the Democrats are truly concerned about anything at this point but saving their phony baloney jobs, I’ll give you a free subscription to Obama’s new on-line self-help course:  How to Become U.S. President and Leave No Documented History.

For instance, on February 23, 2010, Representative Chaka Fattah (D – PA) referred HR 4646 to the House Appropriations Committee.  Here’s a summary of this gem of an idea:

Debt Free America Act – States as purposes of this Act the raising of sufficient revenue from a fee on transactions to eliminate the national debt within seven years and the phasing out of the individual income tax. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a 1% fee, offset by a corresponding nonrefundable income tax credit, on transactions that use a payment instrument, including any check, cash, credit card, transfer of stock, bonds, or other financial instrument. Defines “transaction” to include retail and wholesale sales, purchases of intermediate goods, and financial and intangible transactions. Establishes in the legislative branch the Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action to review the fiscal imbalance of the federal government and make recommendations to improve such imbalance. Provides for expedited consideration by Congress of Task Force recommendations. Repeals after 2017 the individual income tax, refundable and nonrefundable personal tax credits, and the alternative minimum tax (AMT) on individuals. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prioritize the repayment of the national debt to protect the fiscal stability of the United States; and (2) study and report to Congress on the implementation of this Act.

 

This morning the Republican Party has formally unveiled, at a Virginia Hardware store, their Pledge to America.

Of course, this 21 page document is in homage to The Contract With America, drawn up by Republicans for the 1994  Midterm Elections that swept their party into power.  It’s introduction was very impressive:

As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives.

That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print.

This year’s election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public’s money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.

Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act “with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.” To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.

The Pledge’s introduction is pretty impressive, also. 

The need for urgent action to repair our economy and reclaim our government for the people cannot be overstated…

…With this document, we pledge to dedicate ourselves to the task of reconnecting our highest aspirations to the permanent truths of our founding by keeping faith with the values our nation was founded on, the principles we stand for, and the priorities of our people. This is our Pledge to America.

Here are some quick bullet points from the document:

Jobs:

– Stop job-killing tax hikes

– Allow small businesses to take a tax deduction equal to 20 percent of their income

– Require congressional approval for any new federal regulation that would add to the deficit

– Repeal small business mandates in the new health care law.

Cutting Spending:

– Repeal and Replace health care

– Roll back non-discretionary spending to 2008 levels before TARP and stimulus (will save $100 billion in first year alone)

– Establish strict budget caps to limit federal spending going forward

– Cancel all future TARP payments and reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Reforming Congress:

– Will require that every bill have a citation of constitutional authority

– Give members at least 3 days to read bills before a vote

Defense:

– Provide resources to troops

– Fund missile defense

– Enforce sanctions in Iran

There is only a slight whiff of deja vu’ in the air.  There are marked differences between The Contract and The Pledge.

The Contract included “The Fiscal Responsibility Act”.  This imposed a Constitutional Amendment requiring a balanced budget . It also included the “Personal Responsibility Act,” otherwise known as welfare reform. Perhaps the most-contentious part of The Contract, this proviso slashed welfare spending and prohibited assistance payments to teen mothers. Opponents railed against this plan, calling it “Draconian.”

Republicans showcased their legislative compact not on the Capitol steps, but 45-minutes away at a lumber warehouse in northern Virginia. No GOP House contenders were wandering about seeking photo ops among the two-by-fours and six-by-eights.  Instead, a group of 12 Incumbent House Republicans laid out a broad policy agenda culled from their “America Speaking Out” program. America Speaking Out was a dialogue House Republicans engineered to solicit ideas from the public about policy solutions.

There was no pomp and circumstance as with the signing of The Contract. Only a press conference and a conversation with small business owners. The “Pledge” is comprised of specifics on health care, the economy, taxes, Congressional operations and national security. But the agenda is not distilled into a Constitution-inspired document like the one 16 years ago.

It seems that the Republican Party establishment wants to embrace the elements of a Contract With America-esque roll-out. But not go too far. They want to draw comparisons between the electoral anxiety of 1994 with the discord of today. But the similarities stop there.

Today’s Republican Establishment seems to be having a problem remembering what made the Reagan Revolution the nation-changing force that it was.  Reagan Conservatism not only embraced fiscal responsibility but also carried an emphasis on personal rights and responsibility based on the Judeo-Christian system that American was founded on.  The emergence of the Tea Party Movement is a reminder of the success of Reagan Conservatism.  If today’s Republican Party remembers that, they will be successful.  If all this is just a stage show to mask an elitist ideology, the American public will reject them, in the same manner that they are rejecting the Progressives that they are campaigning against.  The Republican Party needs to remember Proverbs 29:23, scripture which the President and his Progressive minions forgot a long time ago:

Arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.

It was a beautiful fall afternoon and the University of Illinois Fighting Illini were taking the field for their first home game of the college football season.  Our national anthem was peformed and there was a flyby of American jets roaring over the top of the stadium.   Over 15,000 college kids, parents, and supporters started chanting USA! USA!  Thinking about it gives you the chills, doesn’t it?  Not this nimrod:  University of Illinois “Academic Professional” (And I use the term loosely) David Greene whined:

The vast majority of 9/11 observances in this country cannot be seen as politically neutral events. Implicit in their nature are the notions that lives lost at the World Trade Center are more valuable than lives lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere; that the motives of the 9/11 attackers had nothing to do with genuine grievances in the Islamic world regarding American imperialism; and that the U.S. has been justified in the subsequent killing of hundreds of thousands in so-called retaliation.

The observance at Saturday’s football game was no different. A moment of silence was followed by a military airplane flyover; in between, Block-I students chanted “USA, USA.” This was neither patriotism nor remembrance in any justifiable sense, but politicization, militarism, propaganda and bellicosity. The University is a public institution that encompasses the political views of all, not just the most (falsely) “patriotic.” Athletic planners should cease such exploitation for political purposes. They might at least consider how most Muslim students, American or otherwise, would respond to this nativist display; or better, Muslims and others that live their lives under the threat of our planes, drones and soldiers.

The overwhelmingly white, privileged, Block-I students should be ashamed of their obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk chant, while poverty-drafted members of their cohort fight and die in illegal and immoral wars for the control of oil. University administrators need to eliminate from all events such “patriotic” observances, which in this country cannot be separated from implicit justifications for state-sponsored killing.

And this invertebrate is teaching American college students.   Jellyfish like this individual define normal American Patriotism as Jingoism:  : extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.

“Professor” Greene exhibits the symptoms of a disease that I’ve noticed that most of the Far Left exhibit:  Narcissistic-Reality-Denial-Over-Educated-Beyond-Their-Intelligence Syndrome.  The patient tends to rely on his self-assumed superior intellect, denying the reality of the world around him to the point of forsaking both his allegiance to and concern for the people of the country that has provided him with both his livelihood and his well-being.

Here’s an example of someone with this syndrome from Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s War.  

Woodward’s book portrays Obama and the White House as barraged by warnings about the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and confronted with the difficulty in preventing them. During an interview with Woodward in July, Obama said:

We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.

Notice how the patient distances himself from the 3,000 innocent lives lost, in an effort to boost his own self-esteem.

This syndrome seems to be extremely pernicious in academic and political figures. The patient actually believes that he is an expert on everything, to the point where he can write and distribute instructional theses to seasoned professionals while lecturing them in a didactic manner.

In this patient’s case, frustrated with his military commanders for consistently offering only options that required significantly more troops, Obama came up with his own strategy, dictating a classified six-page “terms sheet” that sought to limit U.S. involvement, Woodward reports.

Per Woodward’s meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, the president avoided talk of victory as he described his objectives.

Obama told White House aides as he laid out his reasons for adding 30,000 troops in a short-term escalation:

This needs to be a plan about how we’re going to hand it off and get out of Afghanistan.  Everything we’re doing has to be focused on how we’re going to get to the point where we can reduce our footprint. It’s in our national security interest. There cannot be any wiggle room.

Obama rejected the military’s request for 40,000 troops.  He thought that expanding troops would lead to America being stuck in Afghanistan for a very long time.  Obama told Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a meeting on Oct. 26, 2009:

I’m not doing 10 years.  I’m not doing long-term nation-building. I am not spending a trillion dollars.

This syndrome causes patients to contradict themselves once they have committed others’  lives to a cause or mission.  It is all a part of the denial of reality, along with a self-imposed aloofness caused by feelings of superiority.

The only treatment for Narcissistic-Reality-Denial-Over-Educated-Beyond-Their-Intelligence Syndrome at this time is “refudiation” and isolation.  The people who are being affected by these individuals must, in a clear and over-whelming  manner, let the patient know that they do not accept their attitude or actions and put them in a “time-out”.  November 2nd, 2010 is the day scheduled for the start of this treatment.

President Barack Hussein Obama  (mm mmm mmmm) did not have a very good day yesterday, as he appeared at a Wall Street “Townhall” and was actually expected to answer tough questions about his policies after the worst U.S. recession since the 1930s was declared over by his inept administration.

As audience members at the meeting told him that they were fed up with and disappointed in his administration, and one woman said she was “exhausted” from defending him, Obama told them that he understood that they were frustrated.

Obama told the meeting, hosted by CNBC television (managed by one of his closest personal advisers, Jeffrey Immelt):

Even though economists (on his payroll) may say the recession officially ended last year, obviously for the millions of people who are still out of work … it is still very real for them.

Obama’s Democrats are scheduled to be swept out of power by an electoral tidal wave in November congressional elections by voters worried by U.S. unemployment, stuck near 10 percent, and by the horrible state of the economy.

The first lady to apporach the audience microphone explained to Obama the way that the cow ate the cabbage:

I’m one of your middle class Americans. And quite frankly I’m exhausted. I’m exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now.

A visibly shaken Obama refrained from having a tantrum, and instead argued that the measures he had undertaken since taking office in January 2009 were slowly pulling the country back to health.

Yeah, Scooter.  At this rate, we ought to be there by the year 10, 058.

The leader of the Regime pontificated:

My goal here is not to try to convince you that everything’s where it needs to be — it’s not. That’s why I ran for president. But what I am saying is … that we’re moving in the right direction.

Right direction?  For what?

The National Bureau of Economic Research, the official arbiter of the U.S. business cycle, said on Monday the longest downturn since the Great Depression ended in June 2009.

I did not know that the government allowed drinking on the job.

Reality disagrees.  Recovery has remained largely below the level needed to quickly replace the millions of jobs lost in the recession, and recent economic indicators show marginal growth at best in the past couple of months.

According to Scooter, the deep economic hole that America is in is NOT HIS FAULT.  I’m shocked:

Something that took 10 years to create is going to take a little more time to solve.

Polls are now suggesting that Republicans may well capture the U.S. House of Representatives and have an outside shot at the Senate.

All 435 seats in the House and 37 of the 100 Senate seats are up for grabs in the Midterms.

With his poll numbers tanking rapidly, Obama’s disillusioned supported warned him that he was losing the communications battle with Republicans and urged him to fight back.

The Kool-aid seemed to be losing its flavor for a small business owner from Pennsylvania:

I need you to help us understand how you can regain the political center, because you’re losing the war of sound bites. You’re losing the media cycles.

According to pollster Cliff Young of market research firm Ipsos, Obama has a very slim chance of changing the narrative about the economy in time for the November election:

It doesn’t matter what he says right now. People have tuned out in some ways because they are not feeling the positive impact in daily life.

Obama told Americans that the $814 billion emergency spending bill in February 2009, known as the Porkulous Bill would boost economic growth. It has failed spectacularly.  Additional spending attempts by Obama  to use fiscal policy (i.e., our tax money) to try to jumpstart the economy have been blocked by Republican lawmakers concerned about the record U.S. budget deficit, predicted to hit $1.47 trillion this year.

The administration wants to spend a further $180 billion over the next 10 years to renew U.S. infrastructure, boost research and encourage corporate investment.

Obama also says that he wants to help consumer spending by making Bush-era tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 a year permanent, while allowing them to rise on richer Americans. The problem with that is that no American was ever hired by a poor person.  Republicans want the tax cuts extended for everyone.

The majority of the American business community feel that Obama is vilifying them and this sense of outrage is shared on Wall Street, which was dead-set against the political pandering shake-up of financial regulations that became law earlier this year.

One man who runs a hedge fund addressed Obama at the Townhall meeting yesterday:

I represent the Wall Street community.  We have felt like a pinata. Maybe you don’t feel like you’re whacking us with a stick, but we certainly feel like we’ve been whacked with a stick.

This was an understatement.  Hard-working Americans feel like a baseball hit by Albert Pujols, thanks to this president, his inept administration, and his sycophants taking up space in what might possibly be the worst Congress in American history.  November 2nd will be our turn at bat and the American people are going to hit it out of the park.

 President Barack Hussein Obama’s  (peace be unto him) political advisers, desperately trying to avoid the Conservative political tidal wave that is scheduled to wipe out the Democratic Party in the Midterm elections, are floating a bunch of half-baked ideas, including national advertisements, in an attempt to cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists.

White House and Congressional Democratic strategists are frantically looking for some way to energize dispirited Democratic voters over the coming six weeks, in hopes of minimizing the party’s losses and keeping control of the House and Senate.  The “smartest people in the room” believe that they see an opportunity for exploitation after a string of Tea Party successes split Republicans in a number of states, culminating last week with developments that scrambled Senate races in Delaware and Alaska.

According to one anonymous Democratic strategist:

We need to get out the message that it’s now really dangerous to re-empower the Republican Party.

Democrats are a house divided unto themselves. The party’s House and Senate campaign committees don’t want to do anything that calls attention to high unemployment and the drop in Obama’s popularity  Endangered Congressional candidates want to grab any money that is out there for their localized campaigns.

Late Sunday night, White House advisers denied that a national ad campaign was being planned:

Senior Obama Adviser David Axlerod said:

There’s been no discussion of such a thing at the White House or the Democratic National Committee.

The Democrats that want to do it say that a national ad campaign, most likely on cable television, would complement those individual campaigns and give Democrats a chance to redefine the stakes. The afore-mentioned Democratic strategist said voters did not now see much threat to them from a Republican takeover of Congress, even though some Tea Party-backed candidates and other Republicans have taken positions that many (Liberal and RINO) voters consider extreme, like shutting down the government to get their way, privatizing Social Security and Medicare and ending unemployment insurance.

So far, Scooter has largely limited his campaigning to fundraisers and small events. That will change soon as he tries (a last-ditch attempt) to rally the flagging faithful, officials said.

To try to re-capture the messianic allure he had for younger voters who supported him in 2008, Mr. Obama will hold four big campaign-style rallies, the first Sept. 28 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, with satellite transmission to campuses in other states. The later rallies will be in Ohio, Philadelphia and Las Vegas. He also will send e-mail and record robocalls to spur voters, and conduct a national “town hall” Webcast in October.

Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, said:

These events are about activating the Obama grass roots to help organizationally in terms of volunteers for get-out-the-vote efforts.  We’re not going to get all the 2008 Obama voters out. We may not get most of them. But in close races, it can be decisive.

Obama will also step up his efforts to draw contrasts between the parties, in particular by pounding away on his call for extending the expiring Bush-era tax cuts, except for “millionaires and billionaires.” You know, the people that actually create jobs.  Republicans want the tax cuts extended for people of all income levels, not just incomes below $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for families, as the president has proposed.

Republicans strategists remain steadfast in their belief that they will make big gains in November, even as the establishment states their belief that they are unlikely to win the Senate race in Delaware after the victory in the Republican primary there of Christine O’Donnell, a Tea Party-backed candidate, over Representative Michael N. Castle, a professional “moderate” Republican, of the the “reach-across-the-aisle” variety.  Also last week, Alaska’s Senate race became convoluted when Senator Lisa Murkowski, who lost the Republican nomination to a Tea Party adherent, Jeff Miller, mounted a write-in candidacy against him, saying:

Alaska is not fair game for outside extremists.

John Weaver, a Republican Party consultant said:

While we may have a handful of nominees out of the mainstream, the American people have come to the conclusion this administration and this Congress are out of the mainstream.

Remember 1994?   Democrats were in power and became similarly confident when Republican primaries yielded candidates that all the “experts” said were too far right for the general election. Yet the tidal wave against Democrats that year was strong enough to carry those newcomers into office and put Republicans in control of Congress for the first time in 40 years.

With the exception of Ms. O’Donnell in Delaware, Republican nominees that Democrats like to whine about as extremists, including in Senate races in Nevada, Colorado, Kentucky and even blue-state Connecticut, are even with their Democratic rivals in polls or ahead.

And even as Obama and his minions feverishly scurry about in the confines of the White House situation room, trying to figure out a strategy for the final Midterm campaign push, advisers are having to cope with the expected exit of the chief of staff, Rahm Rahmbo Emanuel, to run for mayor of Chicago. Rahmbo, who as a member of Congress helped engineer the Democratic takeover of the House in 2006, is among his party’s foremost strategists when it comes to Congressional elections.

Peter M. Rouse (who?), one of Mr. Obama’s closest advisers, has assumed additional responsibilities. Rouse, who is intensely private, does not want the high-profile job of chief of staff; instead he is helping Scooter vet names. Leading candidates are said to be Thomas E. Donilon, the deputy national security adviser, and Robert Bauer, the White House counsel.

On top of the concerns about Rahmbo leaving,  the strategy discussions with Congressional Democrats come after 21 months of battles over the legislation that Obama has railroaded through against the wishes of the American people.

Democrats on Capitol Hill are complaining that Obama aides, including  David Axelrod, and Jim Messina, the deputy chief of staff, do not consult with them enough and are more concerned with positioning Mr. Obama for his 2012 reelection race than with re-electing Democrats now.

Uh oh.  Trouble in paradise.

At the Democratic National Committee, aides already have started work on a database to link the most controversial statements of the Tea Party-backed candidates to possible Republican presidential aspirants.

The database will point out, for example, that Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney are supporting the Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada, Sharron Angle, who once said that victims of rape should make “what was really a lemon situation into lemonade,” and Ms. O’Donnell, who has said that having women in the service academies “cripples the readiness of our defense.”

Mitt? Republicans don’t even know from day-to-day where he stands on the issues.  How can the Dems?

The tactic of linking potential Republican rivals to such statements was already in evidence last week. After Ms. O’Donnell’s victory, a party spokesman told reporters:

The fact that Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin would put their name behind a candidate that believes women who serve our country ‘cripple the readiness of our defense’ make them unfit to be commander-in-chief.

Meanwhile, on Conservative websites, you can read the ramblings of those who claim to be loyal Republicans, savage those Tea Party candidates who dared to win their primaries over their “moderate, establishment” opponents. 

These “‘concerned” individuals are about as helpful to the cause of Conservative victory in the Midterm elections as the Vichy French were to the liberation of France in World War II.