Hope you can tune in! I’ll be on a panel hosted by Gregg Jarrett discussing a staff change at the White House indicating their panic at losing Senate Democrats because of ObamaCare. Their new focus includes pushing for support from the Dems on so-called Climate Change and, of course, amnesty.
Considering so many Senate Democrats are at risk of losing their jobs because of supporting ObamaCare, the notion that they would somehow agree to throw their careers out the window in order to make Obama happy is a stretch, to put it mildly.
Katie Beirne Fallon, a former top staffer to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), will be named White House Legislative Affairs director – a move intended to shore up a Hill operation that has long needed stronger leadership in the view of many congressional Democrats, POLITICO has learned.
Fallon, a deputy communications director who has been working in the West Wing only since the late summer, will replace the well-liked but little-known Miguel Rodriguez, a longtime Obama staffer who was appointed to guide the office through the post-election transition period…
Fallon will spend the next few weeks meeting with members in both houses and will be tasked with pushing Obama’s climate change plans, overseeing the immigration reform push and, crucially, ensuring a better flow of communication around Affordable Care Act messaging, a major problem during the first weeks of the rollout.
Obama is underwater on every issue except terrorism. This includes the American people rejecting his immigration and ‘climate change’ agenda. I have a feeling the White House is regretting taking Congressional Democrats for granted. I predict he’s also going to find out that no, Senate Democrats are not going to toss their careers simply because Obama asks them to.
I’ll end with a point about the irony of Obama’s position: He needs Democrats to keep control of the Senate in 2014 so he’s not a complete Lame Duck for the last 2 years of his presidency. In order to get re-elected, he needs to encourage Senate Democrats to reject his climate change/amnesty/ObamaCare agenda. If that’s successful, then they could aggressively pursue those issues in 2015 & 16.
Will Obama do this? No, because he wants what he wants and he wants it now. Just like with ObamaCare, he will not do the right thing (delay), he just wants it now because he thinks it makes him look good, and yet has no idea what governing really is. Obama has never done the right thing, he’s only does what satisfies his Malignant Narcissism, and he’ll operate the same way here. Some think Podesta entering the WH will change that. No it won’t. It’s too little too late, and Obama is in full Narcissistic Collapse. He would never allow a rejection of himself and his agenda even if it meant victory in the long run.
Tammy was awesome and looked awesome too, :-). I’m glad Gregg gave her a chance to make her points and have the final word.
What Chuck said 🙂
Funny, though, how the Dem Talking Head kept saying how Obama needs to “get his hands dirty.” Actually, his hands are already quite dirty: ODeathCare, Benghazi, IRS etc. etc.