An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh and his listeners

[righteousmomma]

Printalect is part of a larger company in New Bern. They have been a ballot printing business for years and family owned.

Our current Democrat governor is from that area and a friend of the owner. Like I said earlier that part of NC in particular is yellow dog Democrat. I don't think voting fraud would come from them though - maybe some innate preferences personally that the owners have contributed too but not fraud.

 

 

The machines are made by Election Systems & Software, of Omaha, Neb.

 

 

I think we need to keep digging.

[Rheo]

Ok, reading further at Hillbuzz

 

The reason this scandal is going to explode and be “bigger than Watergate” and could destroy the Democrats is because it ties directly into activities of the Obama campaign in 2008 — where a coordinated voter fraud and intimidation effort was run with ACORN, the SEIU, and the Black Panthers to elect Obama at all costs, using race as a weapon.

 

I don't think this is just about exposing Obama, we knew most of this. This is their desire to burn the Democrat party to the ground. As Obama is now the brand of the democrat party, the "exposure", will cause dems to leave the party in droves. I sure do hope there is proof that shows he ordered these things done.

This is all coming from some poster who says he has a Washington insider telling him things. Hillbuzz doubts that, as do I. Oh well, will still be interesting to see how it plays out and if it makes a hill of beans difference to those that haven't paid attention until now.

[Rheo]

Printalect is part of a larger company in New Bern. They have been a ballot printing business for years and family owned.

Our current Democrat governor is from that area and a friend of the owner. Like I said earlier that part of NC in particular is yellow dog Democrat. I don't think voting fraud would come from them though - maybe some innate preferences personally that the owners have contributed too but not fraud.

 

 

The machines are made by Election Systems & Software, of Omaha, Neb.

 

 

I think we need to keep digging.

Newsobserver has been following the election corruption/Printelect/ES&S, etc in NC and is pretty good.

I think there is something there and digging is always fun.

[Rheo]

Ok, we have

 

Race Aspect

Black Panthers

Chris Coates testimony and being reassigned to SC

Coates just mentioned Robin Carnahan’s refusal to comply with mandate that dead people be stricken from the voter rolls. She was Sec of State in MO. Not sure how that ties in, but as Coates mentioned her in testimony..will put it here.

Missouri voters re-elected her with more votes than any other statewide candidate in Missouri history in her 2008 re-election.

1st charge of racism lobbed at Bill Clinton in SC primary

30% of population is A-A.

Shirley Shirrod

John Boyd of the National Black Farmers Association

Pigsford Settlement scam

DOJ/Eric Holder/Civil Rights Division

 

 

Voter Fraud

Machines/Ballots

Printelect

Election Systems & Software

Acorn

Organizing for America

SEIU

HAVA (part of DOJ, Civil Rights Division) $48.5 million on machines

Phillipines connection?

Teletech Telesystems, Inc

 

 

 

SC Voting Info

Excerpts from the March 2007 State Election Commission minutes, Ms. Andino reported that "Dan Rather Reports" aired a segment on HDNet critical of electronic voting systems and Election Systems and Software (ES&S). The story also criticized working conditions in a manufacturing plant in the Philippines where iVotronics are assembled. Ms. Andino reported no media inquires had been received as a result of this story.

 

Brian Hancock, Director of Voting Systems Certification at the EAC stated:

"It has come to our attention that Election Systems & Software, Inc (ES&S) may be using a facility in Manila, Philippines to assemble some of its voting systems. As you know, it is a requirement for participants in the Election Assistance Commission's Voting System Testing and Certification Program to disclose the locations of all manufacturing and assembly facilities. Information about the Manila facility was not included in the list of facilities ES&S provided to EAC."

 

The truth is ES&S's contractor in Kansas subcontracted out the production to Teletech Telesystems, Inc. located in Pasay City,Metro Manila,Philippines. The employees used a shake test for quality control. If they picked up the machine and shook it and it didn't rattle, it was sent to the USA, including South Carolina. Once you learn about the manufacturing process, and realize these machines are six years old, it is much easier to understand why so many are unreliable. We shouldn't be surprised our machines are having so many problems.

 

Obviously, the State Election Commission has been put in a difficult position, preferring not to admit we spent the majority of our $48.5 million in HAVA and state funds on a shoddy product to run the most important function in our democracy.

 

Palmetto Project

Log errors-primary 2010(state election committee had reported no malfunctions)

 

 

Names

Elections Director Gary Bartlett (NC)

Owen Andrews--Printelect/ES&S

Melva Basnight Garrison, the Dare County elections director (NC)

Lee Bussell-CEO, Palmetto Project

[Rheo]

Primary Recap

With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Obama had 55 percent of the vote. Clinton was second with 27 percent, followed by Edwards, with 18 percent. Obama's victory capped a heated contest in South Carolina, the first Democratic primary in the South and the first with a largely African-American electorate.

 

Obama, who is hoping to become the the nation's first African-American president, did well with black voters, who made up about half of Saturday's electorate, according to exit polls.

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The state Democratic party estimated that more than 530,000 Democrats turned out for Saturday's primary,

Obama attracted more than 290,000 votes -- nearly matching the total turnout of the 2004 Democratic primary.

 

Other SC primary oddities

Just when it seemed political events in South Carolina couldn’t turn more bizarre, calls are mounting for investigations and for the withdrawal from the Senate race of Alvin Greene, who has become known as the “stealth candidate” after mysteriously becoming the state’s Democratic nominee on Tuesday. (6/10)

“There were some real shenanigans going on in the South Carolina primary,” Mr. Clyburn said on a radio show. “I don’t know if he was a Republican plant; he was someone’s plant.”

If outside forces played a role in Greene’s win, they’ve covered their tracks well so far. The race didn’t seem to tilt based on any last-minute mailing, robocall or word of mouth through established Democratic networks.

 

hmmmm.

 

STATEMENT OF JUDGE VIC RAWL (he was running against Greene)

Earlier today, our campaign filed a protest of last Tuesday’s election results with the South Carolina Democratic Party.

The strange circumstances surrounding Tuesday’s vote require a thorough investigation. For better or worse, this protest process is the only platform currently available for that investigation.

 

And let me be clear: regardless of the outcome of this protest, a full and unblinking investigation of this election and the overall integrity of South Carolina’s election system must go forward. Whether our protest is upheld or not, I intend to bring my full energies to electoral reform well into the future. (6/14)Statement

[Rheo]

Re: Organizing for America

 

Obama's MIA Volunteers-9/10

 

So earlier this year, when the White House gave OFA a whopping $30 million — more than half of the party's entire budget for 2010 — senior Democrats suspected a hidden agenda. Several tell Time that OFA boss David Plouffe, who ran Obama's 2008 campaign, is using the cash to rebuild an army for 2012 under the cover of boosting turnout in 2010. OFA is putting staff into such states as Virginia, North Carolina and Arizona, which have few close statewide races this fall but which are all prime targets in an Obama re-election campaign. "This is totally about 2012," Cook says.

 

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2016973,00.html#ixzz13sbO6N7t

[Rheo]

Ok, for what it is worth, more from Hillbuzz

 

 

I made a few calls today to people on the 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign to find out what they thought could possibly be the South Carolina Mystery. No one wanted to talk about it, because they said it involves race, and what the Obama campaign did to the Clintons in South Carolina to brand them racists and racialize the primary against Hillary.

 

People are still terrified of being called racists or having the Left lob these race bombs at them…so they won’t come anywhere near whatever the Hell it is in South Carolina that’s the heart of the mystery.

 

There’s also this: whatever it is that happened down there is so bad that it could take down the Democrat Party for good, and the Clinton people I talked to don’t want that to happen because Rush Limbaugh is right — Clinton people are indeed of the belief that once Obama is defeated in 2012, the Clintons can rebuild the Democrat Party and resume control over it. Thus, Clinton people want to do enough damage to Obama and the Left so they lose control…but not too much damage because they want to use whatever’s left post-Obama to rebuild the party.

[pinz]

Thanks for the transcript, RM.

 

Local talk radio has been on these issues, WBT 1110 AM. Keith Larson was doing interviews with Alvin Greene on most Monday mornings since the primary. Tara Servatius has been all over the voting irregularities in New Bern.

 

I'll try to keep an ear out and look for podcast links to useful info.

 

Pigford/caucus fraud/voting irregularities are consistent with the behavior of Obama's brownshirt/civilian troops (union thugs, ACORN, MoveOn, etc.). These are all elements of the Dem Party that the Clintons lost ontrol over. It also lends an interesting perspective to Hillary's focus on foreign affairs and her constant overseas travels, absenting herself from turf that is o longer hospitable to her.

[pinz]

Is this article linked here yet?

 

Have no idea how accurate or legitimate it is, but there are a collection of warnings and behind-the-scenes stories at this site.

[Rheo]

Is this article linked here yet?

 

Have no idea how accurate or legitimate it is, but there are a collection of warnings and behind-the-scenes stories at this site.

Ulstermann is the source that Hillbuzz is using. He says he has a source, but hillbuzz is skeptical there is a source. But they do think there may be something there, regardless.

Thanks for the link. Will check it out tomorrow.

Sweet dreams pinz!

[pollyannaish]

Well, It's pretty breathless in tone, but it sure makes for great Halloween reading. SCARY!

[righteousmomma]

While this is probably much ado about nothing in regards to "bringing the O down" here is the latest from HillBuzz:

 

October 31, 2010

Do you live in South Carolina? If so, delurk and help us start getting a handle on the state

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Mystery of Obama South Carolina, South Carolina, Why don't Democrats want South Carolina investigated? |

[40] Comments

 

The next two days are going to be nonstop busy for us — and most people in the political world — but we want to start meeting people who live in South Carolina who could potentially help us with the mystery of why so many people seem to think things Obama did in the leadup to the 2008 South Carolina Democrat primary will be the end of his presidency…and could even put him in prison.

 

Apparently, this is all centered around rural South Carolina.

 

We know almost nothing about the state and need to make allies on the ground there…people who could write regular reports on the politics of the state for us, and who could also become friends who’d help us identify people to interview who would know scoop on the 2008 Democrat primaries in particular.

 

We’re going all-in on this mystery…but we need help. We just don’t, currently, have many South Carolina connections. We need introductions to the people who have the information we need. We have to find good sources in the state.

 

Through six degrees of separation, we know that all of you reading this could in some way direct us to people and information in South Carolina that would blow this mystery wide-open.

 

So, keep chiming in on these threads about South Carolina to tell us what you know about the state…and email us personal introductions if you are someone who wants to help, and could be an anonymous and protected source for us in our investigation.

 

We’re willing to take all the heat for digging into things we were told specifically not to dig into…but we can’t dig very far without your intel.

 

So, help us get started: HillBuzz@gmail.com

[Rheo]

JUSTICE IS DONE

Look for a spate of political appointees at the Department of Justice to jump ship after the mid-term elections, some may site a desire to spend time with their families or to recoup lost income after two years of public service, but most will be looking to avoid being tainted by what many inside the department believe will be a scandal-plagued two years leading up to the 2012 election cycle.

 

While no DOJ sources are willing to go on the record, conversations with several prospective returnees to the private sector indicated that they believe the ongoing scandal related to the Black Panther voter-intimidation case will grow larger and reach beyond the department and into the White House, particularly with Republicans controlling government oversight in the House.

American Spectator

 

Ulsterman

This does not end at the Justice Department - it goes directly to the Oval Office. This is to be the investigation that will lead to Chicago and something "much bigger". More details to come folks - trying to get another interview but it ...may be several days yet. "Sometime after the elections" Another FYI - big Democratic Party post-election strategy meeting has been called for Wed of next week. Pelosi and her crew "frozen out" of meeting. WH staff invited "too listen". The party is removing the "cancer" to "save the patient" and it will "leave a scar". Not sure if mainstream has reported on the meeting yet but according to Insider it is def. going down next week. More to come...

Edited November 1, 2010 by Rheo
added ulsterman quote from Friday

[pinz]

My stars and garters! Take a look at this article.

 

Rush was talking about this today, too. RM, feel free to post the Rush transcripts, if you have them, and we can keep a running log of what is being said and written.

 

At JOM, they point out that Masden is a member of VIPs, the ex-CIA folks, and associates, who, among other things helped to bring us the Plame game.

[SrWoodchuck]

My stars and garters! Take a look at this article.

Rush was talking about this today, too. RM, feel free to post the Rush transcripts, if you have them, and we can keep a running log of what is being said and written.

Pinz! Nice! Go ex-CIA officers!

 

The only person more inept than Obama, has to be Joey Biden. Not since Gerald Ford, would we have a president as goofy & gaffe prone; but withpout the niceness. Just do all this stuff after January, please, as we may have to do an article 25 on Joe, leaving Pelosi next in line of succession. I'd prefer John Boehner.

[righteousmomma]

pinz

Democrat Reaction to Thumping Signals Deep Problem with Obama

November 8, 2010

 

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: There are a couple of themes that have evolved out there, and I'm gonna add a third to it. Pelosi has announced she's gonna run for leader of the Democrats in the House again and a bunch of people are suggesting that she should. I mean how tone deaf do you have to be to insist on keeping not just Pelosi, the same party leadership in the House, they want to keep it, the Democrats are gonna keep it. You just had a 69 seat blowout -- well, 63 seats in the House, it could reach that high, six seats in the Senate, and they want to have the same leadership back?..........

 

They also are saying health care had nothing to do with the loss. That's the big thing...... I hope they continue to think that. They think it's messaging. ..... Well, if they think health care had nothing to do with it, we got a golden opportunity here. The Republicans need to send up to the White House a repeal of the health care law en masse, in toto, every month, send it up every week and make him veto it, make the Democrats defend it. If health care had nothing to do with the reason they lost, make the Democrats defend it. It was all the economy, who's in charge of that? Make them defend all of these things. In other words, if they just had a better message, then this wouldn't have happened, because it wasn't policy.

 

They're out there claiming their policies, I don't care what it was, spending, debt, health care had nothing to do with their shellacking. They're gonna keep the Senate leadership, too, Dingy Harry. Now, if the House losses had nothing to do with Pelosi, what, she had no power? Health care had nothing to do with it? There's a big story in The Politico today, and you can take and analyze this in a whole bunch of different ways. Folks, I always trust my instincts. I read this Politico story today, Obama isolated ahead of 2012, .... The narrative is that health care and Obama and all had nothing to do with the election and the Tea Parties had some role in it and so forth. As I read this I'm wondering if there's a lot more going on in the White House than we know about.

Look at what's just happened here. This is the biggest drubbing since the thirties, the biggest drubbing. This is not insignificant. I think the House leadership, the Democrat leadership in the Senate, I think this narrative to keep that leadership in both houses the same is an attempt to cover up something that is far worse. I think this party knows that it is in far greater trouble in the White House and on down than they want to admit. And I think there are members of the media covering the White House who know it. I think that deep in the bowels of the Democrat Party they realize, some people realize that Obama is an utter disaster and that they're going to have to do something about it. And I think this Politico story, "Obama Isolated Ahead of 2012," is made to look like a hit piece on Obama. I don't think it's a hit piece on Obama per se. I think it is the beginning of sort of setting the table for what might happen, set the foundation for what might happen as the months ahead unfold.

 

Now, I don't know anything. This is just my instincts. .... The thing that has, I think, become clear in their minds is that at the center of this is Obama. Michael Novak has a piece at National Review talking about how the American people made a moral statement in the election. We don't want to be European socialists. This was an utter, total rejection of an American president unlike any in American history. That's Michael Novak's take and I happen to agree with him. No president has ever been utterly rejected like this on substance, on the basis of policy. It wasn't marketing. It wasn't packaging. It wasn't a lack of proper messaging. It had everything to do with what Obama stands for. It had everything to do with the direction Obama wants to take this country.

When you have independents moving in such droves against a sitting president, the same independents who elected him, it's actually a very heartening thing to realize that a large segment of the American population is taking notes, is paying attention, is expressing at the ballot box their utter disagreement, their utter rejection of everything the Democrats stand for, and that is Obama. The Democrats making it clear here that they're going to stick with the same leadership team is an effort I believe to cover up what is really going on behind the scenes and that is a total shakeup some way to limit the damage of Obama going forward into 2012. Folks, I wish that I could tie this to something substantive that I know, 'cause there isn't anything. Common sense. This kind of drubbing is not reacted to in such a cavalier manner as they are reacting to this. You don't send the president out of the country for ten days after such a drubbing unless you want him offstage domestically.

I'm gonna get into this Politico story in greater detail as the program unfolds today, but let me just give you the opening paragraph of this thing: "President Barack Obama has performed his act of contrition. Now comes the hard part, according to Democrats around the country: reckoning with the simple fact that he’s isolated himself from virtually every group that matters in American politics." Now, you could look at that paragraph and say, "Hmm, he's tone deaf, he's an elitist, he's arrogant, he's conceited, he's isolated himself," or you could look at that paragraph and say, "Something is seriously wrong."

"Congressional Democrats consider him distant and blame him for their historic defeat on Tuesday. Democratic state party leaders scoff at what they see as an inattentive and hapless political operation. Democratic lobbyists feel maligned by his holier-than-thou take on their profession. His own Cabinet -- with only a few exceptions -- has been marginalized. His relations with business leaders could hardly be worse. Obama has suggested it’s a PR problem, but several Democratic officials said CEOs friendly with the president walk away feeling he’s indifferent at best to their concerns. Add in his icy relations with Republicans, the media and, most important, most voters, and it’s easy to understand why his own staff leaked word to POLITICO that it wants Obama to shake up his staff and change his political approach." Now, who's doing the leaking, and why? Who are the adults in this party that have finally come to Jesus and understood this is an unmitigated disaster that we have elected? It's an unmitigated disaster in the White House. Who is it leaking to the Politico, and for what ultimate purpose? Because whatever's in The Politico is not the ultimate purpose. The Politico is being used here or is complicit in being used to accomplish something here. We know that this is not just per se a hit piece on Obama to explain what happened. There's far more going on here. My antenna are sky-high.

"It should be a no-brainer for a humbled Obama to move quickly after Tuesday’s thumping to try to repair these damaged relations, and indeed, in India on Sunday, he acknowledged the need for 'midcourse corrections.' But many Democrats privately say they are skeptical that Obama is self-aware enough to make the sort of dramatic changes they feel are needed -- in his relations with other Democrats or in his very approach to the job." They are skeptical that Obama is self-aware enough. Now, that doesn't mean elitist. That doesn't mean arrogant. That doesn't mean conceited. That means, is he all there, period? That means -- well, you know what it means. That means, is everything normal? My interpretation here.

..... And again, I want to stress instincts, just a feeling. I've never doubted them. I've always trusted my instincts, particularly in matters political. But it just strains credulity for me to believe the Democrats think nothing's wrong here except messaging,..... but there has never been this huge a personal repudiation of a president in just two years, especially one who was messianic, he has fallen from heavenly heights.

 

RUSH: Yeah, what I'm saying is... Look, I know this is going to sound strange to you if you base it on some of my previous comments, because on the one hand everything that's happened here is because we've had exactly what Obama has wanted to happen. He has wanted to inflict damage on the US private sector. He knows that single-payer health care is the fastest way to accomplish that. He's trying to put the private insurance business out of business. Here comes this election, this shellacking, and based on this story in the Politico (and based on the insistence that health care had nothing to do with this), my sense is that there are some Democrats who think Obama and everybody he has brought to Washington with him -- everybody who is of like mind with Obama -- is doing long-term damage to the Democrat Party. There have to be Democrats thinking that.

 

Now, I know we look at them and we see them as invincible, as unafraid, as not concerned that they lose this kind of power. Folks, it's not just Washington. They have lost state legislatures. They have lost governorships. The Democrat Party took a drubbing. It was a wipeout the likes of which this country has not seen, and it is owing to one man. One man made this happen, Barack Obama, and I'm suggesting to you that there are Democrats somewhere -- it may not be very many, but there are Democrats somewhere -- who know it and are asking themselves if they can survive two more years of this as a party. I know that balances weirdly with the assessment we've all made that they're about destroying, on purpose, the institutions and traditions of this country -- and I believe that the far left has co-opt the Democrat Party in many ways. But there are some adults in that party, I'm convinced, who don't want what they want so badly that they're willing to destroy their ability to have power for generations.

 

 

RUSH: Folks, I'm gonna have to double-check this, but I'm pretty certain the last time that there were less than 200 Democrats in the House of Representatives was 1947 -- 1947! This is the worst drubbing since 1948. I erred when I said it was in the thirties last week. But it's not just that, it's not just less than 200 Democrats in the House since 1947. It's the governorships. It's state legislatures. You may not know this. The Republicans are making a move on West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin to switch parties. He sounded like Ronald Reagan in his campaign. There's no way Joe Manchin can vote with the Democrats the next two years and have any hope of being reelected. The Republicans are making a move in there to get him to switch parties.

 

Now, in addition to all the governorships and less than 200 Democrats in the House (since 1947, first time for that), there were 680 state legislative seats that switched hands. You know what this means? This means if the Republicans have the guts (and we'll have to wait and see on this), they could redistrict the Democrat Party into permanent minority status for who knows how long. Well, "permanent." Nothing's permanent in politics. There's any number of steps that Republicans could take to weaken much of the power base that has built the Democrat Party. Republicans have control of the rewriting of 195 congressional districts. One hundred and ninety-five can be rewritten now -- gerrymandered, if you will ("Jerry-mandered" if you prefer that pronunciation) for perpetual Republican elections, compared to 45 for the Democrats.

So my point here is: This is huge what happened last Tuesday, and it is a rejection of one man and his policies. Now, the Democrats are out there trying to say it had nothing to do with health care, it had nothing to do with policy, it was all messaging. That is to co-opt everybody and to fool everybody. They're also out saying, "The Tea Party cost the Republicans the Senate." The Tea Party is what gave this massive defeat to the Democrat Party. The Tea Party is what has vaulted the Republican Party to where it is. The Tea Party's responsible for 60 some odd seats in the House of Representatives. The Tea Party is responsible for victories in the Senate. Yeah, there were three that didn't go the way they wanted 'em to go, but the effort here to blame the Tea Party for this is part of the narrative and template.

 

This Politico story shows there is something bubbling up way below the surface and it's getting closer and closer to reaching the surface -- and if it does, I think people are gonna be shocked and stunned at what might happen. Listen to this again: "[A]nd in his icy relations with Republicans, the media, and most important most voters, and it's easy to understand why his own staff leaked word to Politico that it wants Obama to shake up his staff and change his political approach." Icy relations? Let me tell you something: His own staff leaked word to Politico that "it" wants Obama to shake up his staff? That means they're making efforts behind the scenes to get Obama to shake up his staff, and he is rejecting it, and so they're going the route of the media.

 

This could be -- and we'll just have to wait and see. This could be near mutinous what's happening here. "His own staff," and who is the staff? Who is running the show? Emanuel's leaving. The economic team's gone. Axelrod's leaving in the spring. Who is running this show? Well, Valerie Jarrett's still running the show and Michelle (My Belle) Obama's still running the show, and this man makes it clear he's being nagged by women whenever he goes out and makes public statements. Who is running this show? Now you've got The Politico saying that the staff is calling them, asking The Politico to publish the fact that they want him to change his political approach. "It should be a no-brainer for a humbled Obama..." That's not possible.

 

This is another thing to throw in the mix: It's not possible to "humble" Obama. Obama has done everything he intended to do here. See, this is the problem they've got. He doesn't look at this as brand destruction. This is... You think Jeremiah Wright cares about the Democrat Party? You think Bill Ayers cares about the Democrat Party? You think any of the people that mentored Barack Obama care about the Democratic Party except as a vehicle? You think there's any brand loyalty to the Democrat Party? I don't think there is, and there's no such thing as "a humbled Obama." I think it's another thing that bothers them. No such thing as a man capable of humility, and if you're not capable of humility, then you're not capable understanding where you're going wrong.

 

It's always somebody else's fault, and then paranoia sets in. "It should be a no-brainer for a humbled Obama..." Should be a no-brainer; should be, meaning anybody ought to be able to figure this out, "to move quickly after Thursday's thumping to try to repair these damaged relations, and indeed in India on Sunday he acknowledged the need for mid-course corrections." In India? "But many Democrats privately say they are skeptical that Obama is self-aware enough to make the sort of dramatic changes they feel are needed in his relations with other Democrats or in his very approach to the job." Many Democrats privately say...? Look, The Politico is famous for all these private people saying things without attribution. It's a political technique.

 

I'm taking all this into account in this analysis I'm engaging in here. "Many Democrats privately say they are skeptical Obama is self-aware enough to make the sort of..." Do you understand what this could mean? He's taken a giant thumping, huge, not just in Washington, in the states, throughout the country. "Democrats privately say they're skeptical that Obama's self-aware enough to make the sort of dramatic change," it hasn't dawned on Obama how big the drubbing is? If it hasn't dawned on Obama, why? Why could possibly explain that? "keptical Obama is self-aware enough to make the sort of dramatic changes they feel are needed in his relations with other Democrats or in his very approach to the job."

 

They question his self-awareness to the point they ask: Is he capable of doing the job? Folks, this is not lightly thrown out there by the Politico. The Politico is clearly State-Controlled Media, clearly sympathetic. You throw a paragraph like that out there? You got somebody detached, not even aware what happened, not capable of doing the job. Folks, put that in context with this giant, huge drubbing on Tuesday -- which I think they were shocked at. I don't think the Democrats had any idea it was gonna be this bad. They live in denial. But now, now... (interruption) No, they didn't think it was gonna be this bad, Snerdley. They knew they were gonna lose some seats. They didn't think it was gonna extend down to dogcatcher, which it has.

 

 

RUSH: There's a companion story here, and I want you to grab audio sound bite number nine. AP: "Obama Surprised by Political Cost of Health Law." Now, let's go back here. Many Democrats privately say they are skeptical that Obama is self-aware enough. Folks, you're telling this to the Politico. This is the kind of thing they would say about Newt Gingrich. It's the kind of thing they would say about George Bush. He's off his rocker; he's lost his marbles; that he's gone nutcase; that he's drinking again in the White House. There were all those stories out there that Bush had lost it, he's back on medicine for anxiety and all that kind of stuff. That's the kind of stuff they always say about Republicans. You don't see this about Democrats. "Many Democrats privately say they are skeptical that Obama is self-aware enough to make the sort of dramatic changes they feel are needed ... or in his very approach to the job." Self-aware enough to do the job? And then this next headline: "Obama Surprised by Political Cost of Health Law." What are they setting up here? Are they setting up somebody totally out of touch, clueless, doesn't know what's going on out there? And he's helping. Last night, 60 minutes, Steve Kroft. You know how they promo'd this? "Obama's First Postelection Interview." Big whoop. It's about his one millionth interview. What's the big deal about it being his first postelection interview? Anyway, here's Kroft. "Are there things that you wish you could do over?"

 

OBAMA: There are some that argued, well, you should just stop and let people digest all these changes and so you shouldn't take on something as big as health care. It's a huge, big, complicated system. I made the decision to go ahead and do it. And it proved as costly politically as we expected, probably actually a little more costly than we expected politically.

 

RUSH: From that we get an AP headline: "Obama Surprised by Political Cost of Health Law." I don't believe that for a second. I know that Obama intended to do exactly what he did. He intended to do everything that he has done, and yet two separate stories. We're getting a picture of somebody clueless, outta touch, and in The Politico not self-aware enough to even do the gig. And now, he's out there saying, "I had no idea it was gonna be this costly politically." BS. You knew damn well it was gonna cost this much politically. He doesn't care what happened to the Democrat Party. This is what I've been trying to tell everybody for as long as he's been president. He doesn't care. He told the Blue Dogs, he sent Clinton out to confirm it, "You vote for this health care bill or you don't have a chance of being reelected." They said, "Well, wait a minute, what happened to Democrats in '94? " Obama said the difference is this time you've got me. Well, look where that got 'em. The difference is this time you've got me. Yeah. This time you got Obama, and you lost 60 seats. You have less than 200 members in the House since 1947, you've lost state legislatures, you've lost the governorship, the Republicans can redistrict Democrats out of power for who knows how long, and if they've got the guts they can disempower some unions with right to work laws, if they've got the guts to. And the Blue Dogs are now saying, "You know what? We're gonna stick with the same leadership in the House and the same leadership in the Senate."

Folks, I wasn't born on a turnip truck, and I didn't fall off of one. But even if I had been born on a turnip truck and even if I had fallen off a turnip truck, you're not gonna make me think this is just standard old politics-as-usual after a political defeat. "In his effort to change Washington, Obama has failed to engage Washington and its institutions and customs." I told you. He doesn't care what he leaves in his wake as he sets out to reform, transform America. He doesn't care about the wreckage. "In his effort to change Washington, Obama has failed to engage Washington and its institutions and customs, leaving him estranged from the capital’s permanent power structure --" ..........

So, Obama's not Washington enough? Hell, he's not American enough. That's what they're saying here. .... To the people that run that town, to the people that run that show. Here's a Democrat official -- as usual in The Politico, unnamed -- Democrat official who deals frequently with the White House. Quote: "This guy swept to power on a wave of adulation, and he learned the wrong lessons from that. He’s more of a movement leader than a politician." He’s more of a movement leader than a politician. Meaning, he's above all of this. In his own mind, he's not of the soil. He's messianic. He's a movement leader. He doesn't care about our party. He's a community organizer. He's a movement leader. He won't come down to our level. This guy's final comment was, I'm just quoting him, now. Hide the women and children, folks. Three, two, one, hide the women and children. Final quote, this political advisor, unnamed: "He needs someone to kick his ass on things large and small and teach him to be a politician." Now, is Politico part of Reverse Operation Chaos? I ask you, folks, I ask you.

 

 

RUSH: Boy, how times change, folks. I mean just a few weeks ago it was Obama looking around for asses to kick, and now it's his ass being kicked by unnamed Democrats in The Politico. Somebody needs to tell whoever leaked this all to the Politico that Obama's 9,000 miles away in India. If you want to make a change now's the perfect time. He's 9,000 miles away. If you think the adults need to step up here, this is the perfect time to do it. Change the lock on the Oval Office or worse.

[pinz]

RM Mwah! Thank you!

 

I like a conspiracy as much as the next guy, but if there is any truth to the rumor of Biden invoking the 25th Amendment, we'd be dangerously close to a coup scenario. That would be a bad thing.

 

The thought of Boehner as Pres. would be comforting, though.

[SrWoodchuck]

Great post,Righteousmomma!

[pinz]

It appears there is a new installment to The Intrigue.

[SrWoodchuck]

It appears there is a new installment to The Intrigue.

Pinz! Thanks for the post, that's juicy!

[Evad]

asses to kick, boots on their necks, get to the back of the bus and WE WON!!

Boy, this administration really has all the right words

[Al_Simmons]

It appears there is a new installment to The Intrigue.

 

 

Dang - but who knows if it is true? There are always factions within parties, and a lot of behind-the-back yakking, but rarely does it translate into an open war (see 1912, 1976, 1980, 1992 GOP, GOP, Dem and GOP primaries, respectively...) The side-effect is that never has a president so challenged been able to win reelection - although win the primary war the presidents always have done.

 

I'll believe "the big scandal" when I see it in the MSM. There have BEEN enough 'big scandals' that the MSM just refused to report.

 

Still, its nice to see the Dems "twisting slowly in the wind."

[NCTexan]

Hmmmmm

 

Is it genetics or environment? Curious minds, want to know.

 

From the Washington Post....

 

WaPo Story

 

Obama's Indonesian gay nanny and other things from his past

By Matt DeLong

 

With Obama visiting Indonesia today, the New York Times has a story that is just chock-full of interesting tidbits about Obama's time living there as a child in the late 1960s. For example, the Times reports that back then Obama was "chubby" and that some of the locals referred to him as "the boy who runs like a duck."

 

Then, of course, there's this:

 

His nanny was an openly gay man who, in keeping with Indonesia's relaxed attitudes toward homosexuality, carried on an affair with a local butcher, longtime residents said. The nanny later joined a group of transvestites called Fantastic Dolls, who, like the many transvestites who remain fixtures of Jakarta's streetscape, entertained people by dancing and playing volleyball.

 

Apparently, such a thing is not uncommon, as Indonesia has a relatively advanced drag culture, the Australian newspaper the Age reported in 2003. Transvestites, known in Indonesia as "waria," are particularly prevalent in the tailoring and makeup artist professions, according to the paper.

[AceRimmer]

I'll believe "the big scandal" when I see it in the MSM. There have BEEN enough 'big scandals' that the MSM just refused to report.

 

Still, its nice to see the Dems "twisting slowly in the wind."

 

If Obambi's ratings fall into the 30s, the LSM will start digging to save their own arses. Still, it's hard to find a real scandal unless you know what you're looking for, which is why I think Issa should tread carefully when he starts investigating things besides the New Black Panther case and the Obambicare backroom deals.

[Rheo]

Ok, now that we got to talking about this again today, going to park some info.

Oct 26, 2010 from "The Insider"

 

Ok then – I’ll point your nose in the right direction. Enough people are sniffing in the same garbage pile anyways, including the Times. Though I suspect they are burying it at the moment, or trying to. They are still heavily invested in Obama, but that may change soon… Go back to Chicago. That is the key. There is other crap around the White House, other things that could trip them up, but Chicago is where the real heavy deal is that could bring the administration down. Go back and review Blagojevich. Go back and review Rezko, Barton, Stern, Giordano, Carothers, Jarret. It’s one and the same. It’s all connected, and it’s big. And people know. The White House is -expletive- itself over this stuff. Pelosi has it. Clintons have it – more of it than they had in 2008.

 

(Interrupts) What do you mean “have it”? The information – the story. At least some of it, enough of it. It’s all a chess match you know. A series of moves. Right now the White House is scrambling, and they don’t know enemies from friends anymore. The party is attempting to localize the damage so it doesn’t spread. Make it just about Chicago, and worst case, Obama – but not the party. And so you look back to Chicago, you look at the Justice Department, connect the dots. One investigation will potentially reveal the other. And it’s all setting up to happen now if the November elections go down with a Republican landslide. Obama will be left without protection. His inner circle is scared to death. I mean truly frightened by the prospects of what could be coming at them in the coming months. They have enemies both in the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. President Obama is lost. Absolutely lost.”

 

 

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