Nothing like a nasty, internecine battle in the Democrat party to warm a GOP heart:
“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.” That’s what President Barack Obama said to Rep. Peter DeFazio in a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus last week, according to the Associated Press.
A few weeks ago, Mr. DeFazio voted against the administration’s stimulus bill. The comment from Mr. Obama was a presidential rebuke and part of a new, hard-nosed push by the White House to pressure Congress to adopt the president’s budget. He has mobilized outside groups and enlisted forces still in place from the Obama campaign.
Senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett and her chief of staff, Michael Strautmanis, are in regular contact with MoveOn.Org, Americans United for Change and other liberal interest groups. Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina has collaborated with Americans United for Change on strategy and even ad copy. Ms. Jarrett invited leaders of the liberal interest groups to a White House social event with the president and first lady to kick off the lobbying campaign.
Its targets were initially Republicans, as team Obama ran ads depicting the GOP as the “party of no.” But now the fire is being trained on Democrats worried about runaway spending.
Americans United is going after Democrats who are skeptical of Mr. Obama’s plans to double the national debt in five years and nearly triple it in 10. The White House is taking aim at lawmakers in 12 states, including Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor. MoveOn.Org is running ads aimed at 10 moderate Senate and House Democrats. And robocalls are urging voters in key districts to pressure their congressman to get in line.
Obama is not just President of the United States, but Il Duce of the Party-State, and just as with certain other such leaders of the past, he’s determined that the Führerprinzip be obligatory on all party underlings. As Obamunism is now to be the bearer of the American National Ideal, to be opposed to Obama is to be, in a large sense, opposed to America.
At least, that is what Obama appears to believe, even if he doesn’t articulate it like that. He’s a bloody, little fascist and a growing megalomaniac. His wife’s no better – if I hear one more story about Mrs. Obama’s arms and how beautiful and sexual she is, I’ll puke. She’s not that good looking, guys and gals, but it does seem to be a requirement upon the MSM to laud her to the skies as the price for continued White House access. I never thought I’d live to see the day when so many of my fellow Americans would abase themselves before a mere man – and a not too clever man, at that.
Will the Democrats stand up to him? Time will tell – I hope that some of them do show some guts here and tell the President to go jump in lake. He needs to be brought down a peg or two and it needs to be rammed home to him that he’s just a man – no better than anyone else out there.
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