So now it begins….the Democrats will be falling all over themselves to blame each other for the coming November election:
During the tense evening meeting, the speaker grilled the top White House aide in attendance, senior legislative affairs staffer Dan Turton, about the impact of Gibbs’ comments.
“How could [Gibbs] know what is going on in our districts?” Pelosi told her members in the caucus meeting in the basement of the Capitol Tuesday night. “Some may weigh his words more than others. We have made our disagreement known to the White House.”
Then she turned to Turton and asked him to acknowledge that Gibbs’ comments had been damaging to the Democratic cause, Democratic insiders said. Gibbs was not in the room for this meeting.
Turton, responding to both Pelosi and accusations from Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), said Gibbs was speaking off the cuff and not from prepared material during a controversial appearance on Meet the Press Sunday, sources said.The outburst from House Democrats illustrates the pressure lawmakers are feeling from an impending election and the strain of the tension – and occasionally enmity— that has characterized relations between an increasingly unpopular president and a House majority facing the possibility of huge electoral losses.
Democratic lawmakers also tried to pin their woes on the White House, saying that control of the House might not be in play if the Obama administration had done a better job of messaging on the party’s agenda and accomplishments.
And while Gibbs’ remarks on “Meet the Press” on Sunday comport with the judgment of political prognosticators, they frustrated Democrats who understood the power they could have as fodder for Republicans in building support – financial and otherwise – for their House campaigns.
Pelosi blames Gibbs and the White House. Turton says that the Press Secretary was only speaking “off the cuff.” Imagine that, a Press Secretary who speaks “off the cuff,” never heard of such a thing…..sigh.
Silly wabbits, that standard only holds true for people like Sarah Palin, when speaking with the likes of Katie Couric.
Expect to see much more of this in the coming months as the Democrats maneuver to blame each other, and Obama, to save their jobs. Which looks more and more likely they will be losing.
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This was inevitable, and i actualy expected it sooner.
The entire Democrat coalition is made of groups with Hugely differing agendas… and only being AntiBush really brought the together.
With Bush gone, they are disintegrating back into their more natural chaotic nature.
Now, the ONLY thing which may now keep them together (at least partly) is the idea that “we all hang together, or we will most certainly hang seperatly”… so in order to maintain power they “may” be able to hold parts of the AntiBush coalition together… BUT, that won’t happen if people keep making realistic public statements, like Gibbsy did.
This is hysterical. As if she has the first idea either.
They’re both idiots.
Shocking! The Dems rammed through legislation against the will of the majority of voters, and now they are in trouble. The Dems helped special interest groups at the expense of most Americans and now they are catching hell from their constituents and independents. The Dems spent months taking over and destroying healthcare, raising taxes, and hurting small business hiring while bailing out their fat cat buddies. The party of the “little guy” ensured that billionaires got plenty while middle class Americans can’t get jobs. Now the Dems push for open borders while Americans see the crimes committed by illegal aliens.
Now voters are angry with Democrats.
I just can’t figure it out.
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I wonder if Gibbs actually hopes that republicans DO win back the House. Hussein is interested in 2012 and his own skin, not that of democrats in the house or senate. He is doing his level best to destroy the US and more and more actual Americans are catching on to his agenda. During the run up to the 2012 election, he’ll have a tough time convincing voters (other than blacks) that everything is STILL Bush’s fault. But with republicans in charge of the house, Hussein will have a bogeyman upon whom every bad bit of news can be blamed!
It’s the media’s fault! His words were taken out of context!!! blah, blah, blah. 😉
🙄 whatever.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/108721-van-hollen-acknowledges-some-dems-steamed-over-gibbs-election-comments
Then I heard another excuse trumpeted by the lefties, he only said it to energize the base. But, when you start looking at the polls, I would think Gibbs is probably parroting what he’s hearing behind the scenes in the WH.
This was not his usual dodge and parry, “I’ll have to check…..I’ll get back to you..etc.” Things really aren’t looking good in Obama/Pelosi/Reid world. Deservedly so!
chuckle, and they make a big deal out of Steele. BTW, I’ve been busy, has anyone heard a peep out of Tim Kaine?
@ Meremortal: you forgot to link “illegals” with “jobs.” They are most certainly related. I’m having some work done on my house, by a contractor, and all of the subs are Mexican. Not a white in the lot. 20 years ago, this was not the case. How many whites could be employed in the construction fields had this stupid government not opened its borders to these folks? Anyone care to argue that closing the borders would not be accompanied by a large drop in the unemployment numbers?
And to all you democrat creeps who drooled over the Chicago Jesus in 2008: how many poor people have interviewed you lately for a job? How’s that trickle up economics working for ya?
Keep crying, Nan. I’m loving the show. You can stop crying when we all take out the trash on November 2, 2010.
We can hope they keep squabling and taking down their own house of cards. But far better for those opposed to the Progressive Dems and Obama to keep their eyes focused on winning in November. George HW Bush was thought to be a shoo in with no credible Dem opponent; but then came Bill Clinton and a tanking economy.
Doug, did you ask the contractor to show all of the Mexicans green cards? If not you are part of the problem. Getting ready for some remodeling myself and any contractor who can’t show proof of the right to be in the country for ‘any’ foreign person will be ran off at the point of a gun.
Doug and Scrapiron, let me point out a part of the problem that Doug touched on on and I have NEVER heard discussed by the lame stream media.
American workers are losing the skills to do the jobs, not just the jobs themselves. Teenagers used to spend summers working construction and/or leave high school (graduate or not) and take jobs in the construction industry. The smart ones went on to start their own businesses or take their skills to higher levels.
Today’s kids work fast food then go to college or live off their parents. The skills that used to be taught by an unofficial apprenticeship program are lost to criminal aliens doing on the most part substandard work.
If we don’t get the problem under control we will have bigger problems for decades to come.
@Mata, you are right about loss of practical skills. In the educational system, there are only so many hours allotted for courses/semesters/programs. The educators have do with that what they can. For instance, if it takes 126 credit hours to get a BA, the college can’t make up a BA program that takes more hours (programs get around this by requiring “lab” or “practicum” courses that involve huge time for the credit return). So when all the school boards decided to cut costs by cutting “nonessential” programs, like Home Ec and Music, and/or to include new hours on “social Studies,” they hit right at the place which should be reinforcing life skills and weakened the product.
However, it’s worse than that, I think. Today’s Arizona Republic has the headline “Will Americans do farm work?” We have been conditioned to accept cheap labor from illegals by this constant mantra that “They do the work Americans won’t.” Now think about it: if these illegals (speaking of farmworkers specifically) are living in substandard conditions and working for substandard wages, as they are often said to be, under conditions where they are not insured and so on as Americans would be–it means we have tacitly accepted an exploitation which is a lot worse than kids in Nike factories. This is disgusting, this attitude that it is ok for “migrants” to be slaves. The right answer to the guilt, though, is not to make them all citizens so it is now ok because they will be able to make minimum wages.
Another thing keeping Americans from farmwork is that for many years the economic motor of the country has been fed by breaking up family farms and smallholders, and converting farmland to cities. I think this was a big, big mistake that has gone too far and we need to do some ruralizing. But while we are stuck with the mega farms outside the city, one of the big barriers to Americans working in them is transportation. If workers live in the city, and are at a low economic level where farm work is a reasonable choice, gas costs might drive them off.
Even if the Democrats hang on to Congress in Novemeber, they’ve shot themselves (and a possible new Republican majority) in the foot for the fiscal year 2011.
This could be a fatal error for hopes of using reconciliation in the lame duck session to add “cap-and-tax’ to a stripped down energy bill that Reid is now introducing.