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Obama Non-Grata


Rich Galen

Monday November 8, 2010


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  • The Mullings Director of Standards & Practices and I were driving back from dinner in Your Nation's Capital Saturday night when the local news station, WTOP, went to the CBS radio network for an update on President Obama's visit to India during which the network correspondent did a piece on protesters who were dogging the Obama visit.

  • It seems the Leftist parties intend to protest, demanding, according to the Hindustan Times, the "extradition of Warren Anderson (the former chief of Union Carbide) and to protest against American attempts to enter the agricultural and retail sectors in India".

  • I said we had been led to believe that once Obama had been elected (meaning George W. was no longer in office) that the rest of the world would fall down in paroxysms of delight at the mere mention of his name, much less Obama's actual presence in their actual country.

  • "He's Obama non-grata," she said, and then went back to answering an email on her Blackberry.

  • That sentiment was echoed in a front page headline in yesterday's Washington Post which read:
    "Democrats pin losses on Obama's disconnect"

  • The front pager by reporters Karen Tumulty and Dan Balz quoted the retiring Governor of Tennessee saying,
    "There doesn't seem to be anybody in the White House who's got any idea what it's like to lie awake at night worried about money and worried about things slipping away."

  • A Democratic strategist (who "asked not to be named while offering a candid criticism") said Obama, unlike Bill Clinton, "doesn't gain energy by connecting with people."

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    Here's a new rule: Anyone who is quoted without being named because they're afraid of retaliation for what they've said will be known as a Jack Wagon who was reached at his home in Namby-Pamby Land.

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  • While progressives are complaining that Obama wasn't dedicated enough to the causes of the American Left, retiring Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said that Obama will have to deal with the Republicans in Congress. "He has got to reach out on everything," Rendell said. Balz and Tumulty pointed out that Rendell "saw his party lose the governorship, a Senate seat and five House seats in his state."

  • The best example of how Democrats aren't listening to the voters is announcement by Nancy Pelosi that she will follow the political advice of Dylan Thomas and "will not go gentle into that good night."

  • She is going to run for Minority Leader in the House. In the minority, the number two position is whip. It is likely that Pelosi's close ally, Democratic Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) will run to keep his post as Whip, but he is in a heated fight with the man who was the number two, Steny Hoyer (D-MD).

  • I think Pelosi is running either because she believes this is a one Congress blip and the Dems will regain their majority with Obama on the ballot in 2012, or she just doesn't want Steny Hoyer - a long-time foe in the Democratic House Caucus - to move up to the top slot.

  • Or both.

  • While much of the Washington Press Corps has been focusing on how well incoming Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will deal with the Tea Party members of the House Republican Conference, they should be spending more time looking at the civil war breaking out within the Democratic Party.

  • Senior Jack Wagons from all edges of the Democratic party point pointing fingers at Obama, Pelosi, Clyburn, Hoyer and anyone else they think will stop the stain spreading to themselves for the historic losses last Tuesday.

  • The Culprit-in-Chief for those losses, Obama Non-Grata, is out of the country until the dust settles.

  • On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: Pretty good links. The Hindustan Times (how many time in your life are you going to be able to quote something from the Hindustan Times?), the Washington Post piece, the Dylan Thomas poem, and the intramural fights among Democrats for leadership slots in the House.

    Also, an interesting Mullfoto and a topic appropriate Catchy Caption of the Day.

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