Posted on 05/16/2013 7:13:26 PM PDT by haffast
(Reuters) - Senior White House officials responsible for navigating the administration through a trio of scandals met on Thursday with outside Democratic strategists for advice on how to get past the controversies and back on track advancing the president's agenda.
The White House is trying to regain the upper hand after being knocked on the defensive over its response to deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, the seizure of journalists' phone records in a Justice Department leak investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny.
Now, President Barack Obama's closest advisers want to find a way to return attention to his top priorities, such as creating more jobs and reforming immigration laws, while continuing to show they are trying to get to the bottom of the controversies.
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About a dozen outside strategists huddled with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, senior advisers Valerie Jarrett and Dan Pfeiffer, communications director Jen Palmieri and press secretary Jay Carney.
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Outside strategists said it might be worthwhile for the White House to reorganize its staff to have a point person or two for the scandals, particularly as Congress delves deeper into its IRS investigations. But they said they had no indication that might happen.
Reorganizing White House staff could leave spokesman Jay Carney freer to talk about Obama's agenda in daily briefings rather than being bogged down in daily interrogations about the details of congressional probes, they said.
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Let me guess who...Podesta.
Isn’t going to work. This is what happens when you put ‘juniors’ in charge. Every agency does its own thing without leadership. and we have none.
everyone get their tin foil hats
“Regain the upper hand.” Yeah, that’s what it’s all about when you’re a petty dictator.
Valerie: We just need to add another layer of obfuscation that Jay can refer the hard questions to ... we’ll need a Rabbit Hole Czar ... but who?
It’s not that difficult. Just look up “battered woman syndrome” and apply it to the press. In a week or two, they’ll be carrying the water for the zer0bama administration as if nothing ever happened.
LMBO!!
Only a shameless Democrat organ like Reuters could publish this pap with a straight face.
Lanny Davis in 3...2...1
And the advice and response will be to attack Republicans in the manner they did to Ken Star.
Right now the top priority should be what zero said, to find out what happened and who’s responsible
It started already. By the weekend, conservatives will be the only people following these stories – again.
Hahaha...’reorganize WH staff’...just like Titanic deck chairs. OMG, is that the BEST they can come up with?
“Only a shameless Democrat organ like Reuters could publish this pap with a straight face.”
My God, I know. So he really really wants to return to his “priority” of creating more jobs. Reuters you sh** the bed again.
[ OMG, is that the BEST they can come up with? ]
Using all of Zero’s experience in managerial / executive skills!
Shows how Reuters has actually begun assisting Obama by carry water saying, just like Bill Clinton by the way, that he “just wants to get back to work for the American people”
I don’tthink so. I read people saying this a lot but I don’t think so.
The IRS thing reaches right into the home of every person in the US, even those who don’t pay taxes, because it’s coupled with Obamacare.
When you feel these creepy thieves and dirty politicians getting into your healthcare and your home and your bank account, that’s not some abstract far-off-in-DC shenanigans. It’s up close and personal.
That’s good!
Senior White House officials responsible for navigating the administration through a trio of scandals...
I guess the Fast & Furious conspiracy is old news, eh?
Here is some outside advice: just tell everyone that you are like every major city in America. We’ll get the message.
Don’t forget Obama’s “I don’t know” responses to scandal have a double-edged sword. It might help him in the short-term escape a scandal, but in the long-term American voters will expect him to say, ‘I dunno’ when they want to ask him about how to improve the economy.
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