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Doubling Down

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But identifying them proves a bit harder than we thought. Rule No. 1 about power couples: They deny that they are power couples.

"I'm sort of intensely uncomfortable with the term; I'm not quite sure what it means," says Bob Bauer, President Obama's personal counsel and the Democratic Party's new lawyer, who was described by Politico as having "new, unmatched legal power."

His wife is Anita Dunn, an Obama campaign veteran who passed up a White House job and now reigns as the town's resident political consultant-strategist-genius. She seemingly has worked for every Democrat who ever lived, back to the Carter days. Newsweek, which we think should know, listed the couple among the new "D.C. powers."

Not so, says Dunn: "The idea of power couples is a very retro idea. We don't really have them among us now."

Interesting theory. But it contravenes Rule No. 2:

Washington must have power couples. It needs them, or at least the idea of them.

Because Washington, despite being the seat of democracy and all that, is fundamentally a place of pecking-order distinctions. There are striations in levels of access and power; major and minor signifiers.

Does your government position afford you a shiny black Suburban (or two, or more) and a security detail, or just a reserved spot in your agency's garage? Small things convey prestige, unfettered passage, no second look from the Secret Service. Are you "hard-pinned" or "tin-pinned" when traveling with POTUS?

Badges and clearance levels matter: How far above "secret" are you? Were you "read into" the program?

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Here's Obama's communications director, Anita Dunn, praising mass-murderer Mao Tse Tung and his communist revolution before an audience of graduating ** high-schoolers**! (St. Andrews Episcopal school at the Washington National Cathedral). A video link is provided at the end of this post.

Anita Dunn: "The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Tse Tung and Mother Teresa. Not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is: You're going to make choices. ... But here's the deal: These are your choices; they are no one else's.

"In 1947, when Mao Tse Tung was being challenged within his own party on his own plan to basically take China over, Chiang Kai-Shek and the nationalist Chinese held the cities, they had the army. ... They had everything on their side. And people said 'How can you win? How can you do this against all of the odds against you?'

"And Mao Tse Tung says, 'You fight your war and I'll fight mine.' You don't have to accept the definition of how to do things. ... You fight your war, you let them fight theirs. Everybody has their own path."..."

[The following is NOT from Anita Dunn. It's from the author of the linked CNS News article...]

Policies implemented under Mao Tse Tung, including the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and persecution in Tibet, among other policies, led to death of an estimated 65 million people, according to The Black Book of Communism (Harvard University Press), which is considered by scholars as one of the best sources on communist atrocities.

Mao also outlawed religion and sent at least 2.5 million people to “re-education camps,” called “laogai,” which were similar to the slave-labor camps in the Gulag of the Soviet Union. An estimated 1,000 laogai reportedly are still in operation today

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55665
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Beck Plays Explosive Video of WH Communications Director (Anita Dunn) Praising Mao (and his revolution):
http://www.breitbart.tv/beck-plays-explosive-video-of-wh-communications-director-praising-mao/

[Fred Nerks]

Robert Bower signs U C?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Beck was talking about Dunn’s ‘spousal unit’ this evening. It’s getting interesting! GREAT FIND, btw!

[circumbendibus]

Was an appeal filed in the lawsuit where you show Bauer’s threatening letter?

[Future Useless Eater]

MY opinion:

Bauer, who is Obama’s personal lawyer for all the ‘natural born citizen’ court challenges is NOT being paid by Obama personally for his legal defense work.

Bauer is being paid by the taxpayer instead, by employing Anita, and (according to Beck) Bauer may now be getting a cushy White House job.

[danamco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0sQroiCYNc

[thouworm]

RELATED THREAD:

“And now that we learned last night that White House Communication Director Anita Dunn’s HUSBAND, Robert Bauer, is going to become the White House’s Chief Legal Counsel — the SAME Robert Bauer who is Chair of the Political Law Group of Perkins Coie with whom Siddharth Velamoor is also a partner — well, all of the other pieces regarding the Obama v Keyes case and Siddharth Velamoor’s placement as a Legal Clerk with Judge Carter (who’s likely unaware of the conflict-of-interest) are coming together now.
well ... at least to those who are intellectually-honest enough to admit it! Hey MSM — where are you?!”

Carter shows his ethics: hires lawyer from Obama firm, as clerk Oct. 1st
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2365423/posts?page=212#212