[FrankR]

"Obama on Saturday announced a plan for federal workers to propose ways to improve their agencies' and departments' budgets. The president said employees' ideas would be key as his Cabinet officials try to cut millions from the budget and trim the deficit."

Notice that he is only asking his employees, agencies, and departments for advice...who - who wants to keep their job - will tell the "prince" that his policies suck?

[caseinpoint]

That’s obvious. Who wants the commoners, who he said are only capable of paying taxes, to make recommendations?

It’s an interesting dynamic he sets up. He claims to have team members or allies but then sets up systems to bypass them and get “the goods” on those team members or allies. He has “czars” against cabinet secretaries, federal employees against both the secretaries and czars, lawyers against the intelligence community, retired military against the serving military, state houses and senates against their governors, citizens against their state political apparatus, WOT prisoners against their guards, union members against their employers. Now a lot of that isn’t new by any means but he is playing the competition to the hilt and billing himself as the all-knowing, all-wise conciliator, all while gathering to himself all kinds of ammunition against anyone who might turn against him.

Or am I being paranoid?