I’m shocked and think this is a good thing.
I figured most liberal Dems would stick with the Baraqqis to the bitter end.
Perhaps they sense Messiah is fading fast in the polls?
This Rat is indeed deserting the Obama ship (ark), but I believe gubernatorial politics might be behind her excoriations today. DiFi for guv?
Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
Friday, 09 October 2009
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The conversations at the Cosmos Club this week were very subdued. As it has been for generations, this is where the true power elite of Washington gathers. Whether it was in the East Garden Bar, the Old Club Room, or the Members Dining Room, the savviest veterans of Capitol Hill and K Street - Democrat and Republican - had a tone of fear and seriousness you didn't hear the week before.
Something had scared them. Scared them like an earthquake had fractured their political foundations. The one whispered word you could overhear more than any other was "Copenhagen."
For them, President and Mrs. Zero flying off to Copenhagen to beg the International Olympics Committee for Chicago and being rejected was not a matter of humiliation. It was scales falling off their eyes, and in an eye-blink realizing the enormity of the mistake America made last November.
And at breakfast in the Garden Dining Room this morning (10/09), there were hardly conversations at all, just shocked silence. The consequences of giving a president afflicted with pathological egomania combined with pathological amateurishness the Nobel Peace Prize were so grave they were speechless.
These grizzled hard-nosed guys can handle egomaniacs and ideologues, for DC is overrun with such folk. What they can't handle, what actually scares them, is off-the-wall bozo sophomoric amateurs in positions of real power. And if the amateur in question is at the apex of real power and is so nutso narcissistic that he can't be educated to be less amateurish, now they start to freak out.
One basic rule that all presidents adhere to, Dem or Pub makes no difference, is they never risk the prestige of the presidency on a negotiation that could result in public humiliation. It's always negotiated by White House Sherpas in advance so it's a done deal, and the POTUS just shows up for the applause and photo-ops.
The Copenhagen Fiasco has scared every pro in Washington because it was Total Absolute Amateur City by a presidential ego run amok.
So Cosmos is quiet this morning, as everyone realizes this pathological ego is now on steroids with this farce of a peace prize.
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You won't, however, hear any conspiracy talk at Cosmos. For that you have to go to the GOP's favorite watering hole, the Capitol Hill Club. Not a few Pub Congressistas were speculating there over a quick cup of morning coffee that George Soros must have paid off the Norwegian Nobel Committee to counter Zero's humiliation in Copenhagen and being ridiculed on Saturday Night Live.
Maybe. Becoming an object of ridicule is often irrecoverably deadly to a politician. For a long time, comedians just couldn't tell jokes about The One. Then Bill Maher on HBO had this zinger: