[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Limbaugh theorem - Obama is just floating above it all - wanting want is best for us all, while people around him set the tone, hold the line and write the 2014 script for him.

[Seattle Conservative]

Interesting article. I’ve seen him on shows a few times, and, quite frankly got no sense whatsoever that he was this talented, smart, yada, yada. I found him to be rather swarmy and creepy.

A related article by Ed Klein: “Author Ed Klein Claims Obama Aide Jarrett Is The ‘Architect’ Of Shutdown Showdown”
Fox News ^ | 15 Oct 2013 | Carl Campanile (The New York Post)
Posted on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:21:45 PM by 11th_VA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3079462/posts

I’ve posted more than once that I think Jarrett is behind it all and I don’t mean just the “I will not negotiate” or current events. I think many here feel the same.

Your article mentioned that sometimes he goes away overnight and comes back with a plan. Wonder if he devised the plan, called ValJal and she told him the plan, or if she and he came up with the plan together.

[seeker41]

The architect is Jarret, the night stalker...

[Sir Napsalot]

Jarret is the brain. You seldom see her in public view, that’s what makes it obvious.

[originalbuckeye]

Obama, et al, wants the shutdown and the default. He believes the Media will continue to blame it all on Republicans and the Dems will benefit in 2014. He's right about the placing of blame by the Media., but he should take a look at his own numbers sometime.

[sickoflibs]

Actually the above post is informative.
Obama had a real plan.
Dems saw that and they stuck together from beginning to end.
They all repeated a common simple set of messages over and over not changing much.
They saw Obama hold that he would give GOP NOTHING.
Now he is more popular with Dems than ever.

Too bad Dems dont have organized opposition.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”The Limbaugh theorem - Obama is just floating above it all - wanting want is best for us all, while people around him set the tone, hold the line and write the 2014 script for him. “

They had Reid as attack dog, and Obama above it all lecturing to us ill behaving children. Pelosi pretty much stayed out of it except to repeat over and over ‘we are ready to open government was soon as Bohner lets us’

In contrast we had a fractured GOP that had no plan, no one really leading and no consistent messaging.

The end result is not really a surprise to many.

[piytar]

“A Gallup survey registered the GOP’s lowest approval rating ever in the poll’s history, while a few polls during the fight have actually showed Obama’s approval ratings climbing, largely because of support from within his own party.”

This poll is being used a relentless talking point, but it misses what is gong on. The is not mad at Cruz. The base is sick of the GOPe!

[Carry_Okie]

But a string of recent national polls on the budget battle show Republicans have taken the worst of the public opinion backlash by far.

A Gallup survey registered the GOP’s lowest approval rating ever in the poll’s history, while a few polls during the fight have actually showed Obama’s approval ratings climbing, largely because of support from within his own party.

A classic ruse holding correlation as causation. The reason many many conservatives would be dissatisfied with the GOP has NOTHING to do with 'Congress' intransigence,' quite the contrary. It has more to do with the GOPe lack of spine in dealing with this narcissistic brat we have in the White House.