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.
Also, I'm a single issue voter in the NEXT election - either you support the Vitter Amendment or you don't. That in itself should win the Senate in 2014 and keep the House in GOP hands.
And of course, we still have 'Sequestration, if the Pubbies don't screw it up, we should be back to 2008 spending levels in another year or so. Resetting the baseline budget to those levels??? That's the Teaparty's crowning achievement
Who knows, there's still many lawsuits on Obamacare out there, maybe one will kill it, but in the mean time, it is turning out to be worse than anyone thought. The Democrats own it, and if they want to change it, it's got to go thru the House ...
So overall, I'm not disappointed with 'the hand' we hold ...