((((PING))))
Sarah can change the whole national conversation with a FB or Twitter missive. Whether people like her or not, one thing is undeniable. She wields a LOT of clout.
He’ll fit right in at the WH in Rahm’s position. The timing is wonderful too, given that this WH lives in fear of Sarah Palin.
but that boy is about as smart as a box of rocks.
strangely, thats a pretty good article
Exposure is what RATs fear the most. Their arrogance, their corruption and their insatiable quest for power will be their downfall. As Hussein becomes more and more a liability for the power brokers, his dirt will be exposed to We The People.
That’s why Murkowski is a write in.....
Now, check out possible COS Pete Rouse. His background, voter reg in AK,etc’——————
So did anyone check it out?
‘Palin and her Alaska circle find evidence for their suspicions about the White House in the person of Pete Rouse, who lived in Juneau for a time before he became chief of staff to a young U.S. Senator named Barack Obama’
Oh, so another thug friend of Obama’s.
This is a serious attack that goes back in years against Sarah Palin and the appointment of Rouse to fill Rahm’s position will signal a full out assault in underway against Sarah Palin’s possible run for the nomination. We’re researching the history and the various ties to her, Rouse and others in Alaska.
Rouse is Zero’s preparation in case Palin is the Repub Party pick for 2012. Just shows the potential presidential candidate who Zero most fears.
So Barry has his personal pawn to trash Palin. The little boy lives in FEAR - afraid his empire will crumble. What’s that we hear? Something like she’s not ready? LOL! Next time we see that comment or similar, we will know they are worthless pawns, also.
The left - straight to the top - knows more than some who come on here posing as conservatives!
Didn’t he have something to do with setting Levi up with a Hollywood agent?
Seems like I read about that a long time ago...that he got Levi’s mom a lawyer, and Levi a PR guy?
Rouse rhymes with “louse?”
ROUSE
The Outsider’s Insider
By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 27, 2007
Pete Rouse is the Outsider’s Insider, a fixer steeped in the ways of a Washington that Obama has been both eager to learn and quick to publicly condemn. The meticulous workaholic rose through three decades of unglamorous legislating to become arguably the most influential Democratic aide in the Senate when he worked for then-Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.).
“His familiarity with Washington makes him somebody whose judgment I trust,” Obama said. And yet this is the Washington of “cheap political points” and “petty” partisanship that figures prominently in Obama’s public speeches these days. “I know I haven’t spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington,” Obama tells his audiences. “But I’ve been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change.”
That has made Rouse’s job of introducing Obama to Capitol Hill a complicated balancing act: He seeks to burnish Obama’s still-modest credentials as a freshman senator while preventing the talented but inexperienced politician from making the kind of mistakes that have denied every senator since John F. Kennedy the presidency. “My role,” he said with classic staffer discretion, is simply “to help him accomplish his priorities.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/26/AR2007082601446.html
Rouse ended up working as Miller’s chief of staff for the final four years of Gov. Jay Hammond’s administration.
For a while, he imagined returning to Alaska if Miller ever managed to win a race for governor. The dream faded; Miller died of bone cancer in 1989, at age 46. Rouse’s last visit to Juneau was to attend his old friend’s memorial.
Rouse continued to keep many personal ties in Alaska — along with his voter registration. In last November’s presidential race, records show, the man who would co-lead Obama’s transition team voted absentee in Juneau.
Rouse declined to discuss his voter registration.
Irving and Mary Rouse raised their son, Pete, in Connecticut. He spent a few years working on Capitol Hill for Sen. James Abourezk, D-S.D., answering constituent mail alongside Daschle, another young aide. But when Daschle decided to run for Congress in 1978, Rouse took time off to get a master’s degree in public administration at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. There he met Miller, who had recently served as Alaska’s youngest-ever Senate president. Miller came home to run for lieutenant governor with Hammond for the governor’s second term.
Miller persuaded Rouse to return to his mother’s home state to work in Alaska politics. Part of the appeal was that Miller would be heir to Hammond’s moderate Republican mantle and had a good shot at becoming governor in four years.
“He was a very intelligent guy and a progressive Republican,” Rouse said of Miller, the only Republican he ever worked for. “On balance I felt he had the right vision for Alaska and the right philosophical approach.”
Rouse’s reach extended well beyond the lieutenant governor’s office. He was involved in all the governor’s major meetings on budgets and appointments, said Jerry Reinwand, who was Hammond’s chief of staff at the time.
The Alaska years ended in disappointment, when Miller lost the 1982 Republican gubernatorial primary to conservative Anchorage Mayor Tom Fink. (Democrat Bill Sheffield went on to win the general election that year.) Rouse headed back to Washington.
“One of the things you will find about Pete, he keeps one of the lowest profiles going,” said McKie Campbell, a former state Fish and Game Commissioner now working for the Senate Energy Committee in Washington, who stayed friends from the Juneau days. “He’s the quiet guy who everybody listens to when he talks.”
It seems unlikely that Rouse will play the same role on Alaska issues he once did in the Senate. He’s just too high up the ladder, with the White House operations and policy branches both reporting through him.
“I fix problems,” he said, explaining his new role.
Still Alaska veterans in Washington are glad to have him there. A big fan was former Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, who praised Rouse on the Senate floor in 1999. Others interviewed in recent weeks, including John Katz, the longtime head of the state’s Washington office, spoke about his long value to Alaska.
It was because of Rouse that Obama was the only presidential candidate to speak about Alaska’s natural gas pipeline before the primaries began, said former Gov. Tony Knowles, a Democrat, who got help from Rouse during his unsuccessful 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senate.
One of Rouse’s best friends in Alaska is state Sen. Kim Elton, D-Juneau. Rouse was the one who recruited Elton, a former journalist, into politics to work for Miller. Elton said Rouse is always eager for e-mailed photos of Romeo, the black wolf often photographed around Juneau.
Elton said he followed the presidential race through Rouse, backing Obama early on the strength of his friend’s endorsement. But he told Rouse he couldn’t talk about Palin once she was named to the Republican ticket. As chairman of the Legislative Council, Elton played a central role in the Legislature’s “Troopergate” investigation of the governor, which Republicans complained was being run by Obama supporters.
“It was awkward, because I usually love to talk about things like that,” Elton said.
When Elton and his wife traveled east for the inauguration, they stayed with Rouse. Now Elton is under consideration for a high-level appointment as a special assistant on Alaska issues in the Interior Secretary’s office.
Rouse said keeping up with Alaska friends has helped keep his affection for the place strong.
“The other thing I always say about Alaskans is, once you make a friend in Alaska, you make a friend for life,” he said.
I love how Palin is shining a spotlight on them all. She has a megaphone and is putting it to great use in exposing the dirty nature of the Demonrat machine.
I know COS = chief of staff, but, here I think you could also make it analogous to POS.