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Reacting to Mass. Rebellion, White House Beefs Up Outside Political Arm
ABC News ^ | January 23, 2010 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 01/24/2010 6:50:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Still reeling from the upset victory of Sen.-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass., earlier this week, President Obama is augmenting the political operation at the White House by bringing several key 2008 campaign aides back into the fold.

Senior White House officials tells ABC news that Obama for America campaign manager David Plouffe will soon set up shop at the Democratic National Committee to oversee House, Senate, and gubernatorial races this fall, in what is shaping up to be a difficult political environment for Democrats.

"Plouffe is one of the smartest guys in the business, he has the full trust of the President and his team, and we appreciate any and all help he can give us," White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said. "This is a very challenging political environment and you want all the best players on the field."

In the wake of the loss of the Massachusetts Senate seat -- the first time a Republican has been elected to represent the Bay State since 1972, when President Obama was 11 -- the president has ordered a review of the Democratic Party's entire political operation.

In addition to the return of top aides such as Plouffe, other mid-level operatives from the 2008 Obama campaign who helped bring candidate Obama victories in Iowa and in Feb. 5 "Super Tuesday" primary states, will be enlisted to work on campaigns to keep expected Democratic losses to a minimum, aides said.(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2010; congress; davidplouffe; democrats; ma2010; massachusetts; obama; scottbrown
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Good luck with all that...
1 posted on 01/24/2010 6:50:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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If David Plouffe is such a smart guy why was it he forgot to tell Obama that if he got elected he should appoint top level first-class minds with impecable criminal records to the various agencies.

Instead, he seems to have thought it enough to put the guy into office without further guidance ~ the result being he's appointed the largest gaggle of third-rate help in American history.

2 posted on 01/24/2010 6:53:34 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Plouffters are going to be a disaster for the blue dogs but an advantage for us.


3 posted on 01/24/2010 6:53:45 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pfeiffer’s Plouffters are going to save the day for the ‘RATS? Cool.


4 posted on 01/24/2010 6:54:51 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (J.D. Hayworth for Senate!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The beginning of the end for the Ploufester.


5 posted on 01/24/2010 6:56:31 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: cripplecreek

As a total aside: how would you like to go through life with a name like Plouffe?

High school must’ve been a bitch. Of COURSE you’d eventually ally yourself with the most subversive (and queer) segment of the ‘Rat party.

I almost feel sorry for the Ploufester.

Almost.


6 posted on 01/24/2010 6:59:29 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can you hear us now?

Regards,

The grassroots tea party


7 posted on 01/24/2010 7:01:11 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Join the TEA Party Rebellion!! May God and TEA save the Republic!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

There’s gonna be a bloodbath within the party. They try replacing Bart Stupak with a Sheila Jackson Lee clone in that district and it will end up in GOP hands.


8 posted on 01/24/2010 7:02:25 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I am that light-skinned guy who can speak without a Negro dialect, with my trusty podium, microphones, teleprompters, monitors, Presidential Seal and my special presidential rug with all 57 states. And I offer you hope and change.”
Barack Obama AKA Barry Soetero AKA `Mack Baby Daddy’

“Still reeling from the upset victory of Sen.-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass., earlier this week, President Obama,”
A(lready) B(een) C(hewed) nooze channel

“Various representatives of the Barack Obama administration were out on the Sunday talk shows in the U.S. today, trying to spin the election of Senator Scott Brown (R -MA) [and how often do you see that abbreviation?] as being an endorsement of the Obama agenda” (below thread)

Who’s a girl to believe? `Obama’, Gibbs or ABC???


9 posted on 01/24/2010 7:03:40 PM PST by tumblindice ("I'm from the future! Seriously, in 9 years the US president will be a muslim Marxist." 9/12/2001)
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To: Nervous Tick

I went to school with a girl named Anus.


10 posted on 01/24/2010 7:03:55 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: cripplecreek

I do believe you are right.


11 posted on 01/24/2010 7:04:19 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (J.D. Hayworth for Senate!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama thinks that he didn’t campaign hard enough and that’s why he lost Massachusetts. We need leadership, not campaigns. Obama is a far-left ideologue that is incapable of changing his policies and incapable of leading. To Obamaa, we are all ‘stupid’ and just can’t see the ‘upsides’ to Socialism and that’s why he thinks we need it forced on us. If we only tried it, he is really convinced we would love it. It seems the outcome in Massachusetts isn’t going to change Obama and assembling the same team from 2008 isn’t going to make any difference, either. Obama isn’t the same candidate he was in 2008. The light came on in America and people can see the emperor has no clothes.


12 posted on 01/24/2010 7:05:44 PM PST by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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See? Jobs! He created JOBS!

(/sarc, of course...)

13 posted on 01/24/2010 7:06:19 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: cripplecreek

>> I went to school with a girl named Anus.

We need to know more!

Did she shoot the moon?

Or did she bottom out? Lose her pucker?


14 posted on 01/24/2010 7:06:25 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: Nervous Tick

I don’t know but her dad was a real ass hole.


15 posted on 01/24/2010 7:07:22 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Either that or Stupak says screw it and switches parties.


16 posted on 01/24/2010 7:08:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: cripplecreek
I went to school with a girl named Anus.

Rectum? Hell, it killed...

Never mind, wrong joke...

17 posted on 01/24/2010 7:11:36 PM PST by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others.)
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To: cripplecreek

>> They try replacing Bart Stupak with a Sheila Jackson Lee clone in that district and it will end up in GOP hands.

On the other hand, there’s a chance (albeit an outside one) that Sheila Jackson Lee herself may crap out!

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/politics&id=7200495


18 posted on 01/24/2010 7:12:51 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Problem: Unemployment. Recession. Terrorist Attacks. Illegal alien incursions. Enormous deficits. Equally enormous bankruptcy and default rates. Collapse of numerous financial institutions. Insolvency in several major regulatory/entitlement programs, including Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Medicare, Social Security. Documented cases of corruption, influence peddling, and bribery in gov't and gov't-funded organizations Loss of confidence in gov't and economy.

Solution: Hire more PR people.

19 posted on 01/24/2010 7:18:40 PM PST by ZOOKER ( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
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To: cripplecreek

Do you think he would? That would be interesting.


20 posted on 01/24/2010 7:19:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (J.D. Hayworth for Senate!)
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