Posted on 09/17/2011 4:54:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
One of the most enduring songs from the 1957 Broadway musical, "The Music Man" is named "Trouble"
Trouble, oh we got trouble, Right here in River City! With a capital "T" That rhymes with "P" And that stands for Pool
Yesterday the Democrats had trouble with a capital "T" that rhymes with "C" and that stands for Carville.
As in James. As in my former back-door neighbor. As in husband to Mullfave Mary Matalin.
The James wrote an essay for CNN in which he stated it was time for President Obama to panic. I am not paraphrasing. He wrote that after thinking about the drubbing Obama and his fellow Democrats got in two special Congressional elections - one in Nevada and one in New York City, he wrote:
"What should the White House do now? One word came to mind: Panic."
The election win in Nevada would not normally have raised any eyebrows because it was in a Republican district. But the winner, former State Sen. Mark Amode1 won by a much larger margin than Sen. John McCain won that district in the Presidential election of 2008.
This is called "over performing."
That wasn't the big news. The big news was not just that the Congressional seat formerly held by Anthony "Not Sure If That's a Photo of my Tighty-Whiteys or Not" Weiner was won by a Republican for the first time in 90 years; it was that the Republican won easily and that the heavily orthodox Jewish voters in the district went for the Republican.
As Larry Sabato, University of Virginia professor of political science, correctly Tweeted after the results of the NY-9 special became obvious, it is dangerous to use special elections or polls as predictors of future events.
I replied, via Twitter, "Yes, but in both specials and polls it's better to come in first than to come in last."
In a segment on John King's CNN show last night, Carville and Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher got into it when Belcher pointed out that as bad as President Obama's poll numbers are, the Congress' numbers are worse.
James retorted, "But they keep electing Republicans!
James suggested the President fire people who aren't doing their jobs. Cornell said it was a messaging problem and that's why Obama has gone out to the states to deliver the message himself.
Carville said, "Then fire the communications staff. Communications people are a dime a dozen."
Well, hold on there just one second, Babba Louie.
I was on in the next segment and I took umbrage at that. I said, "I'm a communications person and I don't think I'm a 'dime-a-dozen' guy. I often get 12 or 13 cents a dozen."
I'm going to throw the Carvilles' Washington Post into their bushes every morning for the next two weeks.
James' advice was heavy on the firing business. He wrote:
"Bill Clinton fired many people in 1994 and took a lot of heat for it. Reagan fired most of his campaign staff in 1980. Republicans historically fired their own speaker, Newt Gingrich. Bush fired Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "For God's sake, why are we still looking at the same political and economic advisers that got us into this mess?"
Democrats lost two special Congressional elections, the numbers for initial jobless claims show that employment may be going in the wrong direction, that solar panel company for which we guaranteed a half billion dollars in loans went belly up last week, and James Carville think's the President is surrounded by morons.
Politico reported that the non-partisan Field Poll showed,
"For the first time since Obama took office, fewer than half of state voters approved of his overall performance. In March 2009, 65 percent approved of his job was doing as president and just 21 percent disapproved. By September 2011, just 46 percent approved while 44 percent disapproved."
It is not likely that the Republican nominee - whoever he or she is - is going to win California, but it shows a deep, broad, maybe irreversible erosion of support for the President.
As one pollster who was following that New York race said, "Where [Obama] has lost his support in New York is among the Democrats."
That's trouble. With a capital "T" and that rhymes with "D" and that stands for Democrats.
Minus 100, should be post 12
EXCELLENT!!!!!
I want my next president from a smaller school—like maybe Idaho State.
Carville is honest—he sees the truth—The Dems are on the Titanic and the iceberg is in view. Soon everyone but Obama will see the truth. I said it when he was elected and I will say it now—there will come a day when he will be the most hated man in America.
Please remove me from your ping list. Thank you.
Mmmmmmmm....no.
Hillary says she’s not gonna do it-—she does look all tuckered out from her present job.
Plus the Clintons were devastated when Uncle Teddy told them to back off when they tried to out Obama.
Bill and Hill circulated pics of Obama dressed as a Muslim——but that angered Teddy.
LOL——more like it.
LOL——more like it.
Rumor is that Michael Reagan will run against Queen Dianne Feinstein. If that is true, Reagan will, IMO, beat her. Ronald Reagan is still loved by many in CA. You can take that to the bank, IMO.
It would do you good to get out of Wacko SF; there are sane people living elsewhere in California.
Those would be "jobs created".
The hyper-over-educated dolts he doesn't fire would be "jobs saved"...
The Hildabeast just might do it if for no other reason than pure spite for the late lamented Teddy.
Unless he is paving the way for Hillary......
Certainly.
Yes! but for a different reason.
We need to fire Obama. He is the one with no experience or expertise in the administration. Certainly he appointed all the rest of his staff, which in itself is proof of his own inexperience and lack of expertise.
He appointed a pack of morons, racists, homo’s, and cronies to their jobs,and they are not capable. The man at the top is not capable.
I would maintain that he is eminently qualified as a community organizer and agent-of-change, has surrounded himself with like-minded operatives and they are doing a superlative job of implementing their stated goal of fundamentally changing our government.
The problem here is that the Media and the progressives sold us this package as a legitimate alternative for the leadership of a Democratic Republic! It is not!
This administration is doing on a grand scale what ACORN was originally doing -- trying to overload the system to cause it to fail: first the banking system with overwhelming numbers of bad loans, then the integrity of our election mechanism with overwhelming numbers of bogus registrations. Now, the administration is attempting to crash our economy with unsustainable deficit spending and devalued money. Their Justice Department is provocatively uneven in the application of law, the EPA and Energy Departments are killing the economy by regulation, etc.This weekend, supposed anarchy groups vow to bring down the financial system, Liberal hate speech against conservative voices is unabated and escalating, and if we respond in kind, the administration will move forward "with justification" to further remove our guaranteed rights to speech, assemble, bear arms, be free from unlawful search and seizure, and so forth.
With the willing complicity of the Media, progressives in both the houses, Democrat and Republican, an entrenched corruption, a recipient class about equal in numbers to the doner class, we may be beyond the tipping point.
I do not believe we have reached the tipping poinbt at this time, but an Obama win in 2012 will seal the deal.
We will be beyond redemption.
Spiteing Teddy-—dam good idea.
Very telling ........................................ FRegards
Feinswine just lost her campaign funds to a ‘rat thief. “Oh boy, is this going to be fun!”
Excellent observation.
I have linked a California businessman together with Marco Rubio’s campaign manager and it appears they are going to work together. More on this as it develops and he officially declares his candidacy which should be happening within the next two weeks.
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