Obama's winning strategy will be retested soon

Los Angeles Times ^ | October 17, 2013 | By Kathleen Hennessey and Christi Parsons

[Cincinatus' Wife]

WASHINGTON — It's been a constant quandary for the Obama White House: Should the president reach out to his Republican opponents or isolate them? Should he compromise to move his agenda or try to split the GOP ranks? Carrot or stick?

[BIG SNIP]

Democrats continue to debate how the president should approach that process — offering concessions or lines in the sand. This week, former Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told reporters he thought Obama should put "everything on the table," as well as do more to build relationships with Republicans.........

[Neera] Tanden [president of the Center for American Progress] scoffed at the notion that the president's poor relationships with Republicans were driving the division.

"I look at Leon Panetta, who I have a great deal of respect for — but what planet has he been on?" she said, arguing that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) did not try to repeal Obamacare because "Barack Obama hasn't taken him out for a drink."

"Republicans look at their self-interest," she said....

[FreeperCell]

I think the revolt will be similar to the protests of the 1960’s. People will be driven out to the streets in anger. How fitting for these people.

[jersey117]

Obama is going to crash and burn when companies start sending the open enrollment forms around. In the next couple of weeks, those of us who actually work for a living will know their fate. How much will their premiums go up? How high will their deductibles go? Is their employer switching plans? Are their doctors on the new plan? Are they being kicked onto the “exchange”? Are they dropping healthcare and paying the fine? Are they getting their hours cut? Was granny kicked off of supplemental insurance? TSWHTF very soon.

[VRWC For Truth]

The Clown is a clown and will never change.

[PubliusMM]

Let’s look a bit closer...

Should the president reach out to his Republican opponents or isolate them? Alinsky says, “Isolate them.”
Should he compromise to move his agenda or try to split the GOP ranks? Alinsky says, “Split them up. Set one upon the other.”
Carrot or stick? Alinsky says, “Always the stick; don’t hold back.”

There is no mistaking the strategy employed by this commie-in-chief. It is taken directly from the dhimmicrap playbook, and executed with fervor, focus, and finality.

[Carry_Okie]

The insurers don’t yet have a clear overall sense of the risk profile of the people who are signing up, but the circumstantial evidence they have is very distressing to them. The danger of a rapid adverse selection spiral is much more serious than they believed possible this summer. They would love it if the administration could shut down the exchange system, at least the federal one, until the interface problems can be addressed. But they know this is impossible.

The money quote. It was inevitable. As long as the penalty is much less than the deductible for an average policy, people will pay the tax and gamble with their health.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[But Chauncey Gardner comes to mind.]

From PJ Tatler blog:

Vernon Jordan, the big-time Washington lawyer (and a solid Democrat), tells the story of a golf game in which Obama was partnered with New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also is in a very select group of true experts on the financial markets. Afterward, Bloomberg remarked that, through four hours of riding the cart with the mayor, Obama asked his golf partner not a single question about anything.

[Cyber Liberty]

It's been a constant quandary for the Obama White House: Should the president reach out to his Republican opponents or isolate them? Should he compromise to move his agenda or try to split the GOP ranks? Carrot or stick?

I see no evidence of any "quandary." He's been quite consistent with his attacks.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....Obama asked his golf partner not a single question about anything.

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

[sport]

What winning strategy? With the exception of Cruz and Lee, he is fighting unarmed cowards who are focusing their energies on destroying Cruz and Lee. They remind me of a pack of hyenas.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I support what she said.

We have become elitist, in part.

[Spok]

Obama says “Washington has to change”. If he was referring to the corruption that would be great, but what he really wants to end is the constitutional structure of the balance of powers. Nothing short of an absolute dictatorship will please him.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/329219-obamas-hollow-debt-victory

.............”I think we have fully now acquainted our new members with what a losing strategy that is,” McConnell told The Hill in an interview.

Obama on Thursday, as the GOP licked their wounds, pledged to “look for willing partners” across the aisle to “get important work done.”

But another former senior administration official said Obama’s second term is dependent on the outcome the “Republican Civil War,” and whether Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is willing to pass an immigration bill without a majority of the GOP.

“If John Boehner wants to play ball and is finally willing to ditch the Hastert Rule, there’s no limit on what can get done,” the former official said.

“If, however, he only compromised to avoid catastrophic default and now wants to restore control of the House to the Tea Party, very little will get done.”

[CodeToad]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cincinatus' Wife.

This week, former Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told reporters he thought Obama should put "everything on the table," as well as do more to build relationships with Republicans... [Neera] Tanden [president of the Center for American Progress] scoffed... "I look at Leon Panetta, who I have a great deal of respect for -- but what planet has he been on?"

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