My initial impression is that Obama is going to outwardly switch to being a hawk on jobs and the economy. He will find ways to beat the GOP young guns over the head with pocket book issues.

We know that Obama, while giving the economy lip service, has totally ignored it in order to concentrate on Obamacare and his other left wing extremist agenda.

He had possession for two years and scored on offense and now is going stay on defense for two years to keep the GOP out of the end zone. That requires a switch in communications emphasis.

He will coordinate this emphasis with the MSM in order to beat the GOP down in the eyes of the electorate in time for the 2012 election.

It is all going to be about winning in 2012 without compromising on the leftist aganda in the White House.

What do you think?

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The 1995 shutdown of the United States federal government was a major political crisis in which the U.S. federal government, as a result of a failure to pass a budget bill, stayed non-essential services from November 14 through November 19, 1995 and from December 16, 1995 to January 6, 1996. The major players were Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich.

 

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There is fair chance that this will happen again. As QE2 is in the work, the value of US dollar will decline by 10-%20% relative to commodity for the next year. The call for restraining federal spending, reduction of new T-bonds issuing and out right anger toward the Federal Reserve's monetary policy will make the Tea Party even stronger. It's hard to say what's going to happen in 2012. If Obama fires all his incompetent neo-Marxist czars and advisors and replace them with center-left Democrats, then things may turn around for him. We'll see.

 

It doesn't hurt to be prepared, and have some extra long-term food storage, water reservoir/collection/filtration, medical/first aid supply, independent energy/heating system and fuel reserve, hygiene supply and, of course, guns and ammo.

 

NYT report on Barry Soetoro's life in Indonesia:

 

In the compound, Mr. Obama often played with the two sons of the physician?s driver.

One time, recalled the elder son, Slamet Januadi, now 52, Mr. Obama asked a group of boys whether they wanted to grow up to be president, a soldier or a businessman. A president would own nothing while a soldier would possess weapons and a businessmen would have money, the young Obama explained.

Mr. Januadi and his younger brother, both of whom later joined the Indonesian military, said they wanted to become soldiers. Another boy, a future banker, said he would become a businessman.

?Then Barry said he would become president and order the soldier to guard him and the businessman to use his money to build him something,? Mr. Januadi said. ?We told him, ?You cheated. You didn?t give us those details.? ?

?But we all became what we said we would,? he said.

 

WASHINGTON (Nov. 8) -- Here's one place with plenty of job openings: the "E" Ring of the Pentagon.

In the next several months, the secretary of defense and four of the six uniformed members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are expected to retire.

This kind of mass exodus of military brass is "virtually unheard of," said John Ullyot, a Republican strategist and former spokesman for the Senate Armed Services Committee. "It's very rare to have so many service chiefs up" all at once, he said.

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Strange things happen during strange times.

 

For those who lived through the seventies and early eighties, there is a little deja vue here.

 

Remeber, inflation puts you into a higher tax bracket even when you have no increase in purchasing power afforded by your income.

Personally I don't think the O is pragmatic enough to take the tack that you suggest. Clinton, who did exactly as you suggested, was pragmatic to the core, and by no means a die hard leftist. Obama, OTOH, is much more ideologically focused. His post election analysis is that he wasn't 'too liberal' he merely failed to communicate the wondrous things he had accomplished.

 

With Emmanuel gone, he doesn't even have pragmatic advisers remaining. He's surrounded by hard core leftist yes men.  Of course I could well be wrong, and he will veer hard to the middle, but I rather doubt it.

I just watched part of Barbara Walters' interview with Barack and Michelle.

Did you know he reads the Bible every morning? Did you know he's written a children's book the proceeds of which is going to people in need?

 

How we haven't seen this side of him until now I'll never know!

Is there an indication here?

 

I suppose that when assessing Obama's political positioning post-election, one needs to keep in mind the probability that Obama is focused almost entirely on his 2012 re-election. What we may be witnessing is a maneuvering for a position of advantage over the GOP on Capitol Hill by the White House as a preliminary to a contest of wills.

 

"On Saturday, Senate Republicans rejected two proposals extending the Bush tax cuts for all but the wealthiest households, prompting Obama to say he was "very disappointed" but determined to find a solution in further negotiations. Obama has said he is willing to back a temporary extension of tax cuts for households earning over $250,000 per year.

 

Obama further enraged his supporters when he announced this week he wanted Congress to freeze the pay of civilian federal government employees as a step toward cutting the huge U.S. budget deficit. The unions have vowed to fight the proposal and Democrats

have called it short-sighted. "

 

 

 

 "Mr. Obama's advisers are reportedly warning Democrats that allowing taxes to rise may cause a double-dip recession. The president can also warn them that it'll be worse to settle this issue after Republicans take over the House in January.

If he fails, taxes will go up for every American on Jan. 1. If that happens, the new Congress would likely rectify the situation within days after being sworn in. The political damage to Mr. Obama would not be undone nearly as quickly. Failure to pass the tax compromise would make the president appear impotent. Confidence among Democrats would collapse. And there would be more challenges to Mr. Obama's leadership from within his own party, perhaps even in the 2012 primaries.

Most importantly, failure would imperil $400 billion in tax cuts that would be a more effective economic boost than Mr. Obama's justifiably ridiculed stimulus. Without much healthier economic growth and far more robust job creation, Mr. Obama has little chance of wooing back the independents who elected him in 2008 yet abandoned Democrats in 2010."