White House Panic

I’m actually getting a bit of a kick out of this. It’s one of those two handed things. You know, on one hand we’re seeing brutal punishment of people who did us wrong. On the other hand, the only people this truly benefits are bat shit crazies. Anyway, here’s the CBS version of Karma with the fun title of “ Analysts: White House Panicking Over Elections:Say Dems Are Distancing Themselves From Obama, Angry Over Economy, Health Care Fallout”. Excuse me while I laugh for a very long time.

With many polls indicating the Republicans may win back control of the House of Representatives (and possibly the Senate as well) in the upcoming mid-term elections, Jim VandeHei, the executive editor of Politico, told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the Obama administration is in a horrible position.

“Does the White House understand this?” asked guest host Harry Smith. “Do you feel any sense of panic or concern” on the part of the administration?

“They get it. There’s panic. There’s concern,” VandeHei said. “The reality for this administration stinks, politically and practically, when it comes to the economy. You’re not going to be able to change that 9.6-percent unemployment figure. You can’t get anything from Congress in the next couple of months.”

CBS Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes said the Democrats are distancing themselves from President Obama.

“Not only are they running away from President Obama, they’re running away from being Democrats in some cases. In some races you actually see the Democratic candidates not really mentioning that they’re a Democrat in their campaign ads,” Cordes said.

Smith asked his guests to try to identify the source of the discontent: “From your experience on the Hill, have you heard any Democrats in private conversations say, ‘You know what? We went down the wrong road. We went after health care. We went after so many other things on the Obama agenda as opposed to, in the end of the day, it’s all about creating jobs?'”

I think we can all agree that nearly all of us at TC can say: WE TOLD YOU SO!!!

(Consider this an open thread.)