White House Hoping For GOP Takeover?

[naaman fletcher]

Buried in a Politico story today on the growing friction between the House Democrats and the White House is an intriguing bit of news from an unnamed insider: House Democrats are beginning to wonder if the White House is intentionally throwing them under the bus:
One Democratic official ... (said) some Democratic House members actually believe that the White House “wouldn’t mind having a foil, and that foil is a Republican (House) majority — that would serve their political purposes going into 2012.”

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http://blogs.investors.com/capitalhill/index.php/home/35-politics/1393-white-house-hoping-for-gop-takeover

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Yes I know sources are questionable at best. I could see HRC thinking this way, but not Obama.

[Jennicut]

1. At this point the Senate looks worse to me.

[aquart]

2. You can see Hillary thinking this way but not Obama?

You really had a driving need to utter that drivel?

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Politico. Enough said.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. I don't understand the logic of this. Please explain? n/t

[bluestateguy]

5. Yes the sources are questionable

So questionable that you should not have repeated it here.

[Fridays Child]

11. "One Democratic official," "political experts," "some Democrats."

Do these qualify as "sources," on any level?" The only actual quote comes from someone who says it isn't true. I think I'll alert on this thread--something I've done only maybe four times, since DU began.

[Pirate Smile]

6. That comes from House members whining. That isn't from the WH.

[villager]

7. But one could certainly see Rahm thinking this way, yes?

n/t

[TheWraith]

10. No. You'd have to be insane to even think that.

Or have no idea what the hell you were talking about.

[villager]

18. Or you'd have to forget all about the existence of Dick Morris in the Clinton White House

n/t

[Kokonoe]

8. If President Obama is for a Republican congress then

Republicans will vote for a Democrat.
Its 3-D chess.

[TheWraith]

9. It's Politico. Enough said.

Don't track that shit in here.

[Drunken Irishman]

13. STOP COPYING ME!

:P

[mulsh]

15. Politico via Investors Business Daily, al

Totally reliable sources I'd say.
:sarcasm:

[pinto]

12. A blog isn't necessarily "news". Often far from it.

:hi:

[Meeker Morgan]

14. 'Unnamed insider' == made up shit the reporter thinks might be true. n/t

[Taverner]

16. What? HRC if anything is a party loyalist

[Midwestern Democrat]

17. I highly doubt this. Bill Clinton only survived the 1994 disaster because

the economy started booming in time for his re-election. If Bill Clinton had had to face a poor economy in 1996, he'd have been dead meat:

a) a president being blamed by the voters for a bad economy
b) a president totally impotent to implement his own domestic agenda
c) a president deeply resented by his own party's congressional delegation for putting them in the minority in the first place

With Clinton, b) and c) were there, but the lack of a) saved him - it made b) far less damaging to his political survival.

Even in spite of winning re-election, the '94 disaster is still a massive black spot on Bill Clinton's political reputation - it was easily the most potent argument against continuing the Clinton dynasty in 2008.

[DrDan]

19. why would Hillary lean toward this and not Obama

Do you have any real reason to believe this? Or is it just your personal bias.

[Echo In Light]

20. Dunno if it's that well scripted/planned, or not, but yes, there's an obvious interest in....

... maintaining the two party ruse, and that really can't happen w/o collusion from the so called 'opposition' (to corporate rule) party