Dean Disses Obama On Way Out

“Don’t let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha!”  Barack Obama, who thinks he’s already president, (a step down, in my opinion, from his current position, Grand Poohbah of All He Surveys) didn’t even have the decency to say that much publicly to PUMA nemesis Howard Dean’s face.  At one of his innumerable mandatory demands for media attention, this time announcing what the world already knew, (like he always does) Tim Kaine as new Democratic National Committee Chair, Camp ObamaWorship made sure former Chair, and architect of the 50 State Strategy Obama stole and molded to his will, was thousands of miles away being…DNC Chair.  From Politico:

The conspicuous absence of Howard Dean from Thursday’s press conference announcing Tim Kaine’s appointment as Democratic National Committee chair was no accident, according to Dean loyalists.

Rather, they say, it was a reflection of the lack of respect accorded to the outgoing party chairman by the Obama team.

Despite leading the party in consecutive triumphant election cycles – as well as through off-year races like when Kaine was elected Virginia governor in 2005 – Dean has become all but invisible since Election Day, passed over for the Cabinet position he coveted and apparently not in line for another administration post.

Indeed, when President-elect Barack Obama introduced Kaine at party headquarters Thursday afternoon, Dean was 7,023 miles and seven time zones away, closer to French Polynesia than Washington, doing party grunt work in American Samoa.

In the article largely critical of Obama’s snub, until they get to the contractually obligated part where they have to find somebody to offer an opinion that justifies Obie’s actions, Politico chronicles just how pissed off Dean and his allies are.  One of the people they found to make nice was Dean himself, (well, not actually Dean, but a tape of Dean) who, in an MSNBC Hardball interview with the Leg Tingler Who Will Not Run, conducted before Dean was banished to the other side of the world, said he was happy with the job he’d done, Obama was “da bomb,” no hard feelings, blah, blah, blah.  But, because it’s hard for even psuedo- compromised journalists (especially a right leaning one writing about the left) to sacrifice every shred of their integrity and dignity under their own byline, Jonathan Martin couldn’t help himself from including this juicy morsel from Dean about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s defiant appointment of Roland Burris at the very end:

“You gotta hand it to Blagojevich,” said Dean of the embattled Illinois governor’s brazen appointment of Roland Burris to succeed Obama in the Senate. “What a maneuver! What a maneuver! When his back was against the wall he outsmarted a lot of people.”

Et tu, Howie?  Looks like more and more Dems are going to sleep at night with visions of hidden knives dancing in their heads.

As The Unity Pony Dies

“No Drama Obama?”  Are you kidding me?  All that’s missing from this soap opera is the 40’s style announcer and the creepy pipe organ music.

Dooo reeeeeee! Dooodle looodle  looodle  looodle baaaaahhhhhh!

“What’s that you say Boopie?  You feel like the bigots your friends colleagues in the Good Ol’ Boys Club you front for are starting to show their true colors?  Starting to turn their backs on you?  Trying to keep you “in your place?”  (Insert peppy Dixie music here)  Well, tough toenails, Toots!  They are!”

Harry Reid’s “he’s not the boss of me” comments are a sure sign all is not well in ObaLand.  Dianne Feinstein’s “who does he think he is, he fucked up” sentiments are another.  But, the clearest signal that Obama’s on his own if he thinks he’s really in charge of anything came today, with the dissent expressed by certain Senators, like Kent Conrad, John Kerry, and Ron Wyden willing to go on record that they’re not on board with the Teflon TelePrompTer Reader’s stimulus plan.  From the Associated Press:

President-elect Barack Obama’s proposed tax cuts ran into opposition Thursday from senators in his own party who said they wouldn’t do much to stimulate the economy or create jobs. Senators from both parties agreed that Congress should do something to stimulate the economy. But Democratic senators emerging from a private meeting of the Senate Finance Committee criticized business and individual tax cuts in Obama’s stimulus plan.

Reid’s “caught on tape” comments about Blagojevich’s potential picks for replacements to Barack Obama’s Senate seat reflect either his bigotry or stupidity; maybe both since he doesn’t seem to have sense enough to be quiet.  Claiming concern for “electability” Reid sought assurances from Blags that he would reject 3 black politicians in favor of his approved list of acceptable ones.  In lieu of evidence of some other rationale, one would have to conclude that race was Reid’s deciding factor.  The stupid part is, Illinois is the only state in the Union with a recent history of electing black Senators.  Given that the racial component inherent in his “standing in the Senate door” to block Burris’ appointment was getting played up by more entities in more places than race-baiting Bobby Rush at Blago’s press conference, Reid publicly involved  Burris in his attempt at absolution.  From Salon:

Majority Leader Harry Reid and his deputy, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, met with Burris Wednesday morning. In a press availability that followed, Reid repeatedly complimented Burris personally, and addressed the racial issues that have bubbled up throughout the controversy, saying, “One of the first things he said to us, hey, this is nothing that’s racial, I understand that. So a lot of people tried to make this a racial issue, but Roland Burris has not and will not.”

When they go out of their way to tell you what something isn’t, it usually gives you a good idea just exactly what it is.  At any rate, cracks are showing in the Democrats’ united front, some of which involve black people, and there’s a black guy supposedly in charge.  How they play these realities says a lot about…well…a lot of things.  Especially about the guy in charge.  The truth is, as long as the facts are what they are, some people will exploit them to their advantage, while others will be victimized by them, just like they were in the primaries and general election.

Let’s face it, Obie, the Unity Pony is on life support.  So, either get on your knees and start blowing in it’s mouth, or kick the training wheels off the shiny new President bike you got for Christmas and drive the bad guys off into the sunset.  Strap it up Cowboy, we’ve seen this movie before.

Oh, and be careful with this Blagojevich impeachment thing.  If you don’t have enough ammo to finish him off, you might be better off leaving him alone.  Cornered wounded animals can get a bit testy.

Just sayin’.

The Obabus Blows A Rod

As anybody in the PUMAsphere could have told them, and did, the Keystone Kops of the coming Obacratic administration have been forced to begin furiously backpedaling from their ridiculous perch on their improbably high horse and do what everyone with a modicum of common sense knew they were going to have to do all along, seat Governor Rod Blagojevich’s pick to replace Barack Obama in the Senate, Roland Burris. This was a no-brainer for even the Sesame Street set.  Even the pre-toilet training crowd knows you can’t take your ball and go home just because you don’t like somebody.

And, now that Blagojevich has played the acolytes of the Teflon TeleprompTer Reader with the virtuosity of Itzhak Perlman on his prized  Stradivarius, the world now knows something else PUMAs have been saying all along, Obama is playable.  It’s worth remembering however, it’s easy to  kick somebody’s butt who’s fond of bending over and showing their ass.  But, you’ve gotta wonder, if the guys now in charge are so gullible as to fall for the okey-doke and cave to the game of the first poofy haired crook who comes along, what’s to make anybody think they would fare any better in a real crisis?  Pointless, impotent saber rattling in a pissing contest only ensures you’re gonna get wet.  Butching up after the Golden Shower, as the Illinois Obacrats are trying to do with their impeachment chest beating,  doesn’t make you look, smell, or feel much better, either.

While Blago’s chess move, beautifully executed, effectively put the Obacrats in check, it wasn’t particularly innovative, and shouldn’t have been unexpected.  He basically castled, or switched places with his rook, giving himself cover.  The Obacrats, trying to play political chess the “Chicago Way,” i.e., like a game of X-treme football on steroids, predictably proved to be way out of their league.  With their rookie quarterback, combined with their own lack of experience and questionable testosterone levels, they were toast from the coin toss.  And, they’d barely even lined up for the kick-off before they fumbled.

With the world of hurt we inhabit getting more painful by the second, the Rookie Quarterback Who Would Be King is giving interviews on the sidelines, reading stock answers to new questions from his portable, soon-to-be-patented TelePrompTerToGo.  But when even his favorite cheeleaders like Dana Milbank and Howard Fineman start pointing and laughing in his face, can a blindside tackle from the sidelines be far behind?  One thing we can be sure of, though, when the going gets tough, the Puff will probably punt the pawn.