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2011-10-09 Home Front: Politix

GOP vows retaliation after Reid uses nuclear option in Senate

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Posted by Fred 2011-10-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Cause meet effect.

Land swindler, meet businessman.

Posted by newc 2011-10-09 00:34|| 2011-10-09 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 What does he do?

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Insider: Iâm at my desk here right? Weâre sitting here having this conversation. How about we take a look at what the president would look like in the same situation? Walk into that room â that office of his on the 2nd floor. He spends less and less time downstairs â thatâs Daleyâs world now. The president doesnât like the Oval Office much â heâs made that point repeatedly to more than a few at the White House. He prefers to be upstairs, no suit. No shoes. No joke â

Ulsterman: (Interrupts) âShoes?

Insider: Yeah â shoes. President Obama, when he is in his de facto office upstairs â the one that is closer to Jarrettâs own office, and a short hop over to the residence, he spends his time there often in shorts, or sweats, a t-shirt, and those sandal thingsâ¦flip-flops. There is a large screen television in there and thatâs where hours of his time are spent when he is actually at the White House. Day in and day out. The First Lady rules the residence, and the president heads over to his 2nd floor West Wing study. Starting around last spring, he started to take regular briefings in there. And the instructions that went out on those briefings to the president were that they were to be most importantly â brief. Anything more than about 15 minutes is unacceptable to Obama. So letâs look through the eyes of someone heading into Barack Obamaâs upstairs office at the White House to give him a briefing. Maybe itâs on national security. Maybe the economy. Energy policy. Whatever â doesnât matter. The scenario being played out these days is pretty much the same regardless of the particulars. You knock on the door â itâs always closed. Always. Often you have to knock for some time before being given approval from inside to enter. The big screen will be on â the volume loud. You can easily hear it from outside the door. The sports channels are the ones most commonly playing, though sometimes the channel will be set to music, or Fox News. Sometimes Valerie Jarrett might be there, but most often it is just the president and his personal aide. A large leather chair will be facing the television â itâs well worn. Not part of the White House furnishings but something the president must have brought in from back home. Thatâs where youâll most often find the President of the United States â the most powerful man in the free fucking world. He often sits with one leg draped over one of the chairâs arms and the other leg stuck straight onto the floor. Shorts, sweats, a t-shirt, and like I said, no shoes or just those sandal things that so many of the younger people like to wear these days. And that leg thatâs draped over an arm of the chair will be bopping up and down, likeâ¦like someone with a lot of nervous energy. Like a kid does. And thereâs the smell of smoke hanging on the president. The guy never quite smoking â that was all bullshit. I told you that already. In fact, thereâs one of those smokeless ash trays on the desk in there. And that desk, itâs a mess. Magazines spread out all over it. Stupid shit too. Real low brow reading material the president is into. People. Rolling Stone.

Reality or Onion?

Who knows?

Posted by KBK 2011-10-09 12:13|| 2011-10-09 12:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Hm, that belonged in the Obama thread above!

Posted by KBK 2011-10-09 12:20|| 2011-10-09 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 I said this a few days ago on a thread about the Wall Street "Occupation". Probably fits even better here re: KBK....

Rember the Reichstag.

Posted by AlanC 2011-10-09 13:47|| 2011-10-09 13:47|| Front Page Top

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