Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on April 2, 2009

Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone

Karl Rove has an eye-opening article today, The President Is ‘Keeping Score’, posted on the Wall Street Journal website. Eye-opening and chilling. Chicago politics are alive and well in our nation’s capitol. But, who honestly didn’t see this coming? Obama is hell-bent to crush anyone who has the audacity to stand in the way of his trillion-dollar-debt-inducing-porkulus monster being approved by Congress.

Whispers and nightmares likely occurring this week with some electeds in DC: Hey, Obama’s from Chicago… Chi-Town, ‘old school’ politics… they fight dirty… don’t take any CRAP from anyone who opposes them, you know what I mean? Remember Capone’s St. Valentine’s Day massacre? Don’t cross him, man, don’t do it. You’ll regret it, I guarantee. Just ignore all the pork and vote ‘yes’… trust me, you’ll be much happier for it and your political career will be much safer. Screw the voters…

Rove was Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush until his resignation in 2007. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. Since leaving the White House, Rove is working as a political analyst and contributor for Fox News, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal.

Here are a few paragraphs selected from Rove’s article:

The President Is ‘Keeping Score’ | Wall Street Journal
April 2, 2009
By Karl Rove

“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.” That’s what President Barack Obama said to Rep. Peter DeFazio in a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus last week, according to the Associated Press.

A few weeks ago, Mr. DeFazio voted against the administration’s stimulus bill. The comment from Mr. Obama was a presidential rebuke and part of a new, hard-nosed push by the White House to pressure Congress to adopt the president’s budget. He has mobilized outside groups and enlisted forces still in place from the Obama campaign.

Members of Congress should also worry about how Mr. Obama is “keeping score.” He is steeped in the ways of Chicago politics and has not forgotten his training in the methods once used by Saul Alinsky, the radical Chicago community organizer.

Alinsky’s 1971 book, “Rules for Radicals,” is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” That’s what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer. (The president’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, went so far as to lash all three from the White House press podium.) It may also explain Mr. Obama’s comments to Mr. DeFazio.

Senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett and her chief of staff, Michael Strautmanis, are in regular contact with MoveOn.Org, Americans United for Change and other liberal interest groups. Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina has collaborated with Americans United for Change on strategy and even ad copy. Ms. Jarrett invited leaders of the liberal interest groups to a White House social event with the president and first lady to kick off the lobbying campaign.

Its targets were initially Republicans, as team Obama ran ads depicting the GOP as the “party of no.” But now the fire is being trained on Democrats worried about runaway spending.

Americans United is going after Democrats who are skeptical of Mr. Obama’s plans to double the national debt in five years and nearly triple it in 10. The White House is taking aim at lawmakers in 12 states, including Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor. MoveOn.Org is running ads aimed at 10 moderate Senate and House Democrats. And robocalls are urging voters in key districts to pressure their congressman to get in line.

Every White House is faced with finding ways to nudge Congress without antagonizing it. But this overt campaign could infuriate members who won’t appreciate being targeted by a president of their own party. They could react by becoming recalcitrant. Should that happen, team Obama will have to recalculate its efforts, especially as the public sours on big spending plans.

In March, a Gallup Poll found that positive impressions of the Obama budget dropped five points. Only 39% now harbor supportive views of it. A CNN/Opinion Research Poll in mid-March found that support for the stimulus bill Mr. Obama signed into law shifted 11-points against the bill in five weeks, with 66% of Americans opposed to a second stimulus bill.

Constitution? Constitution? We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution…

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On his radio program today, outspoken conservative pundit Mark Levin read Karl Rove’s article aloud during the broadcast. He then held back no punches, and criticized and blasted Pres. Obama for being “an iron-fisted ideologue,” using tactics of totalitarian intimidation, much like Mussolini, to keep all dissenters in line. No matter that Obama has a majority with the seats in Congress, he is demanding 100 percent compliance and allegiance, or, he or one of his generals will issue the “we’re keeping score” warning, including Democrats.

Levin is fed up and wants Americans to wake up to what is going on in Washington, what is happening to America. The liberties of American citizens are being destroyed. Mark demands that our Constitution be followed and not dismantled. Levin stated with conviction, after reading the Rove article, that our country and its liberties are in serious danger right now, as they are being treated like “a plaything for a president, a temporary president, as though he’s at a poker game throwing chips at the table… It’s stunning how stupid and dangerous these people are.”

Levin’s hot, new bestselling book Liberty and Tyranny, A Conservative Manifesto (debuted last week in the #1 slot on The New York Times Bestsellers list) is currently breaking all sales records on Amazon and in bookstores across the country: read a recent Frugal Café Blog Zone post, “Mark Levin: I’m in No Damned Mood to Surrender to These People.”

Here’s a link to the Mark Levin Show website—it’s chockful of interviews, articles, and entire radio shows, minus the commercials and news, of “The Great One” in downloadable MP3 format (about a month’s worth of audio files are online at a given time, and they’re free), and much more.

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UPDATE, OCTOBER 14, 2009, more leftist thuggery, Chicago-Alinsky style… this time the vicious attacks are lodged at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh buying the NFL St. Louis Rams:
Gateway Pundit: MSNBC and CNN Slander Rush Limbaugh With Bogus Slavery Quote — Rush Answers (Video) and Figures… Race-Baiter Al Sharpton Wants Rush Banned By NFL and Rush Limbaugh Blasts “Hustlers” Al and Jesse On Their Legacy of Lies (Video) and MORE HATE, MORE SMEARS– Huffington Post “Klans” Rush Limbaugh and Smear Merchants, Communists & Liars Winning… NFL Will Likely Oppose Limbaugh’s Bid and Local Radio Hosts Confronted On Set By Blogger After Smearing Rush (Video)

Additional reading:
Hot Air: Suddenly, business leaders fear Obama
Cam Cannon, Big Hollywood: Obama’s Jedi Mind Trick: We’ve Been Put on Notice
Michelle Malkin: Next time, emulate urban czar Adolfo Carrion and Wasteful pork in the porkulus bill? You don’t say! and Cap-and-trade, “reconciliation,” and the death of deliberation
Gateway Pundit: Rove Plays the Marxist Card… Points to Obama’s Alinsky Roots
Kurt Schlichter, Big Government: Rushing To Trouble
The Right Scoop: President Obama, Please Quit Lying to Me
VotingFemale Speaks!: Obama Brass Knuckles Tactics; The Thug-In-Chief to CBO and Blue Dogs: you’ll be political road kill under my Thug-Bus and
Evan Thomas, Newsweek: Obama’s Nobel Headache
Watcher of Weasels: Crap and Trade – The Obama Legacy Is Taking Shape
The Lonely Conservative: Now Every Day is April Fool’s Day
World Net Daily: Government health care ‘an abyss’ financially – ‘I think there’s going to be no end for the claims’
The Wittenburg Blog: Filling that God-shaped hole (posted Feb. 2008, very astute analysis of Obama and his cult followers)

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