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Showdown Alarms
White House intensifies Scozzafava fiasco. Pete Sessions NRCC’s last stand. Plus: Larry Summers and Susan Crawford’s resignation.
“REPUBLICAN” SCOZZAFAVA
The NY-23 special election on Tuesday has the attention of
the White House at the highest levels, with White House sources
saying that the endorsement of Democrat Bill
Owens by “Republican” Dede
Scozzafava came only after a call from White House
chief of staff Rahm Emanuel asking
that she throw her support behind the Democrat.
On Monday Vice President Joe Biden will visit the district, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Sunday was coordinating with its colleagues in the SEIU as well as the Working Families Party (ACORN) and may spend as much as $150,000 over the next 48 hours to defeat conservative Doug Hoffman. Had polling for Owens appeared stronger on Saturday, the White House was prepared to send former president Bill Clinton into the district as well.
Meanwhile, on the GOP side, as late as Thursday evening, the National Republican Congressional Committee was working on endorsements to shore up Scozzafava, who suspended her campaign on Saturday morning after another round of polling in the upstate New York district confirmed she was running well back of two other candidates in the run-off election.
But hours after Rudy Giuliani spurned the pleas of NRCC chairman Rep. Pete Sessions to endorse Scozzafava, according to NRCC sources, Sessions told staff to suspend anti-Hoffman media efforts online and in the district. “We thought Rudy endorsing would have been the game changer,” says an NRCC source. “But even he wasn’t going to eat the dog food we were trying to sell. We had a lousy candidate and the other guys had a better campaign strategy and more energy.”
Regardless of what happens on Tuesday in the special election between Conservative Party candidate Hoffman and the Democrat Owens, House Republican leaders and staff say there will be repercussions inside the NRCC, which failed to do the most basic vetting of a candidate before backing Scozzafava, who, according to media reports late Saturday, had spent the day calling supporters to encourage them to vote for the Democrat in the race.
“We didn’t,” says the NRCC source about checking Scozzafava’s voting record and her previous campaign history for the New York state legislature. “The local party endorsed her; they didn’t endorse Hoffman or anyone else. She was their pick. That’s what we went on.” But the aide added that even then, that should not have precluded the NRCC from withholding endorsements and funds to the candidate who clearly was not a Republican in the traditional sense of the term.
“We assumed she was a lot like other northeastern Republicans, similar to the [Susan] Collinses of the world,” says the aide. “We had no idea she was that far to the left until we started reading about her on the blogs. By then, given the way politics and this place [Capitol Hill] works, it was too late to turn back.”
RADICAL NEUTRALITY
White House senior adviser Susan Crawford
resigned last week to little fanfare, but some White House
insiders say her leaving may reveal growing tensions inside the
Obama Administration about just how radical the administration
has become in developing policies.
Crawford, who was one of the leading voices during the Obama transition period, and then stayed on as Obama’s key adviser on technology and communications policy, was credited with putting in place the general policy overlays in those subject areas that guided many of the Administration’s hiring and appointments to the Federal Communications Commission and the Commerce Department. She was a strong proponent of Net Neutrality regulations, which would allow the government to regulate the Internet, and in her role sitting on the president’s councils on economic policy, she supported strong government interventions and controls of private business.
But White House sources say that she ran afoul of senior White House economics adviser Larry Summers, who claimed he and other senior Obama officials were unaware of how radical the draft Net Neutrality regulations were when they were initially internally circulated to Obama administration officials several weeks ago. “All of sudden Larry is getting calls from CEOs, Wall Street folks he talks to, Republicans and Democrats, asking him what the Administration is doing with the policies, and he isn’t sure what they’re talking about,” says one White House aide. “He felt blind-sided, and Susan was one of those people who heard about it.” In the end, the proposed regulations were slightly moderated from the original language FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, a Crawford ally, circulated.
Crawford resigned, citing the need to return to her tenured position at the University of Michigan law school, but White House sources say that when Crawford signed on to the administration, she told them the university had given her a two-year waiver before requiring a return. “There may have been miscommunication there, but we thought it was two years,” says the White House source. Similar waivers — usually two or three years — were given to a number of academics who joined the Bush Administration in various positions back in 2001.
Crawford’s exit comes at a time when some Obama Administration aides, after seeing the fallout from the resignation of Van Jones and the spotlight placed on leftists inside the administration, like Anita Dunn, wonder if it is too late to pull back many of the more radical aides now placed in a number of different cabinet level departments, including the Department of Justice, and the Energy and Education departments, and federal agencies. “They haven’t done us any good on any level,” says the White House aide. “And now they are just a bunch of targets on our back that we can’t shake.”
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Etiquette Man| 11.2.09 @ 6:35AM
Wow! They couldn't even get RINO-Rudy to back Scozzafava?! That's really saying something.
One million dollars the RINO's spent running ads AGAINST a conservative!
The RNC will . . . never . . . ever . . . ever . . . get a DIME from me (barring divine intervention, or maybe a real conservative like Sister Sara on the national ticket).
Etiquette Man is doing pirouettes of glee as the idiot RINO's at the RNC splatter each other with mud. Tee, hee, hee . . .
Go Doug!!!
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Appleby| 11.2.09 @ 6:56AM
TheKids are finding out that indeed the adults DO mean it ... that merely telling us to Get Over It is not going to change our minds about the blatant disaster they are engineering, and we DO notice what is going on.
Look for some serious retrenchment going on as they shuffle the communists and the libertines to less visible profiles under the cover of a ramp-up of the false epidemic that they concocted to divert the proletariat when their global warming scheme collapsed.
The next campaign for those that care about which way the country is headed should be BRING OUT THE EPIDEMIC. Here in Toronto we have had TWO children die of complications from Swine Flu -- in a week where FIVE children were murdered by their parents or the boyfriends of their parents, and others were killed in car accidents and the like. How could this ridiculous panic be anything but a diversion?
Big J| 11.2.09 @ 7:25AM
Yes, the adults do mean it, Appleby.
We are methodically repossessing the kids' cell phones, I-Pods and credit cards, and sending them to their rooms.
With the help of talk radio, Fox News and the blogosphere, a light is being shined on the true agenda of this administration.
I agree wholeheartedly that the swine flu "epidemic" is one massive diversion. Wrote about it back in early May.
http://readmycents.blogspot.co.....rsion.html
Everyone keep your eye on the ball.
stephanie| 11.2.09 @ 8:08AM
Call me dumb, but why the hoopla over the H1N1 thing when more people die from the "regular" flu every winter? And if you're going to create a diversion with an illness, why not have enough of the vaccine around for everyone? THIS is exactly how the "public option" will be. Shortages and long waits in line. WAKE UP LIBERALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bob| 11.2.09 @ 2:28PM
Stephanie -- you must be getting your "facts" from Fox News or Beck. The government isn't producing the vaccine, it is private companies that produce it. The slow down was due to the yield being about half of the projected amount. This was due to a manufacturing flaw that is now fixed.
So according to YOUR logic, since private enterprise couldn't get it right, perhaps the government would be better at it?????
Thanks for your input to the fact free AmSpec zone....
jr| 11.2.09 @ 5:08PM
The producer was making the regular flu vaccine and all of the sudden it was H1N1 time -- too late to get it to the public when it was told to us by Obama dunces who were orchestrating the process. Not to worry about this little flu1 or flu2 thing, Obamacare will kill babies and old people to make up for it.
Nick| 11.2.09 @ 6:08PM
Don't waste your time with 3/5 Bob folks.
In case you didn't know, until recently (last June), 3/5 Bob thought that blacks had 3/5 of a vote under the U.S. Constitution, as originally written.
He also doesn't know when biological HUMAN life begins because he is not sure when "ensoulment" takes place.
He is a pseudointellectual, ignore him.
DaveS| 11.2.09 @ 6:32PM
All of you fails civics if you think blacks had a 3/5 vote under the constitution. You either had 0/5 or 5/5 (if a free black male). The 3/5 was to reduce the slave-holding states from getting representation in the House on the basis of 1/1. The 3/5 was a subtraction of influence from the slave-holding states - not a reduction of black voting effect. In other words, a pro-black arrangement.
Stephanie| 11.2.09 @ 7:01PM
Then why are you hear Bob? Like reading "fact free stuff" Get lost troll.
alyeska| 11.5.09 @ 12:40AM
i THOUGHT you rethugs were against the vaccine because it hasn't been tested ENOUGH -- not you're complaining that the MEDICATION you were refusing to take is in short SUPPLY.
GO BACK TO SLEEP!!!!
drudge ette obama| 11.2.09 @ 7:06AM
Pity the poor law students at the University of Michigan, but then law professors have been brainwashing law students for decades. The usual ratio of liberal to conservative professors is 100:1
Good riddance to Crawford, but Sumners won't have much tenure where he is now, anyway.
Someone follow-up on Crawford down the road. She'll be writing about net neutrality as constitutionally supported, speaking on the law circuit about it and you'll see her on the news shows blithering on about how important it is to free speech. After a while, people start to believe it, the law students become lawyers who implement the concepts, and someone will propose renaming the United States of America because it means something that Europe finds offensive.
martin j smith| 11.2.09 @ 8:24AM
Re: RNCC and NY 23: Incompetence,collusion with RINOS ? Does not matter. This example shows the ineptitude of Republican lack of leadership or curruption or both. So here is an idea: Change We Can Believe In.
Kevin| 11.2.09 @ 1:11PM
Sorry. Not gonna happen.
This is about the grownups shutting down the party, and knocking some sense back into the partiers.
alyeska| 11.5.09 @ 12:46AM
this is really about a bunch of crazies hijacking the republican party and running off all of the intelligent people, replacing them with nutjob, birther-types.
and more power to you :)
martin j smith| 11.2.09 @ 8:27AM
Here is one other point: In New Jersey: There is Crzine or Christie. Who would you rather have if you lived in NJ ? Christie is not hard core conservative.
martin j smith| 11.2.09 @ 10:47AM
You can bet that there will be fraud in this election. And what will the Republican Party do to prevent it?--probably zero. Or perhaps not-time will tell soon enough.
kerry| 11.3.09 @ 12:50PM
I heard Christy on the radio, said that they have hundreds of poll watchers and lawyers at every polling place today.
Dave | 11.2.09 @ 8:55AM
OK, Scuzafava exits after being exposed for what she is: A radical leftist who failed to have her resume (even remotely) glanced over by any of the Gingrich/Lindsey rocket scientists whispering in the ears of the limp ... RNC.
Wow, does I be surprised? Nah!
Meanwhile, get ready for the second front to land. If Don Vito Corzineonie ends up a few hundred or even a few thousand votes short in maintaining his big office at the state capitol in New Mafiaberg ... look for (a) bus loads of recently picked ACORN(s) being dropped into the gangland state to begin the next recount of phantom votes from (1) dead people (2) retired ice fishermen living in Minneasota and (3) more dead people from the *Capone voting rolls of '29 Chicaga'. (*i.e. more dead people)
Think it can't happen? Maybe. But look who the fish heads from Min-a-sooota got stuck with as their new state senator. Why it was none other than the blithering idiot Al "Couldn't Make It On Air America" Franken. Too harsh? Well, this is the same sad state that gave themselves that mumbling, knuckle dragger Jessie "What Wasz 'da Question Agin'?" Ventura.
Me? I'd keep an eye on the New Jersey bus terminal. With the Obama mob paying their fare -the ol' ACORN(s) don't ususally fall too far from the tree.
I'll be watching. Is the RNC? Ain't holdin' my breath.
Ragtop| 11.2.09 @ 11:14AM
Yes, exactly....Acorn to the rescue! So predictable. Maybe even a little "Disenfranchised Voters" action thrown in.
Becky| 11.2.09 @ 9:31AM
Targets on their backs that they can't shake? They are not vicitims, nor are they stuck unless they don't have the ability to actually run the place. And yet, we are to believe they can hold their own in the world against truly despotic, demented enemies.
I believe a prominent Democrat could have coined what is going on as "defining the presidency down." And to add insult to injury, we are all going down with them.
J.C.Eaton| 11.2.09 @ 10:22AM
This Keystone Cops collection at the RNCC is a wonder to behold.For sheer ineptitude, one has to marvel.Makes one proud to be non-partisan. These boobs couldn't run a whore-house next to the First Infantry Division.
Incompetent Sessions| 11.2.09 @ 11:01AM
The RNCC "leadership" must go.
What a bunch of corrupt, stupid, stubborn, visionless, conniving bunch of political bureaucrats getting fat while further destroying what is supposed to be the "opposition party".
Q: What is Sessions & co being paid for?
A: To conspire to give a million dollars to a leftist professional politician who takes her marching orders from the White House and unions and defeat the successful private CPA with fiscally conservative values and no ACORN connections.
Great move GOP. Brilliant.
Can't wait to see what Obama's third or fourth term brings us with idiots like this steering the "opposition" ship.
Ship of fools filled with vain pols with no character, just a yen for money and influence.
Newt Gingrich is the prime example of why Americans and conservatives are so disgusted with the Republican party. Sessions, Dole, Graham.....all just fiddling away while Rome burns by the light of Hope n Change.
It's getting to be tar n feathers time for the average American whose common sense values seem to be totally absent from the Republican party as a machine. The bright spots with R next to their name in Washington seem few & far between.
What a bunch of bumbling idiots we have to protect the public from the Dems madness.
Mike Rogers| 11.2.09 @ 11:18AM
My vision of the future is rather biblical.
I have this dream of Sister Sarah marching through the halls of Congress and kicking out all the whores and moneylenders from the People's Temple!
What say you folks?
More of us are conservative than anything else.
Let's make it so!
Adam Smith| 11.2.09 @ 11:38AM
I'd say you've fixated on a politician who is more image than substance and is unelectable.
I like Palin as a person but do not want her as a canidate for president as she can not win, nor do I think she is sharp enough.
Neither Palin or Hucksterbee can win.
SoCon| 11.3.09 @ 1:13AM
Buzz off, Concern troll. Go back to your fellow liberal freaks and perverts at HuffPo; it's where you belong.
Palin 2012
GrumpyAntwerpian| 11.2.09 @ 12:06PM
I live in the 23rd, and am soooo sick of the phone calls. I hang up on every one of them now. So if a poll was taken, it didn't include my vote to be for Hoffman.
And thanks Biden for having the Secret Service shut down half of our city just so you can breeze into town. Some of us have jobs to get to!!!
Al Adab| 11.2.09 @ 2:12PM
"Moderation in the pursuit of Liberty is no virtue," to borrow a phrase. A Republican running to the left of a Democrat is an embarrasment.
Apparently the RNC got the message at least in NY-23. Whether that carries over to other districts and funding efforts remains to be seen.
Osamas pajamas| 11.2.09 @ 3:17PM
Who knows how NY23 will turn out? It does sound like the RNC had started to believe Demo propaganda. But to the extent that the Republicans subscribe to the limited-cost limited-government free-market peace-thru-strength ideas and policies, THEY HAVE THE SUPERIOR PRODUCT, so why compromise on it or give it up?
Larry Pollins| 11.2.09 @ 4:49PM
I think it's pretty good when Joe Biden "Our wonderful vice president" could'nt fill up the North Side Improvement League in Watertown today. Sounds to me that the Dems are running scared in this election. Mr. Biden only played to a crowd of about 250 and 50 of those were from the media. Way to go Joe. I'm sure you were good for a few laughs today!
jr| 11.2.09 @ 5:13PM
Nothing wrong with a conservative winning in NY23. It is a hellava lot better than most of the the jerks now in Congress.
DaveS| 11.2.09 @ 6:36PM
Just don't confuse Pete Sessions with Senator Jeff Sessions. Also, the lessons of a lack of vetting and the lack of a primary will be lost in due time.
Anthony| 11.2.09 @ 10:29PM
So which idiot, other than Sessions, heads up the NRCC? Is it Newt? Maybe it's General Powell. Maybe you highly paid professional pols at the NRCC can starting eating all that left over dog food?
"We didn't do our homework" No s... Shurlock. And these bufoons think they are the best and the brightest!!
I think we conservatives need to send cans of ALPO to our Establishment Republicans over at the RNC when they ask for donations.
When they say this dog won't hunt, they had the RNC in mind. What a bunch of clueless hacks who couldn't find their own asses if their hands were glued to them. Bow Wow.
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alyeska| 11.4.09 @ 6:48AM
perhaps rush's wildly witty remark about dede screwing republicans had something to do with owens win.
stay classy rush -- and the rest of you dittoheads and beckerheads.
You Lost!
Nick| 11.4.09 @ 6:14PM
Scozzafava, Corzine, and Deeds were memebers of the democrat party!
You lost, marxist troll.
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