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Washington Prowler
One David at a Time
Plouffe in, Axelrod out?
White House sources say there is increased talk that senior President Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod will exit his post after the mid-term elections, and be replaced by his campaign colleague and business partner David Plouffe.
Plouffe has been holding down the fort at the two’s firm, AKPD Message and Media, and the thinking inside the White House is that Axelrod both needs a break and to begin focusing on 2012 re-election planning.
Meanwhile, Obama, say White House insiders, would like to see if Plouffe’s presence can “shake things up” with a staff that is said to be demoralized. “I remember what it was it like in the last days of Jimmy Carter,” says a longtime Democrat operative. “On certain days, this team rivals that feeling. These kids have no context for what they are going through.”
Plouffe was Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, but chose to stay in the private sector instead of taking a senior White House position. After the special-election victory of Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts, Plouffe upped his role as an outside senior adviser to the President.
Plouffe did stay involved politically with Obama, but did so by working with Organizing for America, the political grassroots organization that evolved from the Obama presidential campaign. But OFA has failed to live up to the expectations the White House and the Democrat National Committee set for the group 20 months ago.”
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JAWilson| 9.16.10 @ 6:50AM
"These kids have no context for what they are going through."
That line defines the whole generation. Welcome to adulthood and get those resumes updated. This thing isn't going to get better for them.
Alert1201| 9.16.10 @ 7:14AM
"But OFA has failed to live up to the expectations the White House and the Democrat National Committee set for the group 20 months ago."
So Obama is going replace one failure with another failure. Great thinking. I'm sure it will work and the dems will stop the conservative steamroller in its tracks.
Nolann Ryann| 9.16.10 @ 7:38AM
Replace one statist with another loud mouthed statist. Yeah that'll get things going. Top that off by promoting the daughter of an avowed member of CPUSA as chief of staff. It's going to be wonderful final two years.
RustyG| 9.16.10 @ 8:00AM
With the way Rove has dissapointed me in the last 36 hours or so, I've come to the realization that he is not so different from Axelrod or Plouffe. If you take into account the public sentiment for politicians in general these days, then in relation what does it say about their "fixers". I have begun to view them just like a mob lawyer. Beholden to neither the public or the rule of law.
Bo Darville| 9.16.10 @ 2:55PM
I think these guys are just paid to win. They're just mercenaries. Remember Morris, who's evidently some sort of Republican, worked for Clinton.
coal carrier| 9.16.10 @ 8:05AM
During the campaign it was all smoke and mirrors. Plouffe was great for what he put up on the monitor for candidate zero. But rocking in the real world is quite different. With unemployment at 9.5%, housing ready to collapse again, the economy in shambles and a movement by the regular working people will be too much for these lightweights to handle. So much for the Roman Columns.
Pecos Pete| 9.16.10 @ 8:24AM
Ditto!
Albert| 9.16.10 @ 9:45AM
Plouffe? Fluff.
megapotamus| 9.16.10 @ 4:07PM
Okay, this friendly and anonymous Dem mucky sez "These kids" don't know how to carry it. Can a more succinct expression of our dilemma be formulated?
No.
Xanthippus| 9.16.10 @ 11:11PM
Like all the other "wonder boys" in BHO's White House, Plouffe will go Poof!
GavInTucson| 9.17.10 @ 2:01AM
http://zeph-online.net/files/poof.jpg
Ellis Wyatt| 9.17.10 @ 2:39PM
Plouffe is probably good at marketing and one can give him credit for his work in the campaign. The problem is the campaign is over and now Obama is forced to defend his failures in actually governing. At this point he is out of material in terms of trying to blame Bush. Plouffe has no clue about economics and is just another mouth piece echoing the same tired democrat lines. I heard him on Medvid's show the other day and was astounded at either his own lack of intelligence regarding basic economics or his ability to try and spin Obama's failures with a straight face. Until the administration's policies change it doesn't matter who is there Axelrod, Plouffe, or anyone else.