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The President Is 'Keeping Score'

Chicago politics has moved into the White House.
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.

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.

Why not target members of both parties? When someone has the Machinery of Chicago Politics in place, when all one knows is 'community organization', why CHANGE now? MoveOn.Org, ACORN, all these 'communities' are kept running at high speed, and pressuring anyone who questions the schemes of Barack Hussein Obama. Even now, 5 months after the election, I'm still getting e-mails from David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, asking for money.

What sort of 'score keeping' is O! up to? Why, it 's the trusty well-used Alinsky Narrative..

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.

Well, Mr. Obama, there's plenty of scorekeeping going on around here. Every single time you open your mouth, it seems, you screw up, and that ever-watchful scorekeeper, the Stock Market, is reacting. There's some numbers you can't threaten. You can come out and fire GM's CEO Rick Wagoner (instead of that idiot Tim Geithner) and watch the market react, down, down, down baby. Or, as lovely and talented Ann Coulter points out

Apparently, it's OK for Obama to fire the head of General Motors, but Bush can't fire his own U.S. attorneys.

It is generally agreed that the Obama administration's demand that Rick Wagoner resign as chairman of General Motors is the price of GM's accepting government money.

To promote the sales of GM vehicles, Obama says the government will stand by your GM car warranty. And all the taxpayers will get a lube job. The new GM owner's manual will come with a disclaimer: "Close enough for government work."

Now that we're all agreed that the government can make hiring and firing decisions based on infusions of taxpayer money, I can think of a lot more government beneficiaries who are badly in need of firing.

Just off the top of my head, how about Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and everybody at the Department of Education?

How about firing all the former Weathermen, like Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Mark Rudd, whose university salaries are subsidized by the taxpayer?

None of those crooks, liars and real-live terrorists who deserve to be fired (at best, fired: some need imprisonment) are getting pink slips, but damned if Obama doesn't put it to a Capitalist.

Meanwhile, Tim Geithner's Treasury Dept. machinations are worrying to Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz..

What the Obama administration is doing is far worse than nationalization: it is ersatz capitalism, the privatizing of gains and the socializing of losses. It is a “partnership” in which one partner robs the other. And such partnerships — with the private sector in control — have perverse incentives, worse even than the ones that got us into the mess.

And no happy moment for taxpayers, who are stuck with these losses. Mortages that were thoughtlessly created; greed-fueled and government-mandated. We should not suffer these losses; let the bankers and politicians and fund managers who enabled these losses suffer mightly. The gilloutine of capitalism is bankruptcy: let's hear it sing. There will be a turn around eventually; we will come back stronger than ever, if we allow the free market to work. Government stimulus, Keynesian economics, those are losing propositions.

We must stop funding these bailouts. We've got to allow the markets to sort themselves out, without government meddling. Any further government meddling. Any more money spent on GM and Chrysler; on absorbing toxic assets held by banks, is money coming out of our grandkid's future earnings in the form of punishing taxes and lower standards of living. And, a government that's more socialist than we've ever known. Not America as I know her; but America as dreamed of by a petty scorekeeper.

TANSTAAFL: and the lunch we eat today, the bailouts on the Obamenu, represent food taken from out of the mouths of our children, tomorrow.