Obama Calls Team From 2008 for Races in Fall

[Mari333]

WASHINGTON — President Obama is reconstituting the team that helped him win the White House to counter Republican challenges in the midterm elections and recalibrate after political setbacks that have narrowed his legislative ambitions.

Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said he had “no interest in sugarcoating” the defeat in Massachusetts. Several party leaders said they expected Mr. Menendez to remain in his position for the rest of the election cycle, but the move by the White House had the effect of subverting at least some of the committee’s authority.

“Our own political operation will be more rigorously in communication with the other elements, so we can compare notes,” Mr. Axelrod said. “What we learned from Massachusetts is that we need to be more assiduous about getting our own data and our own information so we have a better sense of where things stand.”


:P :P Rahm Emmanuel, the White House chief of staff and himself a Clinton alumnus, gave a pep talk at the senior staff meeting last week. “These things go in cycles,” participants recalled him saying. “We’ve got a lot of work to do. Keep your head up and keep going.” :P :P :P!!!!!!

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/us/politics/24union.html?pagewanted=1&src=tptw

[FarPoint]

1. Obama is in free-fall

mostly his own doing....wanting to be fair and balanced with republicans... Of course, they see it as a weakness and run right over him like a substitute teacher.....

then, he chose poorly regarding Wall Street....followed by even our Democratic in both House and Senate were in full blown selfish gouging mode......Obama has been rundown to the ground....now lets see if he can be the "D.C Phoenix" or a lame duck in the making.

[Bluebear]

2. A Rahm Emmanuel pep talk. Rah.

[Mari333]

4. I think Rahm is so out of touch he could be living on Pluto.

[NYC_SKP]

3. My favorite Menendez pic....

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[mzmolly]

5. Did he call Howard Dean?

My guess is no. ;)

[progressoid]

6. Oh, so we get Howard Dean back as DNC chair?