All Politics Is Local
Congratulations, New Jersey and Virginia. You’re Obamically insignificant! Gibbs, Virginia and New Jersey politics are local. via CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN) – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed Democratic electoral defeats in New Jersey and Virginia as “two very local elections” that say nothing about President Barack Obama’s standing with the American people right now.
“It’s hard to pick national trends out of local elections,” Gibbs told reporters at a Wednesday briefing just hours after incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine was knocked out despite Obama’s two appearances in New Jersey on Sunday. Obama also had campaigned for Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for governor in Virginia, who lost as well.
Gibbs noted that exit polls showed the number two issue in New Jersey was local property taxes, and claimed that and other data shows the gubernatorial races were decided on local issues “that did not involve the president.”
Bad news, Gibbs. High taxes most definitely involve the president. The people who are tired of paying those high property taxes who voted in Christie are the same ones who will get stuck with the bill on that $1.4 trillion deficit, and may yet get stuck with paying for other people’s health care on top of their own, and there are 49 other states full of them. Gibbs and his boss need to bone up on their ancient Democratic tactical lore. Tip O’Neill: All Politics Is Local.
On second thought, never mind. That old stuff’s irrelevant to Obama’s standing with the American people, ever since Obama reinvented politics.
Laugh out loud fun. TNOYF: The White House Bunker on Election Night.
WSJ, helpfully, on how local to Washington local politics can be:
Yesterday in advance of the results, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was dismissing commentary on the impending bad news as “navel gazing.” If so, navel gazing’s bad reputation is suddenly looking up. The onrushing Obama Democratic machine has just hit a significant speed bump.
Calling Virginia a bellwether might have been a stretch if the result had been close by anyone’s definition. It wasn’t.
No state drew more commentary last year as evidence that the national electoral tide was turning blue.
via HotAir: so if O wasn’t watching himself on HBO, what was White House-TV nexus on election night? NBC’s “The Biggest Loser.” Apparently this is not cruel, hurtful satire.
Barone on the night’s other Biggest Loser: Union thuggery.
Speaking of localizing the politics, Gateway warms today’s “Kill The Bill” protest in DC. Malkin re the GOP’s 12-hour online telecast re health care
Legal Insurrection and Malkin on the pending AARP Obamacare endorsement. Apparently AARP doesn’t think those local elections are relevant, either.
Surber on all the right-wing extremism. Apparently it is very local in America.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:39 am Comments (1) on Thursday, November 5, 2009
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November 5th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Gibbs told reporters that Obama was so disinterested in the results that he wasn’t even bothering to watch the returns and keep an eye on the results.
Seems like Obama says that a lot, usually through Gibbs of course.
Tea parties? What tea parties? Why, the President and I had no idea such a thing was happening, but we really have no time to worry about them. We’re very busy men and the President is trying to save the country, you know. Hundreds of thousands of people will be marching on Washington in protest, you say? Really, I’ve barely heard a thing about it, and have no idea what they’re going on about. It’s so uninteresting compared to the real work we do here every day. We’re far too important to pay attention to such petty things, protests and marches and elections and such.
This would make for a great SNL skit, btw. Think they’ll do it? Naw, it might invite another CNN “fact check.”