Post Election Advise: Dump Pelosi & Obama; Stop Foreclosures; Tax Wall Street
by Webster G. Tarpley
Clinton Initiative — HAITI UPDATE:
The results of last Tuesday’s election must be interpreted as a repudiation of the Obama presidency, and also as a vote in favor of divided government. Voters wanted to end one-party rule in Washington, and this has been accomplished. Voters were more than willing to accept a couple of years of gridlock, since they are not inclined to hand a blank check to the unacceptable and incompetent agendas of either major political party. There certainly was no mandate for the raving reactionary policies put forward by the Republican Party.
A Vote Against Obama and for Divided Government, not in Favor of the GOP
For the first time since World War II, the House of Representatives has changed hands without being accompanied by the Senate. One reason is that the voters have even more contempt for the Republicans than they do for the Democrats, and wanted to do just enough to apply the brakes without allowing the GOP to begin controlling events. The House of Representatives was easy to target because of its foolish vote in favor of cap and trade. The House is also the home of Pelosi, the most demonized figure in the elections. Most important of all may be the fact that House races are the kind of political arena in which massive amounts of outside money injected by reactionary businessmen like the Koch brothers, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Republican Governors’ Association, and other malefactors of great wealth can have the biggest impact. It is much easier for negative advertising paid for by outside interests to determine the outcome in House District than in a state or on a national scale. If this is taken into account, we can explain why the usual 20 to 30 seat loss for the Democrats turned into twice that, with the outside money made possible by the Citizens United Supreme Court decision playing a major role. As for the pluto-candidates, who sought to buy public office outright, they generally fared very poorly. This applies to assorted super-rich reactionaries like Whitman, Fiorina, MacMahon, Raese, and a few others.
Sadly, these events confirm the forecasts made by the present writer in Obama: the Postmodern Coup – the Making of the Manchurian Candidate, published in March 2008 in advance of the Pennsylvania primary, and in Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography, which appeared in August 2008, well before the Democratic National Convention. Obama has always been a recipe for disaster on the same general lines as Jimmy Carter, but on an incomparably larger scale. Obama is in the process of aborting and wasting the golden opportunity of 2008, which would have been to organize a return to the successful policies of the Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal, repeating the historical victory of the American people over pro-fascists and reactionaries in 1932. The resulting political coalition and pattern of dominance in the Electoral College could have lasted until the middle of the 21st century, reducing the reactionary Republicans to total impotence in the status of a regional ethno-cultural force favored by xenophobes and low-wage employers in backward rural areas of the Southern states. Instead, these same reactionaries are now resurgent, thanks in large measure to Obama. If Obama is allowed to stay in office for another two years, and especially if he is allowed to secure re-nomination, he will wreck the Democratic Party for a generation, and will doom all progressive causes to utter defeat for the foreseeable historic future. Obama must therefore be dumped.
47% of Democrats want a primary challenge to Obama
Those advocating the ouster of Obama as the Democratic party’s 2012 candidate seemed for a long time like a voice crying in the wilderness. But this is no longer the case. The terrain for various political moves to dispense with Obama’s services has been prepared over the last several months by a series of interviews with the anonymous “Ulsterman,” purportedly a former Obama White House official, at newsflavor.com. Ulsterman reports that the tenant of the White House is close to a mental breakdown, surrounded by intrigue, disengaged and withdrawn from the daily administrative routine, and stimulated only by the adulation of the masses.1 The main points of the Ulsterman allegations are now finding their way into the larger media platforms, notably the Politico on the Monday after the election.2 The Washington Post has published a catalog of Democrats blaming Obama for the defeat.3 The catalogue of Democrats who are now willing to be quoted by name in public rebuking and criticizing Obama is growing rapidly, and includes Congressman DeFazio, Congressman George Miller, defeated Florida gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink, defeated Rhode Island candidate Frank Caprio, and others. Left-liberal writer Robert Scheer has finally figured out that “Obama betrayed us.” More important, about half of the Democratic Party (47%) now want to see Obama challenged in the primary elections of 2011-2012.
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