President Obama to ‘Them’: I tried it your way..

I was disciplined, I was obedient, I followed orders to a ‘T’ and allowed you total control of my agenda. I went out of my way to not argue with you about any of your decisions and tried my best to not give you a hard time. And now I am a dissatisfied employer. You have fu..fu…er, messed up the credibility of my product. Do the words ‘enthusiasm gap’ ring a bell to you? (Pause) What are we going to do about that?

Enter Peter Rouse…

Pete Rouse braces White House for GOP gains
By GLENN THRUSH
Excerpt:
Depending on the outcome, Obama may very well have to build a team that can fight, compromise, or do both. The existing organization, designed for 2009, with its possibilities of big legislation based on big Democratic majorities, may have to be re-stocked with staffers who know how to leverage executive power in the face of a newly emboldened congressional GOP — or can craft creative ways to forge bipartisan consensus.

And
“You don’t get to be as powerful as Pete is without knowing when to cut people loose,” says a former Rouse employee, one of dozens of Democratic operatives — a self-described ‘Cult of Pete’ — who keep in close touch with him.

And
House Democratic aides have long argued that Obama’s reliance on campaign advisers like Axelrod and Gibbs led him to attack the culture of Washington — implying that Democrats were part of the problem —- instead of targeting the GOP.
Read more at:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43306.html
As always,
BB