This is the promise of a senior GOP official provided we make the sweeps expected in November 2010 and with the Presidency in 2012. The former is assured, the later it will of course depend on who is running. It’s doubtful that Obama will handedly win reelection in 2012, in fact I see him getting “bumped” for a possible Hillary run – providing she survives the continued screwup at the Secretary of State position.

Dems may well pass Obamacare, but being that it won’t take affect until 2014 or so – although while your taxes go through the roof – it’s likely it will be stripped to shreds and eventually killed by a GOP majority. Definitely by a GOP congress and president and that’s already on the table.

Pollsters and prognosticators haven’t seen this foul of a climate for a political party since 1993 and according to many it’s even worse. Today a local radio show in South Florida was flooded by irate callers calling for the ouster of Democrats even from the local governments over their takeover of healthcare.

“They’ve lost their minds!” “Who in the hell do they think they are?” “Wait until November, we’ll kick them to the curb them”, just a few of the comments I heard. But you have to wonder just what in the hell Dems are thinking by trying to push this through. One can come up with a few possibilities.

1) They actually believe that people want their bill – when they don’t. That’s delusional, but plausible.

2) They know it will get repealed or at least stripped down, but they can say, “See the Republicans are the bad guys!” Won’t work, we’re doing the will of the people and they know it.

3) They figure people will change their minds once they have Obamacare. Again, won’t matter they won’t get anything until 2014 or beyond, by then they won’t know what they missed and will be thanking God – and us – for it.

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Deserved.

“The moral of the story? If you’re going to trash America and the troops, use Smurfs.

The Wrap:

Universal’s “Green Zone” became the latest Iraq War-themed movie to fall down the box office rabbit hole, debuting to just $5 million in the U.S. and Canada Friday, according to studio estimates. …

“Green Zone” could find little traction, getting out to a pace that will give it less than $15 million for its premiere weekend.

That would be even less than the modest pre-release expectations for the $100 million film, which reteams star Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass, who worked on the Universal’s last two “Jason Bourne” franchise installments. The film was put into production during the co-chair term of Marc Shmuger and David Linde.”

You figure that after Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, Rendition, Stop Loss all flopped they would have learned that movies like this are only popular with Al Qaeda.

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Snore!

“WEST PALM BEACH — Venting about the conservative tea party movement and talking — at times heatedly — about the need for civility in public discourse marked the debut meeting of a local “coffee party” group today.

About 40 people showed up for the meeting at a Panera Bread restaurant, where organizer George Papison had booked a small room in expectation of a dozen or fewer.

The meeting was one of hundreds planned for today across the nation by Coffee Party U.S.A., a group that sprang from Facebook rantings against the tea party movement by filmmaker and Obama supporter Annabel Park.

“Frankly, we are petrified by the tea party and what they stand for and what they’re talking about,” said Monte Carmel, a retired business executive from West Palm Beach.

“I’m tired of all the misinformation, the cute little labels the fright-wing has thrown on everything,” said a man named Russ.

“To me, government is the answer. I’m really sort of perplexed,” said a man named Joe who said he had been a teacher for 44 years.

Participants broke into groups and wrote their priorities on white posters, then shared them with the larger gathering. Several called for passage of health care overhaul, which has galvanized tea party opposition. Others called for campaign finance reform and curbing the influence of lobbyists and corporations.

“We have to stop the mantra of no taxes, no taxes, no taxes,” said Marcia Halpern of Palm Beach Gardens.”

Halpern is a local DNC official, as well as a member of the ACLU of Florida, and treasurer of the League of Women Voters of Palm Beach. In fact most of those in attendance were operatives or otherwise heavily involved in Democrat politics in Palm Beach. 40 people isn’t a movement, it’s a beer bash at best. I can get more people over for the Superbowl.

You have to laugh at Halpern’s bemoaning “No taxes”. Property taxes in Palm Beach, Broward and Dade have risen steadily while homeowners get foreclosed on. Get some t-shirts printed Marcia, “More Taxes!”, “Tax Me Till I Puke!”, “I’m Patriotic, Shaft Me Uncle Sam!”.

Should sell a lot.

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You had to know when they sent Chia Biden – who has noted problems with Jews in the first place – to the Middle East he was bound to start something with that big trap of his. He did.

“The January Mullen briefing was unprecedented. No previous CENTCOM commander had ever expressed himself on what is essentially a political issue; which is why the briefers were careful to tell Mullen that their conclusions followed from a December 2009 tour of the region where, on Petraeus’s instructions, they spoke to senior Arab leaders. “Everywhere they went, the message was pretty humbling,” a Pentagon officer familiar with the briefing says. “America was not only viewed as weak, but its military posture in the region was eroding.” But Petraeus wasn’t finished: two days after the Mullen briefing, Petraeus sent a paper to the White House requesting that the West Bank and Gaza (which, with Israel, is a part of the European Command – or EUCOM), be made a part of his area of operations. Petraeus’s reason was straightforward: with U.S. troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military had to be perceived by Arab leaders as engaged in the region’s most troublesome conflict.

The Mullen briefing and Petraeus’s request hit the White House like a bombshell. While Petraeus’s request that CENTCOM be expanded to include the Palestinians was denied (”it was dead on arrival,” a Pentagon officer confirms), the Obama Administration decided it would redouble its efforts – pressing Israel once again on the settlements issue, sending Mitchell on a visit to a number of Arab capitals and dispatching Mullen for a carefully arranged meeting with Chief of the Israeli General Staff, Lt. General Gabi Ashkenazi. While the American press speculated that Mullen’s trip focused on Iran, the JCS Chairman actually carried a blunt, and tough, message on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: that Israel had to see its conflict with the Palestinians “in a larger, regional, context” – as having a direct impact on America’s status in the region. Certainly, it was thought, Israel would get the message.

Israel didn’t. When Vice President Joe Biden was embarrassed by an Israeli announcement that the Netanyahu government was building 1600 new homes in East Jerusalem, the administration reacted. But no one was more outraged than Biden who, according to the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, engaged in a private, and angry, exchange with the Israeli Prime Minister. Not surprisingly, what Biden told Netanyahu reflected the importance the administration attached to Petraeus’s Mullen briefing: “This is starting to get dangerous for us,” Biden reportedly told Netanyahu. “What you’re doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and it endangers regional peace.” Yedioth Ahronoth went on to report: “The vice president told his Israeli hosts that since many people in the Muslim world perceived a connection between Israel’s actions and US policy, any decision about construction that undermines Palestinian rights in East Jerusalem could have an impact on the personal safety of American troops fighting against Islamic terrorism.” The message couldn’t be plainer: Israel’s intransigence could cost American lives.”

Israel needs to see nothing. The Obama administration taking the pro-palestinian line that Israeli settlements put American troops in harms way is deplorable. The enemy isn’t Israel, it’s the terrorist of Hamas and other terrorist networks in Palestine.

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Ok, the obligatory “Keith Olbermann’s Dad is Dead” post.

(crickets).

PS: I though KO was descended vis Edward R. Murrow, oh, never mind.

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