This is such an incredible "groaner" that I can hardly believe it.
Picture this, Coakley's race is swirling the drain. We all sat at our computers and read diary after diary about how to salvage the Health Care Bill if our worst dream came true. If we weren't writing diaries with ideas, we were logging on multiple times to read diaries with suggestions of what to do to save the bill. Besides busting their butts to work and make calls for Coakley, people here used their heads and plotted.
Well, the White House did not have a plan....yes, you read that right, they were caught with their "pants on the ground" because ....well, just read below the fold.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...
The White House had no Massachusetts health care contingency plan, not discussing the possibility a Democratic loss would dramatically imperil their legislative efforts, a top adviser said today.
President Obama's senior advisor David Axelrod said there "wasn't much discussion" about an alternative path to passing health care with just 59 Democrats in the Senate because there was "widespread assumption was that that seat was safe."
"The truth is the flares went up about 10 days before that election," Axelrod said during a briefing today with reporters and opinion-makers.
Axelrod said he was happy to take whatever blame people want to affix to the Whtie House. He said the administration has been open about the need for "more robust intelligence gathering in the future" and that's one reason former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe is stepping up his role in the leadup to the 2010 midterm election.
Next step: If we see ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN we must hand carry the diaries to the White House.
I'll forgive them this time, but they best not EVER be this inept again.
I will give Axelrod a smidgen of credit for admitting it. (I wouldn't, it would be far too embarrassing!)
Someone tell me that we can trust these people.