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Valerie Jarrett Must Go
Jared Feldschreiber / American Thinker
DC political insiders believe that if President Barack Obama truly seeks compromise with Republicans, he should begin by ditching White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett. It goes without saying that Jarrett, the president’s longtime trusted confidante, political ally, and family friend, is a divisive figure inside the beltway. Calls for her dismissal have been rampant since the president began his second term — and even before then. It is a demand still ignored by the White House.
“The only chance the Obama administration has to make a mark would be to work close with Congress,” Mark W. Davis, former speechwriter and senior director of The White House Writers Group (and venerable DC insider) tells me. “But this is a president who is insular… [And] surrounded by people who reflect back to him what he wants to hear… For a man with an Ivy League education, he seems remarkably ignorant of the ways in which past presidents — Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton — have worked with Congress.” Davis also underscores that President Obama has not received the memo put forth by American voters last November with the GOP seizing control of the Senate, giving them full command of Congress. President Obama believed the elections were a referendum on his policies, even as Republicans gained seven seats in the Senate and maintained a solid majority in the House of Representatives. The schism between Republicans and Democrats has only widened in recent months.
Davis asserts that the first order of business should be to immediately fire Jarrett, “She remains an enabler of the worst tendencies of Barack Obama to go it alone, even to the point of stiff-arming other Democrats. Some Clinton people say the White House doesn’t understand the need to work the center in American politics, and they lack a fundamental appreciation for how the presidency can be effectively used in Washington.”
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