Politico: New York special election loss played down by White House

[Patricia M. McBride]

Obama's Incompetence has no competition!  Obama is in a realm of his own!  Solyndra, UAW, SEIU Guns and Roses, and 900 days without a budger!  Trillions wasted!   And the administration plays down a catastrophe what happened in NY-9; 90 years of democrat rule overturned!  The Jewish VOTE compromised!

The bar of Incompetence is now so low it can now be stepped over by Obama

 

and from team POLITICO: 

The talk around the House Democratic Caucus is that their leadership, which is saying the results represent a quirky election, is making a huge mistake.

Excuse making.

Denial.

Arrogance.

Dismissive.

Tone Deaf.

All shows that this administration has learned nothing about the people it seeks to dominate and rule. The silent majority. The sleeping giant is awakening and the mood is grim.

Mr. Obama has alienated and divided an entire nation. It has to stop. We need someone new for this nation to survive. We are out of time.

By JAKE SHERMAN & GLENN THRUSH | 9/14/11 7:33 PM EDT

President Barack Obama’s political team kept a blast-zone distance from Democrat David Weprin in the days leading to his defeat in New York’s special election — but that didn’t shield the president and the White House from a fresh wave of Democratic panic and finger-pointing.

On Tuesday night, Republican upstart Bob Turner cast his stunning 54 percent to 46 percent victory in the “safe” Democratic seat formerly held by Anthony Weiner as “a referendum” on Obama’s economic and foreign policy failings. And on Wednesday, the vanquished joined the victor in pointing to Obama as the key factor.

“The media [and] my opponent somewhat successfully made it a referendum on Obama,” Weprin told Washington Jewish Week, adding that the president, “has some major issues in New York. … I certainly suffered from the effects of that.”

The level of apoplexy among the Democratic rank and file isn’t quite up to the pitch of January 2010, when sure-bet Democrat Martha Coakley lost to little-known Republican state legislator Scott Brown in Massachusetts, erasing Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. But it seemed to put a damper on any renewed optimism engendered by Obama’s well-received jobs speech last week.

Still, the view from the White House was that if ever there was a race that was prey to local quirk and color, this one was it.

Weprin was a truly feeble candidate rated as “third tier” by national Democrats. He was openly antagonistic to the White House, criticizing Obama for challenging Israel. Most important of all, the district, an ungainly Brooklyn-Queens amalgamation that resembles a disfigured Dachshund, is likely to be eliminated when the state’s electoral map is redrawn to reflect New York state’s likely loss of two congressional seats.

“This was a low priority for us. This wasn’t a race that ever held a lot of interest for us,” said a Democratic operative close to Obama who urged panicked Democrats to chill out. “The minute Anthony Weiner exposed himself, we just assumed the district would be eliminated.”

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