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Schadenfreude

Posted on | November 15, 2010 | 6 Comments

Their misery makes me happy:

After nearly two weeks of introspection, President Obama’s top advisers have concluded that the “shellacking” Democrats took on Election Day was caused in large part by their own failure to live up to expectations set during the 2008 campaign, not merely the typical political cycles and poor messaging they pointed to at first.
While the president has been on a trip to Asia for the past 10 days, all but a few of his top aides stayed behind to figure out what went so wrong and what to do about it. Wearing casual clothes and with the White House to themselves, they determined that the situation they face is serious and will take significant adjustments to reverse. . . .

The only thing that keeps this from being unmitigated joy for me is my knowledge that these “top advisers” moping around the White House are getting paid fat salaries at taxpayer expense.

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Comments

  • http://twitter.com/vermontaigne Dan Collins

    Maybe later I’ll write up an homage to schadenfreude, to the tune of “Edelweiss.”

  • dr kill

    I thought they discussed the issues of the day with a chukkar or two of shirtless beer pong.

  • JeffS

    Note that they waited until Obama (and Michelle) were gone to discuss the possibility that they screwed up. Heh heh heh!

    Ten bucks says that Obama (and Michelle) reject the conclusions of his top advisers.

  • http://getalonghome.com/ GAHCindy

    “The only thing that keeps this from being unmitigated joy for me is my knowledge that these “top advisers” moping around the White House are getting paid fat salaries at taxpayer expense.”

    Not the only thing for me. They are surely plotting some sort of lame-duck revenge on us ungrateful rubes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    Why do I get the feeling that if we weren’t dealing through the GOP, getting inside these amateurs’ decision cycle would be pretty easy?

  • http://ak4mc.us/cms/ McGehee

    Probably because even though we were dealing through the GOP, we still managed to do it.

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