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"Shutdown Deliberately Orchestrated by White House"

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WASHINGTON — “The shutdown was deliberately orchestrated by the White House,” according to the former foreign editor of Newsweek and editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine.

Why would the White House intentionally cause such pain and havoc across the country?

More on Valerie “Night Stalker” Jarrett here

It is a ploy to win votes, concluded author Ed Klein.

He told the New York Post that President Obama’s closest adviser, Valerie Jarrett, developed a strategy to force a showdown with Republicans over Obamcare.

Jarrett recommended shutting down government because, Klein said, she believed voters would pin the blame on Republicans.

And that would give Democrats the opportunity to win control of the House of Representatives in the 2014 midterm elections.

Klein wrote a critical biography about Obama last year called “The Amateur.” He said he interviewed more than a half dozen White House and former presidential advisers about the shutdown plan.

Think you know the real Barack Obama? You don’t – not until you’ve read “The Amateur.”

He called Jarret the “architect” of the strategy of refusing to negotiate with Republicans over Obamacare.

“She convinced the president that a government shutdown and default offered a great opportunity to demonize the Republicans and help the Democrats win back a majority in the House of Representatives in 2014,” he explained.

“Valerie also came with the idea of using the words ‘hostage,’ and ‘ransom’ and ‘terrorists’ against the Republicans,” Klein maintained.

He said Jarrett’s advice to Obama was, “[D]o not cooperate one iota on Obamacare. Don’t give an inch. Let the Republicans stew in their own juice.”

Klein added, “Republicans walked into a trap set up by Valerie Jarrett and President Obama.”

Smoking gun?

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, believes there was evidence in plain view that the administration planned the shutdown in advance.

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    • irishmist55

      there is no left side or right side, they were all together performing this, just follow revelations to know this and how the performance will play out, the ending not so good for non-believers…..

      • TwelveStrand85

        dude leave religion out of this…

      • grimwriggler

        The Whitehouse is Revlation 3: The synagogue of Satan :evil:

    • Alan8

      This is unbelievable, and could be called right-wing propaganda.

      The Republicans have been planning the shutdown since Obama’s reelection. They’ve made no secret of it. When it happened, THEY were giddy and proud of it! I’ve seen the videos!

      Stopping Obamacare has been the Republicans’ top priority from day 1; They’ve said it themselves! One of them filibustered for 21 hours against it!

      Democrats HAVE compromised repeatedly: Single payer was taken off the table. Then the public option was taken off the table. Us progressives were (and still are) furious about this. The compromising was taken over the top by Democrats agreeing to the sequester, which gave the Republicans the spending cuts they wanted.

      Saying the Democrats wouldn’t compromise and were behind the shutdown is revisionist history. It’s unbelievable to anyone who reads the news and watches TV.

      • SaverNation

        Alan8, you obviously believe everything handed to you. The progressive movement I what is turning this Nation into a socialist country. Let us know how painful the microchip implant procedure was, then it will be to late. When the Government runs health care they own YOU.

        • Alan8

          Your ignorant and illiterate response is typical of a brainwashed right-wing dupe.

          “…you obviously believe everything handed to you.”

          The Republicans themselves have stated their intentions to shut down the government. I believe the numerous videos I’ve seen of Republicans stating just that. The Democrats’ numerous compromises are a matter of public record, but maybe they weren’t reported on Fox “News”.

          “The progressive movement I what is turning this Nation into a socialist country.”

          First, the capitalists have an iron grip on this country through their control of the two corporate-funded parties. Second, in the countries with some degree of Socialism (i.e. most of Europe), they DON’T have 45,000 people DYING each year from lack of medical insurance.

          They DO have free medical care and free college education. They don’t have homeless people. I know Rush Limbaugh has convinced you Socialism is a bad word. He, and the other rich people, don’t like Socialism because it would raise their taxes! He’s convincing YOU to go without things to keep HIS taxes low!

          “Let us know how painful the microchip implant procedure was, then it will be to late.”

          Ironic you think this, when implanting all Americans with microchips was considered BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION! Your brainwashing has given you the idea this is associated with Socialism. Reality check: None of the real Socialist countries in Europe do this, or have even considered doing this. You have to look to the American right wing for these totalitarian ideas.

          “When the Government runs health care they own YOU.”

          Another aspect of your Fox-induced brainwashing: You think Obamacare is the government “running” health care, when in reality they’re coordinating PRIVATE insurance companies’ offerings on a single marketplace.

          Actually I think a single-payer system would be far superior, without a for-profit corporation skimming their profits off the top. I got very sick once in Germany and was treated by their Socialist medical system. It was fast (very fast!), efficient (appropriate tests done immediately), and effective. I was out in an hour for what would have taken all night in an American hospital.

          And they didn’t charge me a cent.

          The rich people who run the right-wing disinformation network (Fox, Limbaugh, etc.) don’t want you to have guaranteed health care to keep THEIR taxes low! They’re not on your side.

      • Tom Dennen, the paranoid historian

        The whole point, mr alanb8, is that “anyone who reads the news and watches TV’ is reading and watching revisionist history in the making and your logic is fatally and fundamentally flawed because it argues within the so-called ‘two-party paradigm” which does not really exist except as a phony belief system imposed on us by our ‘benevolent dictators…
        What exists is a debt-based system of economic slavery to legal loan sharks who are charging you to wage a permanent war against the Third World, aka the Third World war while literally stealing your wealth through the forced imposition of unwanted debt…
        At the time of Tiberius and a thousand years later, in King Edward the First’s England, when the money lenders foreclosed on the properties of the rich, taxes were not paid and…
        “… a powerful host of accusers fell with sudden fury on that class which systematically increased its wealth by usury in defiance of a law passed by Caesar… defining the terms of lending money and of holding estates in Italy, a law long obsolete because the public good is sacrificed to private interest” – Publius Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals of Rome AD 27 about the time when Jesus was reputed to have thrown the money lenders out of the Temple, when in fact Tiberius, angered at the erosion of his tax base, threw them all out of the Empire…
        Today a $500 000 home is paid off over 20 years, the first ten years “paying off the interest”, which is about $500 000!
        After ten years, the capital debt remains, and that is paid over the next ten years, returning a 100% profit to the mortgage lender.
        If at any time you default on the mortgage your home is forfeit.
        Win-win for the lender.
        What gets me is the arrogance of these bastards – today you actually PAY them for the privilege of lending them your money. pay them for counting it, pay them for spending it, pay them for ‘managing it’ for you.
        But, of course, “Bank charges” are not as high here as in other countries, are they?

      • YellowRoseTx51

        And I’m still betting you are one of the lib’tards still so illiterate that they haven’t read that damn bill yet.

        I am sick of the propaganda and the illiterates that still believe that B.O. is this ‘man of the people’ who is ‘just trying to do his job’. And not one of them ever looks at these Exec orders or bills passed.

        It isn’t a ‘two party’ it is all a ‘one party’ rule of dictatorship. They in-fight over their own powers, that’s all. The Rep’s are the freemason; the Dem’s are the illuminati.

        The only people that could come close to being called ‘unaware’ of this influence in the WH…are the janitors!!

        • photoman5151

          Nobody ever read the patriot act or the prescription drug bill passed at 3:00 am by bush and his capitalist cronies

        • GK

          …LOL.

      • CrowPie

        Alan8 is absolutely Right! I call “Ditto!”

        You right wingers are so blinded by fear and hatred you cant see the forrest for the trees.

        • CrowPie

          Yellow Rose……just when exactly did you start reading the executive Orders that Presidents sign? Obviously not “before” Obama took office……..Like I did years ago……..Or you would already know that presidents have been signing themselves these kinds of special rights for many years…..decades even….Starting with…..(drum roll please)…….Pres. Carter! That’s right! Peanut man did it first! They are all designed to be used in times of crisis.

          Which of course is the reason I have heard that every president is going to implement martial law and be ……the LAST President……since……Carter. So…..careful who you call a ‘tard.

        • Banderman

          Blah, blah, blah. Fear this.

        • GK

          They never cared about Bush’s executive orders because he’s on “their” side, so obviously he had “their” best interest in mind every single time. Never mind that Obama’s signed FAR less EOs than Bush did… and taken FAR less vacation time… and done a FAR better job leading the US.

      • Agent Provocateur

        You are correct, Alan, this is blatant right wing propaganda or another way to describe this so called article is blatant lies.

        It’s on record that the republicans and baggers said this was a plot. It’s on record that they were delighted with the shut down, cause it now gives Americans a chance to see how cool it is to go without government. It is on record of them saying they plan to do it again.

        How you people can read this crap and believe it is astounding. I feel sorry for you people. I used to be angry but now I just feel pity.

        These people want to take away all the People’s Programs. All of them. They want to cut all regulation to Big Business… can you imagine how Big Insurance and the credit cards and the banks and and and… will eat us all up? They refuse to up minimum wage, they’re getting rid of collective bargaining, they want to dismantle the Dept of Education and you kiss Pell Grant goodbye among other things like public schooling…

        They’re already killing the post office by forcing a law, you read that right, FORCING A LAW, on the post office where they have to pay insurance benefits for employees 75 years into the future, thereby effectively bankrupting that national institution. Why? Because they’re greedy and they want to privatize it… mail won’t be nearly as cheap as it has been when that happens. They want to privatize our water… Rand Paul has said that it is not a right to have access to water. He agrees with Nestles that said:

        “Access to water is not your right. Believing you have a right to water – is an extreme belief. Water is a raw material and a “foodstuff” that should be privatized and commercialized.”

        What the hell, you think if the republicans and baggers gain control that all their repealings and defundings and dismantlings are only for the democrats and not their supporters? You think they’re gonna build you people new bridges and make us use the collapsed ones? You all really need to rethink your positions… at the very least do some research.

        Go to the Pulitzer Prize winning Politifact and search Ted Cruz and read all the lies he’s been telling you people. Almost everything he has said is a lie. Some even pants on fire lies. And you people believe it. That’s sad.

        • Ghost

          It’s all a part of their ObamaScare tactics…

    • CC

      Frankly I could care less which side caused it, the blame falls on everybody involved in the decision making. From Obama down. There will be no republican or democrat winner at the next election, let us find some awesome independents, also this is a shameless promotion for this guys book. I thought this would be a real news site???

      • Ghost

        The lion’s share of this economic depression is the fault of Phil Gramm of Texas when he had the bully pulpit of Congress under the Newt..

      • GK

        LOL. Before Its News has never been a real news site.

    • mfritz0

      You mean to say these people get paid to act like this?

    • Anonymous

      There is no left / right or Democrats or Republicans… Obama is a puppet used as a distraction.
      Humanity is going to be exterminated.. as per NASA (see stopthecrime.net) their document will lay it out for you.

      Also, David Icke has an excellent ‘detailed’ session about THE TRUTH..

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzytGJh9cBY

      If you still don’t get it.. give up and stay a DEBT SLAVE and explain to your kids what you didn’t do to prevent it.

      If PEOPLE don’t wake up soon and understand what’s REALLY going on…they will be left behind..

      These things have been planned for ‘decades’ while we all slept.

      We are just now ‘beginning’ to understand the game. (servantking.info)

      This is WORLDWIDE.. and hundreds of thousands are beginning to understand how we are running out of time.

      If the USA loses their weapons.. it will be another Nazi Germany.. NO QUESTION about it. They are ALMOST THERE.

      Peace..

      • YellowRoseTx51

        good vid.
        Very funny interview – the hanity interview with ‘King(r) & Smith(d)’. If you can see the images blurring.

        “King” is a rep, which is ruled by the ‘ROYAL’ of the C.A.; which makes him Freemason, owned by Queen Elizabeth, queen of the Moloch Lilith.

        “Smith” is an El, which is ruled by the ‘PAPAL’ of the C.A.; which makes him Illuminati, owned by the Vatican, (‘Smith’ is a term for ‘cording’ they used)Mad King George, Enlil/’Ba-el, King of Hell’

        Even the papal defines ‘redemption’ as ‘RESCUE’ from ‘Alien Powers’.

    • Awabnavi

      Obama may have planned but the Repubs were too dense to see it. Such dumb people should not be elected as leaders of a country. Serves them right if they are kicked out of office.

    • Minnie-C

      The fact is that both parties are to blame and the idiots supporting them who all are nothing more than a majority of elitists who look down on everyone outside of DC. These people are robbing good folk blind, offering bread crumbs and enslaving us with their programs and unfair laws. There is no left or right anymore, it is all theater, a ploy to distract and avoid acting on the real solutions to the nation’s problems which results in repeating more of what got us to the problem which is an ever increasing debt. The saddest of all is that “we the people” keep voting the same people into office hoping for a mild improvement. What is it they say about doing the same thing over hoping for a different outcome? Insanity, yes that’s exactly what it is: INSANITY. :sad:

    • squeak

      I have said this many times that the White house, Socialist Democrats caused & wanted a Shutdown so the Republicans can get blamed I called it the ” Obama Shutdown ” … not too hard to believe & seen for yourselves by all the places, the list too long to mention, that Obama closed down… so who was to blame ? The Obama Administration, no one else !

    • liberty49

      Of course Jarrett had a hand in the shutdown. Obama doesn’t do anything without consulting her. Don’t you feel really safe and secure knowing that this Iranian woman is calling ALL the shots for our government? She has consistently under estimated the American people. Those who have NOT drunk the koolaid are well aware of this President’s deceit and were not fooled. EVERYTHING Ted Cruz and Mike Lee warned us about Obamacare is true and happening now! There is STILL time to defund Obamacare and save this nation’s premium healthcare!

    • ZITZ

      Bull pucky

    • Wonkadelica

      If you can’t belive Right Wing media, who can you believe?

      Bachmann was also quoted by the Washington Post as having said over the weekend of the looming shutdown: “We’re very excited. It’s exactly what we wanted, and we got it.”
      http://www.examiner.com/article/michele-bachmann-republicans-are-the-happiest-i-ve-seen-after-shutdown

      “The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.”
      — Karl Kraus
      :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz:

    • squeak

      The Shutdown was orchestrated by Obama, Reid as was the Obama Care & it’s glitches !

      • GK

        Congrats, you’re an uninformed Republican parrot.

    • Dooley

      Iranian Muslim slum lord criminal.

    • One on

      Pass this one around.Proof positive.

      Subject: US Logistics With The Speed Of Light……..think about it!
      .Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:27:38 -0400

      Did anyone wonder how the US Government got all those signs printed and distributed far and wide, including to all the national parks and cemeteries in the US and overseas only eight to ten hours after the government shut down? Take a look at this from someone who wanted to remain anonymous.

      I have worked in the government on and off for 40 years. During that time I became quite familiar with requisitions, bidding, awarding contracts etc.

      It is a time consuming process with bean-counters and pencil-necked bureaucrats every step of the way. The simplest request takes months not days or hours.

      In less than 8 hours of the shutdown, miraculously, professionally printed 3 X 4 foot signs appeared all over the country in the tens of thousands saying-”this [park, facility, etc. with custom logos] closed due to government shutdown. There has not been a government shutdown in 17 years.

      These signs were designed, specifications were determined, signs were then requisitioned, bids were posted and vetted, government contracts were awarded. The materials were then ordered and the signs manufactured, then distributed by U.S. Mails or freight companies.

      This shutdown was orchestrated and planned well in advance at least 6-8 months ago. Millions of tax dollars were appropriated and spent in this process. There is a paper trail a mile long leading directly to the White House.

      • Questions

        A bit of a difference between planning for the shutdown and orchestrating it, the Tea party Republicans were threatening to shut down the government over Obamacare for a long time.

    • Questions

      What a farce, in a democratic government you don’t legislate by intimidation, blackmail, and threats, if anyone wants to change a law you get the right number of people elected and get enough votes to change it, you don’t do it via the backdoor through budgeting via a minority. Any stance but no negotiation would have been disastrous for our kind of government, you might have to negotiate the level of funding but you don’t override a passed law completly by defunding.

    • GK

      Alan8 said it as well as I could. Republicans (specifically, Tea Party republicans) have been orchestrating a shutdown since the last election. It’s well-documented. Revisionist history has no place in reality.

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