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		<title>Obama’s Green Robber Barons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Obama&#8217;s Green Robber Barons by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Had enough of fat cat Barack Obama, his jet-setting wife and his multi-millionaire Chicago consigliere/real-estate mogul Valerie Jarrett attacking the &#8220;rich&#8221;? Well, brace yourselves. You&#8217;ll be hearing much more from the White House about the &#8220;wealthy few&#8221; who aren&#8217;t paying their &#8220;fair share&#8221; as Obama&#8217;s re-election campaign doubles down on class-war demagoguery. As usual, there&#8217;s always a set of immunity charms for the privileged friends and family of the ruling class. When it comes to all the Green Robber Barons who&#8217;ve reaped an obscenely unfair share of billions of tax dollars from the Obama administration, the envy trumpeteers will be quieter than a nest of mute church mice. Obama&#8217;s State of the Union address defiantly pitched a new round of clean energy spending orgies to help the &#8220;middle class.&#8221; But how have the serial bankruptcies and near-bankruptcies of several federally subsidized solar companies &#8212; all under Obama&#8217;s watch &#8212; helped anyone but an upper-crust elite of eco-crats and their lobbyists and consultants? Bankrupt Solyndra, billionaire George Kaiser. In the wake of the half-billion-dollar Solyndra stimulus bust, company officials revealed plans to hand out hefty bonuses totaling $500,000. Months before the politically connected solar energy manufacturer went belly up, it was doling out bonus payments of between $40,000 and $60,000 to several executives. Last week, a local CBS News crew caught employees at the Silicon Valley headquarters trashing solar panel glass tubes worth an estimated $10 million. The now-abandoned Taj Mahal complex cost ordinary Americans more than $733 million. But billionaire Democratic donor and frequent White House guest George Kaiser, whose nonprofit foundation was Solyndra&#8217;s biggest investor, is still sitting pretty. He and the other private investors of Solyndra will recoup their losses ahead of taxpayers. And while they blast their GOP opponents, double-standard Democrats will remain AWOL on the glaring tax-avoidance strategies of the wealthy Kaiser Family Foundation. Bankrupt Beacon Power, fat Democratic coffers. This green energy storage plant filed for bankruptcy last fall after a $43 million injection of Obama Department of Energy loan guarantees. Federal election record filings show that CEO William Capp contributed to the 2008 Obama campaign, as well as several left-wing New England Democratic candidates. Beacon Power lobbyist Steve Wolfe was a former aide to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. Beacon sought bankruptcy shelter two days after the White House responded to fiscal watchdogs&#8217; demands for a review of the DOE&#8217;s shoddy loan monitoring programs. Bankrupt SpectraWatt, red-faced Goldman Sachs. A solar cell company based in New York, SpectraWatt went belly up last August despite a half-million-dollar federal stimulus boost and lucrative backing from politically connected Goldman Sachs &#8212; whose ties reach deep into the Obama Treasury Department, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, White House National Economic Council and 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. itself. The eco-failure was dumped in a fire sale for less than $5 million. Teetering Nevada Geothermal, cheerleading Harry Reid. Despite $150 million in federal DOE and Treasury Department subsidies &#8212; not to mention personal lobbying by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid &#8212; this alternative energy project is on the brink of failure. A Deloitte and Touche audit grimly concludes that the company &#8220;has incurred net losses over the past several years, has an accumulated deficit of $44.0 million and an anticipated inability to retire its long-term liabilities.&#8221; According to CBS News, the company&#8217;s latest SEC filings warn of multiple defaults. My scouring of White House visitor logs shows nine visits from another Green Robber Baron, Illinois-based Exelon&#8217;s CEO John Rowe, who met with the president and former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel multiple times. As Forbes magazine reported: The clean energy company &#8220;has very deep ties to the Obama Administration. Frank M. Clark, who runs ComEd, helped advise Obama before he ran for president and is one of Obama&#8217;s largest fundraisers. Obama&#8217;s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, worked as a consultant to Exelon. Obama&#8217;s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, helped create Exelon&#8221; &#8212; where he raked in more than $16 million over two years. Remember: &#8220;Fairness&#8221; is in the eye of the wealth redistributors. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Green Robber Barons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Obama&#8217;s Green Robber Barons by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Had enough of fat cat Barack Obama, his jet-setting wife and his multi-millionaire Chicago consigliere/real-estate mogul Valerie Jarrett attacking the &#8220;rich&#8221;? Well, brace yourselves. You&#8217;ll be hearing much more from the White House about the &#8220;wealthy few&#8221; who aren&#8217;t paying their &#8220;fair share&#8221; as Obama&#8217;s re-election campaign doubles down on class-war demagoguery. As usual, there&#8217;s always a set of immunity charms for the privileged friends and family of the ruling class. When it comes to all the Green Robber Barons who&#8217;ve reaped an obscenely unfair share of billions of tax dollars from the Obama administration, the envy trumpeteers will be quieter than a nest of mute church mice. Obama&#8217;s State of the Union address defiantly pitched a new round of clean energy spending orgies to help the &#8220;middle class.&#8221; But how have the serial bankruptcies and near-bankruptcies of several federally subsidized solar companies &#8212; all under Obama&#8217;s watch &#8212; helped anyone but an upper-crust elite of eco-crats and their lobbyists and consultants? Bankrupt Solyndra, billionaire George Kaiser. In the wake of the half-billion-dollar Solyndra stimulus bust, company officials revealed plans to hand out hefty bonuses totaling $500,000. Months before the politically connected solar energy manufacturer went belly up, it was doling out bonus payments of between $40,000 and $60,000 to several executives. Last week, a local CBS News crew caught employees at the Silicon Valley headquarters trashing solar panel glass tubes worth an estimated $10 million. The now-abandoned Taj Mahal complex cost ordinary Americans more than $733 million. But billionaire Democratic donor and frequent White House guest George Kaiser, whose nonprofit foundation was Solyndra&#8217;s biggest investor, is still sitting pretty. He and the other private investors of Solyndra will recoup their losses ahead of taxpayers. And while they blast their GOP opponents, double-standard Democrats will remain AWOL on the glaring tax-avoidance strategies of the wealthy Kaiser Family Foundation. Bankrupt Beacon Power, fat Democratic coffers. This green energy storage plant filed for bankruptcy last fall after a $43 million injection of Obama Department of Energy loan guarantees. Federal election record filings show that CEO William Capp contributed to the 2008 Obama campaign, as well as several left-wing New England Democratic candidates. Beacon Power lobbyist Steve Wolfe was a former aide to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. Beacon sought bankruptcy shelter two days after the White House responded to fiscal watchdogs&#8217; demands for a review of the DOE&#8217;s shoddy loan monitoring programs. Bankrupt SpectraWatt, red-faced Goldman Sachs. A solar cell company based in New York, SpectraWatt went belly up last August despite a half-million-dollar federal stimulus boost and lucrative backing from politically connected Goldman Sachs &#8212; whose ties reach deep into the Obama Treasury Department, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, White House National Economic Council and 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. itself. The eco-failure was dumped in a fire sale for less than $5 million. Teetering Nevada Geothermal, cheerleading Harry Reid. Despite $150 million in federal DOE and Treasury Department subsidies &#8212; not to mention personal lobbying by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid &#8212; this alternative energy project is on the brink of failure. A Deloitte and Touche audit grimly concludes that the company &#8220;has incurred net losses over the past several years, has an accumulated deficit of $44.0 million and an anticipated inability to retire its long-term liabilities.&#8221; According to CBS News, the company&#8217;s latest SEC filings warn of multiple defaults. My scouring of White House visitor logs shows nine visits from another Green Robber Baron, Illinois-based Exelon&#8217;s CEO John Rowe, who met with the president and former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel multiple times. As Forbes magazine reported: The clean energy company &#8220;has very deep ties to the Obama Administration. Frank M. Clark, who runs ComEd, helped advise Obama before he ran for president and is one of Obama&#8217;s largest fundraisers. Obama&#8217;s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, worked as a consultant to Exelon. Obama&#8217;s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, helped create Exelon&#8221; &#8212; where he raked in more than $16 million over two years. Remember: &#8220;Fairness&#8221; is in the eye of the wealth redistributors. ]]></description>
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		<title>After she made up complaints from first lady Michelle Obama about his work 
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Caller - Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs tells the author of a new book on President Obama’s family that he &#8220;stopped taking” presidential aide Valerie Jarrett “at all seriously as an adviser to the president” after she made up complaints from first lady Michelle Obama about his work.]]></description>
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		<title>Michelle’s “Women for Obama” versus Obama’s women</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ggallin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ So this just arrived in my e-mail box tonight from the other Michelle: Michelle &#8211; As I have traveled across the country, I have had the privilege of meeting incredible women from all walks of life. From young women paying their own way through college, to moms working the extra shift to keep food on the table, to women struggling to make ends meet during retirement. We talk about their bills, their children &#8212; how they&#8217;re constantly striving to strike that balance between work and family. And no matter what kind of challenges they&#8217;re facing, they don&#8217;t complain. They just work harder. This is what we do as women. We persevere. Because no matter our ages, backgrounds, or stations in life, we are determined to leave a better world for our children and give them opportunities we never even dreamed of. Women have always been the heart of the Obama organization. We make up nearly half of the American workforce and are the majority of students in America&#8217;s colleges and universities. We&#8217;re the primary caregivers for our children and seniors. We&#8217;re the heads of households and workplaces across the country. And right now, it&#8217;s time for us all to dig deep, step up, and keep building this campaign together: person by person, discussion by discussion. Today, we are officially launching Women for Obama &#8212; and I am incredibly honored to be serving as its chair. This is a special group dedicated to growing this campaign from the ground up. Because we know better than anyone that movements for real and lasting change have got to start at the grassroots &#8212; and they&#8217;re sustained by the relationships we develop with one another. Together, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to do &#8212; build relationships with supporters, new and old, and grow this campaign &#8212; one woman at a time. I wanted to ask you myself if you&#8217;ll sign on to join us. The stories of the incredible women I meet serve as a constant reminder of why we&#8217;re all here: because American families all around the country are facing very real problems. They&#8217;re balancing mortgage payments and utilities bills with full-time jobs and raising children. They&#8217;re struggling to make ends meet while still trying to put money aside to send their kids to college one day. Barack understands these issues because he&#8217;s lived them. He was raised by a single mother who struggled to put herself through school and pay the bills. When she needed help, Barack&#8217;s grandmother stepped in, waking up every morning before dawn to take a bus to her job at a bank. And even though she worked hard and was good at what she did, she ultimately hit a glass ceiling and was passed over for promotions time and again because she was a woman. So Barack knows what it means when a family struggles. He knows what it means when someone doesn&#8217;t have a chance to fulfill their potential. And today, as a father, he knows what it means to want your daughters to grow up with no limits on their dreams. That&#8217;s why, since taking office, he&#8217;s worked tirelessly to make sure every child and every family gets a fair shake. The historic health reform he passed is making sure every American family gets the quality and affordable care they need to stay healthy. The crucial investments he&#8217;s made in our students and workers &#8212; raising the standards in our public schools and building out job-training programs at community colleges &#8212; are investments in our country&#8217;s economic future. And the very first bill he signed into law &#8212; the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act &#8212; will help make it easier for women to get equal pay for equal work, because he knows that women&#8217;s success in this economy is the key to families&#8217; success in this economy. But we have so much more to do. And, as women and supporters of this campaign, we need to keep showing up &#8212; and we need to keep fighting the good fight. So I&#8217;m asking you to join me, and women all across the country who support this movement. I&#8217;m asking you to say you&#8217;re ready to work. Join Women for Obama, and help us grow this organization: http://my.barackobama.com/Women-for-Obama Thank you for being a part of this, Michelle Guess Mrs. Obama missed out on the brouhaha raised by Obama&#8217;s women in the White House who don&#8217;t believe they got a &#8220;fair shake.&#8221; Flashback : Now, some of the actual women who served in the White House are bemoaning the &#8220;hostile workplace&#8221; at 1600 Pennsylvania: Friction about the roles of women in the Obama White House grew so intense during the first two years of the president’s tenure that he was forced to take steps to reassure senior women on his staff that he valued their presence and their input. At a dinner in November 2009, several senior female aides complained directly to the president that men enjoyed greater access to him and often muscled them out of key policy discussions. Those tensions prompted Obama, urged on by senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, to elevate more women into senior White House positions, recognize them more during staff meetings and increase the female presence in the upper ranks of the reelection campaign. “There were some issues early on with women feeling as though they hadn’t figured out what their role was going to be on the senior team at the White House,” Jarrett said in an interview Monday. “Most of the women hadn’t worked on the campaign, and so they didn’t have a personal relationship with the president.” &#8230;One of the most striking quotes in the book came from former White House communications director Anita Dunn , who was quoted as saying that, “this place would be in court for a hostile workplace. . . . Because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.” Dunn says she was quoted out of context and told The Post on Friday that she told Suskind “point blank” that the White House was not a hostile work environment. Except that, er, she did say that: On Monday, Suskind allowed a Post reporter to review a recorded excerpt of the original interview, which took place over the telephone in April. In that conversation, Dunn is heard telling Suskind about a conversation she had with Jarrett. “I remember once I told Valerie that, I said if it weren’t for the president, this place would be in court for a hostile workplace,” Dunn is heard telling Suskind. “Because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.” Oops. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Administration Warned About Potential Embarrassment of Solyndra Visit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ **Written by Doug Powers Everybody saw it coming &#8212; except select individuals in the White House &#8212; but they can&#8217;t say they weren&#8217;t warned : A Silicon Valley investor and senior administration officials warned the White House to reconsider having President Obama visit a solar start-up company because of its mounting financial problems, saying he might be embarrassed later. “A number of us are concerned that the president is visiting Solyndra,” California investor and Obama fundraiser Steve Westly wrote to Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett in May 2010. “Many of us believe the company’s cost structure will make it difficult for them to survive long term. &#8230; I just want to help protect the president from anything that could result in negative or unfair press.” “If it’s too late to change/postpone the meeting, the president should be careful about unrealistic/optimistic forecasts that could haunt him in the next 18 months if Solyndra hits the wall, files for bankruptcy, etc.” The warnings against being unrealistic or overly optimistic weren&#8217;t exactly heeded during Obama&#8217;s May 2010 speech at Solyndra : Since the project broke ground last fall, more than 3,000 construction workers have been employed building this plant. Across the country, workers &#8212; (applause) &#8212; across the country, workers in 22 states are manufacturing the supplies for this project. Workers in a dozen states are building the advanced manufacturing equipment that will power this new facility. When it’s completed in a few months, Solyndra expects to hire a thousand workers to manufacture solar panels and sell them across America and around the world. (Applause.) And this in turn will generate business for companies throughout our country who will create jobs supplying this factory with parts and materials. So there’s a ripple effect. It’s not just localized to this area. Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants. It’s also worth noting, to achieve this doubling of our share of solar capacity, we actually need to make four times as many solar panels, because other countries are adding capacity, too. Nobody in this race is standing still. Well, what else could he have said? &#8220;Within 18 months it&#8217;s very likely that where you&#8217;re standing now will be a Bed, Bath &#038; Beyond &#8212; dibs on the whistling robots ”? **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Won&#8217;t Release College Transcripts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ggallin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lynn Sweet has the report, " Valerie Jarrett shutting down Trump: No college transcript release " (via Memeorandum and Weasel Zippers ). And at Sweetness &#038; Light, from 2008, " Where Are Your Transcripts, Mr. Obama? " (quoting Ross Goldberg at the New York Sun ): Senator Obama’s life story, from his humble roots, to his rise to Harvard Law School, to his passion as a community organizer in Chicago, has been at the center of his presidential campaign. But one chapter of the tale remains a blank — his education at Columbia College, a place he rarely speaks about and where few people seem to remember him. Contributing to the mystery is the fact that nobody knows just how well Mr. Obama, unlike Senator McCain and most other major candidates for the past two elections, performed as a student. The Obama campaign has refused to release his college transcript, despite an academic career that led him to Harvard Law School and, later, to a lecturing position at the University of Chicago. The shroud surrounding his experience at Columbia contrasts with that of other major party nominees since 2000, all whom have eventually released information about their college performance or seen it leaked to the public. For better or worse, voters have taken an interest in candidates’ grades since 1999, when the New Yorker published President Bush’s transcript at Yale and disclosed that he was a C student. Mr. Bush had never portrayed himself as a brain, but many were surprised to learn the next year that his opponent, Vice President Gore, did not do much better at Harvard despite his intellectual image. When Senator Kerry’s transcript surfaced, reporters found that he actually had a slightly lower average at Yale than Mr. Bush did… The Obama campaign declined to comment for this article and did not offer an explanation for why his transcript has not been released . Hmm ... Maybe Obama's community organizing with communists while at Columbia is cited as college service on his transcripts. That on top of mediocre grades would really puncture the facade of supreme intelligence, moderation and pragmatism. More on Obama's mediocrity from Allen Caruba, " The Smartest Man in the Room? ": At the time of the nation’s birth, America was blessed with some of the finest minds available for the task. They included, in addition to Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Hamilton, and a certifiable genius, Benjamin Franklin. When the original Articles of Confederation didn’t work, they and others got together in Philadelphia, shut the doors, and hammered out the Constitution. When one looks at the array of men and women in high public office today, it is hard not to conclude that most are imbeciles. The mere thought that the nation’s security has been entrusted to Janet Napolitano or its health to Kathleen Sebelius is enough to keep one up at night, but what is most obvious is that Barack Obama is just not smart. Not street smart. Not academically smart. Not people smart. But smart enough to have gotten elected, the politician’s idea of smart. We are left to hope the nation can survive him long enough to repair the damage he will leave in his wake . Ouch. ]]></description>
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		<title>An Officer and a Gentleman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kohler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN contributor and former Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene tells the story of a gracious act by Four-star Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli toward White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, after President Obama's longtime friend mistook the General for a waiter at a dinner and asked him to bring her a glass of wine: Rather than take offense, or try to make Jarrett feel small for her blunder, the general, in good humor, went and poured her a glass of wine. It was evident that he wanted to defuse the awkward moment, and to let Jarrett know that she should not feel embarrassed. As Chiarelli wrote in an e-mail to CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr: "It was an honest mistake that ANYONE could have made. She was sitting, I was standing and walking behind her and all she saw were the two stripes on my pants which were almost identical to the waiters' pants -- REALLY. She apologized and will come to the house for dinner if a date can be worked out in March." Greene cites a few other good examples of consideration and grace. However, he did not mention for contrast any examples of rudeness and disrespect, so let me offer one.]]></description>
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		<title>A Chicago Obama Campaign Headquarters! Unprecedented! Daring! Yawn.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kohler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Of course. "Unprecedented!" Never in modern history has a U.S. president attempted to win reelection with a campaign operation based beyond the Potomac. ]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago shuffle in the East Wing: Meet Mrs. O’s high-powered, Soros-friendly bundler-turned-chief of staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kohler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Goodbye, Susan Sher. Hello, Tina Tchen. Readers of Culture of Corruption are already familiar with the name &#8220;Susan Sher.&#8221; Sher is Michelle Obama&#8217;s old boss at the University of Chicago Medical Center (where they worked together on the infamous patient-dumping scheme no one wants to talk about) and a former Mayor Richard Daley attorney. She took over as chief of staff for the First Lady in June 2009 &#8212; after Mrs. Obama&#8217;s first, short-lived chief of staff Jackie Norris was installed at Americorps to protect the Obamas&#8217; cronies. Earlier today, the White House announced that Sher was stepping down and heading back to the Windy City. Who&#8217;s filling her place? Another left-wing Chicago crony , of course. Call it a shakeup or call it a natural turnover halfway through the term, but the White House is preparing for significant change throughout its top ranks. Much of the movement, though, will involve new posts for longtime aides to President Barack Obama. Among the many moves afoot, Tina Tchen , who is responsible for working with outside groups, is preparing to move to the East Wing to serve as First Lady Michelle Obama’s chief of staff, according to two Democrats close to the White House. It’s part of a shuffle that gives the White House a chance to consider how it wants to organize itself for the coming two years, when it will face a more hostile, more Republican Congress. Interim Chief of Staff Pete Rouse is studying how to reorganize the place so it is ready for the next stage. Readers of this blog are already familiar with Tina Tchen, too. She&#8217;s a close pal of Obama consigliere Valerie Jarrett and a longtime bagwoman for Illinois Democrats. Tchen headed up the &#8220;Office of Public Engagement,&#8221; a murky outfit overseen by Jarrett that, among other things, had its hands in the Obama&#8217;s failed Chicago Crony-lympics bid and was in the middle of Obama administration efforts to recruit artists to advance their political agenda. I pointed out in November 2009 that Tchen, a high-powered campaign finance bundler for Team Obama who personally raised more than $200,000 while a lawyer at Skadden Arps, is listed in White House visitor logs as having met there with none other than&#8230; George Soros. Flashback: * GEORGE SOROS . And let there be no doubt that other far Left kingpins have easy access to this White House. Billionaire George Soros dropped in on David Lipton, Obama&#8217;s special assistant for international economic affairs and a longtime Treasury bureaucrat in past Democrat administrations whose contact with Soros goes back to at least 1998. Soros visited Lipton on February 25, just a few days after he made international headlines for statements at Columbia University about the global financial collapse, and again on March 25, the day he was quoted around the world gloating about &#8220;having a very good crisis.&#8221; Soros also met with National Economic Council director Larry Summers and Valerie Jarrett&#8217;s gal Tina Tchen. Inquiring minds want to know: Did Petrobras come up? Tchen&#8217;s specialty is serving as a conduit and sounding board for far Left constituencies from Planned Parenthood to Hollyweird to George Soros. They&#8217;re digging in their heels at the East Wing, no doubt with West Wing approval and close coordination. I said before the midterms that the Obamas had no intention of moving to the center. Need any more proof? ]]></description>
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		<title>CAPITAL CULTURE: Obama aide a constant amid change 
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AP - In a no-drama White House on the brink of big changes, there will remain a constant &#8212; Valerie Jarrett, longtime friend and trusted adviser to President Barack Obama.]]></description>
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