Desiree Rogers Stepping Down as Obama’s White House Social Secretary

Does this mean we don’t get a sequel to Party Crashers-gate?

Desiree Rogers is out as  Obama’s White House Social Secretary.  She will be stepping down after presiding over 330 events and one memorable one.  I’ll say she made it the “People’s house.”

Rogers is departing after achieving a major goal of President Obama and First Lady Michelle — opening up the White House to make it the “peoples house.”

Too bad she didn’t take her job more important that night than she did attending the State dinner herself.

How will Tareq and Michaele Salahi ever be able to crash another White House function? What might be comical is that Desiree Rogers thinks her work as social secretary will be remembered as a success. Hardly, she will be remembered for one thing and one thing only. Having allowed individuals to get such close access to an Indian PM, the President and VP at a State Dinner.

Rogers, a friend of the First Couple for years, was one of the first Obama administration appointees.

“When I took on this assignment, we talked about the importance of creating the people’s house. My work was really to create this framework,” she told me.

“I think I completed that work. Our office has been able to lay the foundation for what will be known as the ‘people’s house’ and it has already taken shape.”

Terrific job? One can hardly claim a terrific job on one’s resume when the President of the United States has to run cover and prevented Rogers from testifying before Congress in Party Crasher-gate.

The lack of detail and afterward lack of accountability on her part has pretty much summed up the Obama Administration in a microcosm.

Maybe Obama’s next choice will actually be a social secretary instead of a Diva.  There is no way that in some part this resignation is not in apart due to the Salahi fiasco.

Barack Obama … -21% Presidential Approval Index, 43% Approval Rate

OUCH!!!

President Barack Obama’s approval ratings have hit the skids again following his less than Presidential showing at this past weeks so-called bipartisan Health Care Summit. Obama finds himself with a 43% approval rating in the Rasmussen poll and a -21% Daily Presidential Index. This ties his all time low, see trends.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 22% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for President Obama.

Barack Obama’s poll numbers are in free fall yet again.  Only 43% of voters said according to the Rasmussen poll that they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance, this is the lowest level of total approval yet measured for this President.  55% stated that they disapproved.

The Presidents continued pushing of his unpopular health care bill could be his complete undoing. After having claimed that he wanted to hear from Republicans and their ideas, in the end it was apparent to all that it was just a show and Obama planned on raming the Democrat version of health care on every one no matter what ideas Republicans offered or what We the People wanted.

Massive 8.8 Earthquake Rocks Chile, Pacific Under Tsunami Threat

A powerful and massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake has hit Chile early Saturday morning. To date 78 people have been reported dead and the earthquake has triggered a tsunami warning for the Pacific. President Michelle Bachelet has declared a “state of catastrophe” in affected areas and appealed for calm.

The US Geological Survey said the earthquake struck 56 miles northeast of the city of Concepcion at a depth of 22 miles at 3:34 a.m. (1:34 a.m. EST). Tsunami warnings have been issued for Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Central America and Pacific island nations.

The quake’s epicenter was located off the coast of Maule, about 200 miles southwest of Santiago. It struck at 3:34 a.m. (1:34 a.m. ET), when most people were sleeping.

Massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck south-central Chile

Buildings caught fire and residents huddled in streets strewn with glass and masonry, many terrified by powerful aftershocks and desperately trying to call friends and family.

President Michelle Bachelet said there were 78 confirmed deaths and that more were possible. Telephone and power lines were down, making it difficult to assess the full extent of the damage close to the epicenter.

Chile is the world’s No. 1 copper producer, and the quake halted operations at two major mines near the capital.

There have been a number of aftershocks following the earthquake measuring as high as 6.9.

UPDATE I: It is sadly being reported that 82 people are now confirmed dead.  Now 85 confirmed dead. The death toll is now confirmed at 122 and rising.

Say a prayer for them all …

UPDATE II: Hawaii residents issued tsunami warning after massive 8.8-earthquake jolts Chile.

If a tsunami wave does hit Hawaii it is being predicted at about 4:19 EDT. It is the first time in 16 years that Hawaiian residents have been asked to evacuate coastal areas.

State officials in Hawaii have activated their emergency response plans to prepare for a possible tsunami caused by the massive earthquake in Chile, an official said Saturday.

Geophysicist: Tsunami Is Rapidly Approaching Hawaii

There have been over 57 aftershocks and the death toll is now reported over over 147 people.

UPDATE III: Chile Earthquake kills more then 700

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake can be nothing more than an unthinkable nightmare. 100′s of aftershocks and sadly over 700 confirmed deceased and counting.

President Michelle Bachelet said that 708 people were confirmed dead and that the total was likely to rise.

The death toll from Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude quake had stood at 400 earlier on Sunday, before state television quoted emergency officials as saying that 350 people were killed in the coastal town of Constitucion, which was hit by a tsunami.

From ABC News:

God bless those who have passed and their families and loved ones.  These types of events just remind us how powerful nature truly is and how insignificant we are in the grand scope of things.  The Chilean people are going to need our help. Let’s me there like we always have been in the past for them.

Embattled NY Governor David Paterson Says He’s Not Running,

It’s official … embattled New York Governor David Paterson will not run for reelection; however, he stated he will serve out his term and not resign from office.

A scandal-scarred Gov. Paterson formally ended his short-lived election campaign Friday afternoon.

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An Obamanation Bipartisan Sham Waste of Time, Barack Obama Ends Health Care Summit with Threat to Republicans

How Presidential, a threat in the end if he don’t get his way.

Dear Mr. President, Who is the Party of No? Who is the Party of no Compromise? You have a health care bill that no one wants, including your own party and you continue to threaten Americans by ramming it down their throats.

This President and Democrat controlled Congress must go … they refuse to listen to the will of the people.

Can some one explain what the purpose was of the Barack Obama dog and pony show yesterday that was called a health care summit and billed as  an exchange of ideas between Democrats and Republicans?

After a year of wasted time in which the American people rejected the PRO (Pelosi, Reid, Obama) health care legislation, Barack Hussein Obama comes to the summit with a bill in hand as a starting point that was the same failed Senate plan that no one wanted.

At the end of 7 hours of supposed listening by Barack Obama … this is his closing arguments to Republicans, “I will not start over” and he threatened them and the American people that he an Democrats will ram health care down their collective throats.

How dense, unbending and tone deaf to the American people is this President?

• 56% of Americans oppose Obama health care plan, 41% approve
• Americans by a 49% to 42% margin oppose rather than favor Congress passing a health care bill
• 61% of Americans want Obama to start health care from scratch and scrap the existing plan

Barack Hussein Obama stated, that’s what elections are for.  That is what you voted into office America, an individual who just because elected thinks he can do anything he damn well pleases to destroy the United States.

From the Gateway Pundit, some of Obama incredibly arrogant closing comments:

“What I do know is this, if we saw movement, significant movement, not just gestures, then you wouldn’t need to start over because essentially everybody here knows what the issues are, and procedurally it could get done fairly quickly.

“We cannot have another year long debate about this. So, the question I’m going to ask myself and I ask all of you is, is there enough serious effort that in a month’s time or a few week’s time or six week’s time we could actually resolve something? And if we can’t I think we got to go ahead and make some decisions and that’s what elections are for. We have honest disagreements about the vision for the country and we’ll go ahead and test those out over the next several months until November. Alright?”

Slate says that summit was a tie between Obama and Republicans, a loss for Democrats. I am not sure if I agree with this one. Barack Obama was a moderator with an agenda and an attitude. His smartalic comments back at Republicans were unbecoming of a leader and a President. When confronted with facts, he called them talking points. It is obvious that Obama has never been told no.

In the end he told Republicans and the American people to kiss off and he was going to do it his way whether they agreed or not. So what was the point of the summit? It was nothing more than theater. Which is what we knew all along.

Mr. President, election do have consequences and you and your Democrats are about to learn a lesson like you will never soon forget come this November if you continue down this path of not listening to We the People.