Those who have followed my political blogs knows that I am often right in my predictions. That is because I pay attention. I know how the folks on the other side operate. If something works once, they try it again. And again. They are conservatives, after all. They prefer the tried and true.

Here is what David Rockefeller and his breed are already planning. I call it “Operation Carter Hands Over Control of the Country to Republicans for 12 Years, Part II”.

First, promise Obama their undying support in the next election---if he dumps the Democratic base. Since any candidate for public office fears the destructive power of the corporate media, President Obama will want to believe them. He will alienate the people whose support he should be shoring up in case 2012 is a tough one. Labor, women, gays, immigrants, the elderly.

Now, what will make 2012 tough? Recession. Unemployment. Tight credit. Who has the most control over the economy? Since Congress and the President will not pass any meaningful jobs legislation, the corporations have pretty much full power. The banksters can afford to sit tight and let the economy flounder. They have hundreds of billions of our dollars in their vaults to tide them over. The oil companies can raise prices. They will blame OPEC, of course. A few key big employers will lay off American workers and send the jobs overseas. Their lackeys in the corporate media will begin to declare that high taxes and the big deficit are to blame. They will suggest that Obama, as a Senator, did not have enough executive experience. They will call for another governor, another Ronald Reagan to save the day. They will anoint…

Romney. He even looks like Reagan. And his state had health care before the rest of the country (by 2012 people will be salivating over the health care that they thought they were buying in 2008 but which still will not have been delivered). Romney will get on TV with his perfect hair and declare that he has the fiscal responsibility it takes to whip this country’s economy back in shape. He will call himself the new Reagan and the new Bill Clinton. Promises of tax cuts will help, too. It is much easier for a candidate to promise tax cuts than it is for a sitting president to deliver them.

The Republicans will further splinter the Democrats by funding another Nader. The corporate media will actually identify an appropriate candidate and tell Republicans that if they send him money, Obama could lose (the way they did back in 2000). They will alienate the independents by engineering a foreign relations debacle---say, for instance, a take over of the US embassy in Pakistan. Bush’s CIA colleagues will be glad to help, if Romney agrees to put Jeb (the “smart one”) on the ticket with him. Obama will not be able to rescue the hostages for fear that the Pakistanis might use their nukes. The Pakistani government will be bribed by David Rockefeller to stall…

Just throw in some e-vote fraud and all Romney will have to do is secure the votes of 47% of the people in a few key states. The rest of the votes will be created for him through the magic of computer tabulation and African-American voter suppression.

If this sounds implausible, recall that the GOP has stolen two elections already using these tactics (and I am not even counting Kissinger’s secret deal with the South Vietnamese in 1968 that helped Nixon beat Humphrey). If it was good enough for Reagan/Bush and Bush/Cheney, it will be good enough for Romney/Bush. The GOP does not strive to provide the nation with transformative change. They do not care if their playbook is tattered and torn. They will do whatever they saw work the last time. This was the key political weakness of Rove and understanding how the Grand Old Party thinks will be essential if we are to stop the next coup---

But first, Obama needs to start acting a lot more like FDR and a lot less like Jimmy Carter. Carter allowed the press to blame him for the economic disaster bequeathed to him by Ford/Nixon. FDR made sure that everyone knew who the real culprits were.

Obama needs to point his finger at the banksters and at insurance company executives and make sure that the public know exactly who is to blame for our current mess. Otherwise, the press will soon be telling Americans Obama did it! He needs to roll up his shirt sleeves and mingle with the common folk, the way he did back in 2008. He needs to act like he gives a damn. He needs to declare that 2014 is too long for sick Americans to wait for health care and use the power of the administrative branch to open Medicare up to anyone without insurance who has significant medical problems. He needs to slap big penalties on US companies that move jobs overseas—and make sure that the press covers him doing it.

In a time of economic crisis, a Democratic president can not be perceived to be a friend of the rich and powerful, because that makes him an enemy of the people whose votes he needs to get re-elected.



This man was re-elected three times ! He did a lot of things right. There is no reason that Democrats can not act like Republicans and learn from the lessons of history, too.

PS Oh, and watch out for Fitz in Chicago. There is a reason he went on TV to declare the Gov. Good Hair Blago was the worst villain in history since Jack the Ripper. He needed to keep his job in the new administration. Why? What kind of deals will he start cooking with people under indictment to get them to testify against Obama's associates---and maybe even the president himself? There is a reason that Bush Sr. left Linda Tripp behind in the White House. Fitz is Tripp, 2, the new improved model.