Today Obama White House Chief of Staff William Daley made official his resignation and return “back to Chicago”. In light of this development, we now take our own look back at the related words of Insider spoken months ago on the possibility of this very scenario…
…In the Obama White House, you have the Oval Office, and you have Jarrett’s office on the second floor. That second floor office has been where the real power has resided. That is no exaggeration. Jarrett has people around the Oval Office who report back to her. Everything. She sets the agenda and that agenda is sent directly to the president, who more often than not, never questions it. And as Jarrett assumed more control over the day to day operations of the West Wing, the president happily backed away. He had little interest in policy. He had even less interest in the work to form that policy. As long as he “looks good” – that’s all that matters to him, right? I know I’m repeating myself a bit here, but I’m getting to it.
So inside that White House, you have these little sub groups right? Each of those groups reports to Jarrett. She oversees everything. Everything. That is, until Bill Daley arrived. Bill started to assert himself. He’s the White House Chief of Staff for -expletive- sakes! He started to bring power back to the first floor of the West Wing, and leave Jarrett more isolated in her second floor office. Jarrett pushed back. Daley took it. Jarrett complained to Michelle. Michelle stood down. She got word to back the -expletive- off and that is what she did. So this situation finally reached a climax recently – Valerie Jarrett lost it. I don’t have the specifics of the meeting, I believe it concerned a staff member, perhaps Geithner…been getting a lot of chatter surrounding Geithner, or what information – whatever it was that set her off. But she lost it. The lady went ballistic, which I’m pretty certain is just what Daley wanted. Something was to have come to her first. An agenda, a meeting plan – something along those lines. Daley froze her out. She was left upstairs while the meeting took place. Staff were instructed – directly instructed, to leave her out of it. Word got back to Jarrett of course. And so, she summoned Daley to her office. Now understand, officially, Valerie Jarrett is a senior adviser, right? That’s her position. She’s not the White House Chief of Staff. That position, if held by someone who knows how to fully utilize the power inherent in that position…that’s a powerful spot. Bill Daley knows that kind of power, and he knows how to use it against a creature like Valerie -expletive- Jarrett. So Jarrett summons Daley to her office. She waits while he is supposed to make the trip upstairs to see her.
Daley blows her off. Ignores her. Now I’m sitting here telling you this knowing you can’t fully appreciate just how satisfying it was for me to first hear that. Jarrett starts asking staff why Daley has not made the meeting. She calls down to Daley’s office and gets the run around. Classic West Wing politicking but being played this time by a guy who really knows how to pull it off. Jarrett refuses to go down to Daley’s office – and by now she’s letting certain staff know she’s not happy about being ignored. Normally, people cross Valerie Jarrett and they are gone. Not this time though. Daley has support far greater than Valerie Jarrett’s relationship to the Obamas. They need him, and he knows that. And when Bill Daley leaves that White House, it will be on his terms, not theirs.
So Jarrett fires off an email to the First Lady’s office, and within minutes, someone close to the First Lady is in Jarrett’s office, no doubt conspiring. Now I want you to get this just right, ok? They were in Jarrett’s office for approximately 12 minutes. 12 minutes. Make sure you put that in this report. 12 minutes. The following day another call is made by Jarrett – she personally makes the call, to Daley’s office. Another request for a meeting. Again Daley ignores her. Later that same day, Jarrett heads over to the residence. This would indicate she is meeting with either one or both of the Obamas. The president was not in the Oval Office that day, and he was not at the White House for about half the day, so it would make sense to assume Jarrett was likely meeting with the First Lady, and I believe the primary reason was the situation with Daley – Jarrett’s anger against Bill Daley. His alleged disrespect of her. I assume this because the next morning, the same individual from the First Lady’s office who had visited with Valerie Jarrett, came to Daley’s West Wing office personally. She was not scheduled and was made to wait, only to later be told Mr. Daley would not be available that day. When word of this got back to Jarrett she lit into staff – and then she made the trip downstairs. She didn’t go to Daley’s office though, but to Mastromonaco’s office across the hall. There was some yelling by Jarrett, some strong profanity…it was heard by staff outside, and then Jarrett left and returned upstairs. She was visibly upset. Her office was on edge – the lady was not happy. Nobody has ever challenged her absolute authority in the White House – until Bill Daley.
That afternoon, a scheduled meeting was held in the Oval Office that included both Bill Daley and Valerie Jarrett. I don’t know what took place inside that meeting, but whatever it was spilled out to the hall outside the Oval Office near the Roosevelt Room. Jarrett was heard hissing something to Daley and jabbing her finger at him. Daley simply turned and began walking back down the hall toward his office as Jarrett stood glaring back at him. Daley then turned back abruptly and made his way toward Jarrett. A member of Jarrett’s staff intercepted him and there was some kind of exchange – not heated, their voices were calm, and Daley even laughed with them – like they had shared a joke. This set off Jarrett, and she flew down the hall – that is how it was described to me exactly – she flew down the hall, and once again she was in Daley’s face pointing at him. By this time the president’s assistant, a young man by the name of Reggie Love, who has been there from day one I believe, emerged from the Oval Office quarters and made his way toward both Daley and Jarrett. Now Mr. Love is a big fella. Large man. He placed himself between both Jarrett and Daley, and then placed his hand on Daley’s shoulder and shoved him. Not hard, but hard enough that Daley took a step back. Bill Daley was heard to tell Mr. Love to “Please back away – now.” He was calm throughout the altercation. Jarrett though was still very…vocal in her dissatisfaction with the White House Chief of Staff, and by now a number of staff were in the hall watching all of this unfold. Oddly enough, no sign of President Obama though, who apparently remained holed up inside the Oval Office, or his study.
After a few more words from Jarrett, Daley turned back around and returned to his office while Jarrett made her way back to the Oval Office with Love. They were in there for nearly 30 minutes before Bill Daley came down the hall and entered the Oval Office himself and another 20 minutes or so passed before Jarrett emerged alone and headed back upstairs. It was then 10 or 15 minutes before Daley came out. He was in a good mood, joking with a member of Plouffe’s staff who he met in the hall. As they were parting, the First Lady was making her way quickly down the hall toward the Oval Office. She walked past Daley without acknowledging him, even though it was clearly heard by others that Daley gave her a friendly greeting. She remained in the Oval Office for no more than a few minutes, though she could be heard shouting right before she came back out – this time with the young man, Mr. Love, walking with her back down the hall. He was apparently struggling to keep up with the First Lady, who was walking pretty damn fast. The staff could hear her coming before they saw her.
And from a later report from Insider in August of 2011:
No…what I will say is that those are two of the three tactics we are engaging in against Barack Obama’s re-election – continuing to push Eric Holder out of the DOJ, securing a primary challenger, and the other thing…it relates to a staffing issue. The loss of a critical member of the Obama staff. A resignation that will further the growing perception that the Obama White House is a place of internal disarray– which it absolutely is. And this event will also be a signal to those in the Democratic Party that Barack Obama’s re-election is not in their best future interests. It is time we cut our losses and begin the rebuilding process sooner rather than later. And I’m not just talking about the Democratic Party – I’m talking about the country. All of us. All of us need to correct this mistake, and that’s what the election of Barack Obama was. At its core, that’s what it really was – a huge mistake.”
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Yes it was – now fix it. -UM
This gives WHI a lot more credibility–and he had plenty going in.
Yes, he (WHI) is very credible and so is Wall Street Insider.
WHI predicted Holder will be GONE by the time the 2012 election is in full swing. WHI said the negative info coming out on Holder will be very sloooow…
and it has been slow, but that he is GONE, FIRED!
We shall see… but WHI was wrong once… Pelosi is still leader of the House Democrats and he stated she was going to get the boot after the Nov 2010 election.
But Pelosi kissed major ass to stay in and was forced to play by their rules. Note: she doesn’t wield the power and podium as she once did.
Pelosi could have blackmailed someone to keep her position. I wouldn’t put it past her or any of the string pullers.
@ Enough, I agree. Pelosi may have blackmailed to remain in leadership. However, WHI has been right so far on everything else.
Oh another something WHI has stated is that they have been working to have someone primary Obama. Nader was whining on thehill.com yesterday that no one wants to primary Obama due to Obama’s strong arming them.
I do not believe WHI said we are definitely going to primary Obama, but that it is in the works. Ulsterman asked WHI approximately one to two months ago if this was still the plan and WHI replied yes. I dont think this was ever set in concrete though. It would sure be nice to see a primary waged against Obama.
It’s been a while since I first read this . Interesting that Love left the WH some time ago – even more interesting that Daley has left . I was skeptical of WHI , but not any longer .
Bret Baer of Fox News was on WLS radio where he just said Bill Daley will be going to Chicago to be co-chair with David Axelrod for Obama’s re-election…which means he is not turning on Obama and this administration but rather helping the communist to stay in power
This definitely hurts Obama. Make no mistake about it.
Gibbs left as Press Secretary and they claimed he was going to be with Axelrod, helping with the campaign. Cover-ups of a dysfunctional White House.
WHI has been quite accurate especially looking at the new Kantor book, Keep at it Ulsterman!!! I know these Daley’s are slippery but Bill Daley needs to come clean for the sake of the country about what is really going on in this WH!!! Jarrett and MO are not elected officials and this is outrageous. Also previous WHI stated racial undertones at heart of MO and Lynn Sweet, Chicago is reporting “….MO’s concern over the concentrated power of the Irish, white Catholic….”
Yeah and the Kantor book brought up the sly approach Obama has toward racism. Recall the tale Kantor told on Obama when he had his hair cut during his senate race? Donors were waiting for him at a meeting and a staffer named Coffey finally found Obama at the barbershop. Obama approached Coffey stating something such as: “A black man and his haircut with his barber is sacred. Because you involved yourself in this, you now have to watch Barbershop! After you have done that, you must watch Barbershop II!
Obama takes a sly approach to his racism, but there are some obvious approaches. Watch him during the State of the Union Speech….. As he enters, he will greet blacks very warmly and whites will receive simple handshakes. Watch Obama as he leaves the SOTU Speech, the same thing. He gives a handshake and body hug to some of his black friends, but never to any whites. I have paid attention to this for the past several speeches.
Obama tells on himself of his racist ways.
If they are syaing that Daley is going back to Chi town to sit around with Axelrod that is just PR BS Americabeut. Same thing they said about Gibbs and the new book out if you read UMs story on that shows that GIbbs and the Obamas were total pi–ed off. Its politics that only we see on the outside what they want us to see. Ulsterman gives us the inside look. and it once again looks like you can take it to the bank. I say anyone but Obama in 2012 America!!!!!!!!!
You’re 100% right on the money, Rooster! I posted to AmericatheBeautiful before reading your post.
Rushed over here to let you know Bill Daley is actually gone. Looks like a lot of others beat me to it! Congratulations on another prediction come true Ulsterman and Insider! Hope to hear more please. Are you going to take that walk in DC?
I heard the WLS report as well. It certainly is murky. Add the American Thinker report about Rahm Emmanuel and the murder investation relating to a Daley cousin. It certainly will be interesting to follow in the next couple of weeks.
Does this mean Jarret is in full control, now?
Sure would like WHI’s take on this development.
Hopefully Jarret will direct & control Obama right out of the White House.
Chicago Political Turf War Heats Up
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/chicago_political_turf_war_heats_up.html
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/01/michelle_obama_distressed_abou.html
Go to this link for even more re Michelle and the Daleys. There’s something brewing here.
Can you imagine all the “inside te WH” books that will come out after this “Failed legacy” is gone….People will be spilling all kids of beans to make a buck !!!
The house of cards is starting to shake more and more, the only things holding it together is the POS Attorney General Holder and a narcissist bigger than Obamalamadingdong, Jarrett herself! It’s only a matter of time before this comes crashing down HARD!!!
To quote Flounder from Animal House; “Oh boy is this gonna be great” when this implodes!!!
I think that today’s news is a clear indication that the old school Democrats and the new regime Debamacrats are at swords points. No way is the Daley machine going to give a pass to Barry and his cast of Klowns, especially Vladorie the Impaler or Mooch-elle. Notice how Barry has rotated ex-Clintonites through key positions…and many have run for the hills or are (hopefully) facing indictments. What has Gibbs done lately? What will Daley do between now and November? I’ll bet the farm (since it’s going for taxes anyway) we won’t hear from them or see them lending assistance to Barry’s campaign. I bet Ted Kennedy is turning in his grave for ever endorsing Barry Obamatoro.
I doubt Ted is turning for that reason…Ted was a traitor to his country like his father before him. Kennedy offering to help the Kremiin destroy his president, President Reagan was nothing short of a hanging offense. Kennedy was a filthy communist traitor. Check out his nephew Bobby and the rest of that lousy clan getting their money from Chavez.
And Joe Kennedy was a Nazi sympathizer. Ted Kennedy was also the poster boy for depravity. The whole family is white trash scum.
We must draft, nominate and elect Sarah Palin president in the most crushing tidal wave of enthusiastic good judgment ever seen in the history of this nation. With that one bold move we will accomplish the dual goals of seeing America led by the greatest natural born leader in our generation, even as we witness the final implosion and last agonized shrieks of our endlessly lying extreme left loonies. Their entire movement, from the fabricated attacks on Bush beginning with ‘Blood For Oil’ to the crammed-down-our-gullets lies of Obamacare and the Shovel Ready Stimulus, have been nothing but one vile deceit heaped upon another. Such an absolute inability to deal in the truth or to face the facts of our situation and its solutions only proves that there is simply no place at the grown-ups’ table for these diseased sputa. Good riddance to rubes and bad rubbish. Time to usher in the American Renaissance, carried in on the invigoratingly freshening breeze of President Sarah Palin.
http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/white-house-insider-obamas-west-wing-civil-war/
The above Ulsterman article from newsflavor is very much worth reading for a refreshment of what’s brewing ….
Big Dem campaign donors sensing Obama is not worth the big $$ now with Daley leaving??
Looks like UM has the only reliable sources available. WHI and WSI are assets that are a lot like Safire’s assets – (until Safire lost ‘em over Iraq.)
One thing, though: UM needs to be sure of his feeds. The stuff on Paul is straight from Dem/Romney central, because Romney could actually lose Virginia to Ron Paul. As well he should, with the skullduggery of the Virginia GOP and the sitting governor. Word of advice, UM: don’t get cocky.
This stuff on Daley and Jarrett, though – that’s the real deal.
One other word, UM: Hillary isn’t interested, and no one is in the wings. That means Romney and the Dems have made a deal. Doesn’t mean the unions and Obama won’t use the race/class narrative. Gingrich has already spoiled that a little – actually doing Romney a favor, believe it or not.
The fix is in. Daley knows that a weak Republican with liberal tendencies will be easier for the remaining less-left Democrats to vote for. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of those remaining, unless they’re underground. And they may not know what Obama and the unions have in store for Mittens, either. As I said: a weak Republican is someone the Dems can hold their nose and vote for – better for them next election cycle.
If there is another election cycle. These folks think it’s all about politics. Maybe they should talk seriously with WSI.
I’m afraid we’ll have Romney as the R candidate and he’ll pick McShame as his VP. Just the thought alone makes me throw up in my mouth.
I really despise Romney and McShame.
He is right, whoever this WHI is.
This is not the first time, either.