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By Jack Cashill.

Just a few days after the November election, Democratic strategist Mark Penn said out loud what many of his peers were thinking.

Penn told Chris Matthews on his MSNBC show Hardballthat President Obama needed the kind of Reichstag moment that Bill Clinton enjoyed after the Democrat’s electoral drubbing in 1994.

For the record, in 1933 Germany’s newly elected Chancellor, Adolph Hitler, used the mysterious burning of the Reichstag building, the home of Germany’s parliament, to scapegoat the Communist Party and suspend civil liberties.

To be fair, Penn did not use the word “Reichstag,” but he might as well have. He told Matthews that it took the Oklahoma City bombing for Clinton to “reconnect” with the American people. He then ventured that Obama needed a “similar event” to compensate for his party’s midterm disaster. (more…)

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For Release: January 6, 2011
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U.S. Chamber’s Endorsement of “Progressive Wolf in Banker’s Clothing” as White House Chief of Staff Questioned by National Center for Public Policy Research

At JPMorgan, Daley Led Charge to Raise the Price of Fossil Fuels in Service of Climate Change Agenda
Washington, D.C. – Experts from the National Center for Public Policy Research are questioning the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s endorsement of Bill Daley, a progressive banker who supports climate change policies, as White House chief of staff.

“Daley’s appointment reaffirms President Obama’s war on fossil fuels. As head of JPMorgan’s corporate social responsibility department, Daley lead the charge to raise the price of fossil fuels by advocating a climate change policy that is hostile to carbon-based energy – coal, gasoline and natural gas,” said Tom Borelli Ph.D., director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project. (more…)