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Cass Sunstein Out!

Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/08/04 14:12:42
He wants to go back to Harvard and teach, that's all.
He couldn't get the nudge job done, so Obama will find someone who can.
Obama sees him as a liability.
Obama threw him under the bus.
Obama needed to put him on ice.
What are you talking about? He hasn't left at all!
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That's right. Cass Sunstein is OUT as the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a/k/a "The Regulatory Czar." Haven't heard that, I suppose. In fact, this story broke last night and even Fox News isn't talking about it.

A Cass Sunstein does not go quietly into the night without some deep, dark reason. This is so deep and so dark that the White House doesn't even use the old bromide about "wanting to spend more time with his family." Ostensibly he's going back to Harvard to teach "behavioral economics," a/k/a creative "nudging" by regulation.

Ask yourselves: what is really going on here? If you click through to the article, you'll get the dope on what "behavioral economics" really means. You'll learn that the liberals got impatient with him, as if he didn't move fast enough.

And then you'll learn this interesting fact. Two years ago, according to a military source, he wrote a blueprint for ensuring Barack Obama's continuance in office beyond 2012 "by any means necessary." Valerie Jarrett allegedly signed off on this. And Obama started to implement it.

So why is he suddenly slipping out the back door, with no reporters asking any questions at all? Since when does a man like that get "dumped" with the Friday Afternoon Documents? What's the real dope? Is he ducking for cover? Covering up?

Or did Obama throw him under the bus, because his brilliant plans to shove people into voting for him are falling flat?

Read More: http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2012/08/03...

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  • Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/08/04 14:17:39
    Obama needed to put him on ice.
    Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆
    +23
    Something strange is going on. This is the quietest White House departure, and of such a senior officer, that I have ever seen. And suppose he did write up a plan to keep Obama in "by any means necessary." Maybe Sunstein had to leave because, all of a sudden, people aren't reacting the way he or Obama thought they would.

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  • dominic... ☆astac☆ 2012/08/05 02:31:05
    dominic garcia
    +2
    I was being sarcastic. Obama is as corrupt as you can get, in his Muslim faith they are allowed to lie. He obviously is not a Christian and he has fooled many, but not me!!!!!
  • Birthpangs 2012/08/04 19:06:08
  • 3kidsandamom 2012/08/04 18:57:48
    He couldn't get the nudge job done, so Obama will find someone who can.
    3kidsandamom
    +5
    Obama's own supporters are beginning to question some policies that BHO's people have pushed so it's time to pretend that he will make a change. Until he's reelected and has more freedom to do as he pleases he will play the game...
  • Ken 2012/08/04 18:43:08
    Obama sees him as a liability.
    Ken
    +10
    Great post! The only reason Sunstein would be leaving at this time is that Obama sees him as a liability. The sad thing is that he will be back at Harvard poisoning the minds of more naive young people.
    From the article link: "Simply put, he wants to use regulation to nudge people to do what he wants them to do." I think "nudge" is too weak a term, what Obama, Sunstein and their ilk actually want to do is force people to do what they want them to do.
    Now if we can only get rid of the Marxist in the Oval Office and the rest of his socialist/communist "Czars!" November 6, 2012, can't come soon enough.
  • Artist 2012/08/04 18:36:37
    None of the above
    Artist
    +9
    If he's really gone it's because he sees the obama bus heading for the cliff, lol!
  • Al B Th... Artist 2012/08/05 00:52:14
    Al B Thayer
    Heading off a cliff? In what way? Certainly not in the polls. He leads practly every one. For me I'm worried. You know the milk toast independents will side with the assumed leader and vote for him in order to be on the winning side. Mittens needs to be leading in the polls.
  • Artist Al B Th... 2012/08/05 12:05:47
    Artist
    +1
    He's doing very well and Romney's finally taking off the gloves. In some polls he's ahead. obama's approval is dropping all the time...well below 50%.
    Nah, Mitt's still got some work cut out for him but obama is toast and his staff knows it too!
  • Al B Th... Artist 2012/08/05 13:07:36
    Al B Thayer
    +1
    Well I hope your right because I know I'm right about indy voting trinds.
  • apachehellfire65 2012/08/04 18:13:40
    None of the above
    apachehellfire65
    +9
    i think he is running scared. he does not want to be around when obummer loses. and he don't want to be around for what obummer might do when he loses.
  • schjaz 2012/08/04 18:09:37
    Obama threw him under the bus.
    schjaz
    +8
    Well, that's what they do best, isn't it? Back door in the middle of the night...yeh, sounds right to me.
  • Alexander 2012/08/04 18:08:33
    He couldn't get the nudge job done, so Obama will find someone who can.
    Alexander
    +6
    What was he really in the Administration for. He did nothing but collect a Federal check. I guess Obama did not need him there anymore.
  • schjaz Alexander 2012/08/04 18:10:49
    schjaz
    +8
    That's right...you got it. Did he eve need him there or is this about greasing palms with greenbacks?
  • tommyg - POTL- PWCM-JLA 2012/08/04 17:46:31
    Undecided
    tommyg - POTL- PWCM-JLA
    +13
    And on a Friday news dump to boot. Interesting...
  • schjaz tommyg ... 2012/08/04 18:11:48
    schjaz
    +13
    harry reid did the same thing to romney. threw a bomb then cowardly took off for vacation for over a month. this administration is full of creeps.
  • tommyg ... schjaz 2012/08/04 18:15:10
    tommyg - POTL- PWCM-JLA
    +8
    Agreed.
  • foy49 2012/08/04 17:22:26 (edited)
    He wants to go back to Harvard and teach, that's all.
    foy49
    “Cass has shown that it is possible to support economic growth without sacrificing health, safety and the environment,” Obama said in a statement today. “With these reforms and his tenacious promotion of cost-benefit analysis, his efforts will benefit Americans for years to come.”

    Rules during the first 32 months of the Obama administration cost $19.9 billion and delivered $91 billion in net benefits, according to the Office of Management and Budget, the parent agency of OIRA.

    Pretty good cost/benefit ratio.
  • Bunk11 foy49 2012/08/04 18:00:12
    Bunk11
    +7
    Pretty good fantasy, proving you can make up any numbers you want with statistics. The OMB is not exactly a neutral observer, as its members work at the pleasure of the president.
  • schjaz Bunk11 2012/08/04 18:12:19
    schjaz
    +4
    thats what i was thinking? maybe on Mars.
  • foy49 Bunk11 2012/08/04 18:16:07
    foy49
    Not true.
  • Bunk11 foy49 2012/08/04 18:32:02
    Bunk11
    +6
    What isn't true? The president appoints and can remove the director of OMB and all the other important people there. Maybe some secretaries and low-level analysts aren't political appointees, but even if that's true, they are told what information to produce. Calculating the costs and benefits of regulations is tricky, especially the benefits, and requires a lot of assumptions. Change the assumptions, you change the benefits. Don't count something as a cost and you change the costs. I could take the same numbers the OMB used and calculate exactly the opposite cost:benefit ratio.
  • foy49 Bunk11 2012/08/04 19:10:00 (edited)
    foy49
    +1
    Wiki/the fedral office of budget and management/ read it.
  • Bunk11 foy49 2012/08/05 20:32:45
    Bunk11
    And what am I supposed to read while I'm at that site? I'm familiar with the OMB.
  • Hula girl - Friends not Fol... 2012/08/04 17:08:51
    What are you talking about? He hasn't left at all!
    Hula girl - Friends not Followers
    +15
    Don't worry he'll surface in some other position like all the others that work with the puppet master to get their agenda across.
  • schjaz Hula gi... 2012/08/04 18:12:46
    schjaz
    +6
    possible...they are all getting rich off us.
  • Diane S... Hula gi... 2012/08/05 02:11:13
    Diane Spraggs Yates
    +2
    Van Jones is in the back not out !
  • Hula gi... Diane S... 2012/08/05 02:32:35
    Hula girl - Friends not Followers
    +1
    I know. It's the Shadow Government
  • tom C 2012/08/04 16:59:46
    Obama threw him under the bus.
    tom  C
    +10
    Either he has some investigation on his butt...or Obama saw him as a liability...
    we may never know the truth........
  • schjaz tom C 2012/08/04 18:14:01
    schjaz
    +6
    just another reason to end this oblahblah administration. once they are out, the books will start flying and the peeps will be singing like birdies. it'll come out sooner or later.
  • TruBluTopaz 2012/08/04 16:53:57
    Obama sees him as a liability.
    TruBluTopaz
    +10
    Obama doesn't mind someone doing the dirty work for his campaign, he just doesn't like when they get caught. Mark these words, someone in the media has something BIG on this guy and it leads right to the Oval Office. I still think that the Obama campaign used stimulus money given to crony campaign contributors to skim money off the top. That would fit in with the situational ethics of this administration. But he could also be the leaker or at least the person they intend to blame for leaking high security information to the press.
  • harley oldman 2012/08/04 16:52:47
    None of the above
    harley oldman
    +2
    He should be ushered into that Long Deep sleep.......!
  • U-Dog 2012/08/04 16:52:03
    He couldn't get the nudge job done, so Obama will find someone who can.
    U-Dog
    +5
    There could be more to it but my guess is that his departure is mainly due to the fact that Sunstein, who is no regulatory slouch, isn't nearly radical enough for the far left Obama minions.
  • mk, Smartass Oracle 2012/08/04 16:47:35
    Obama sees him as a liability.
    mk, Smartass Oracle
    +4
    Obama is afraid he may tell the truth
  • seadog6608PWCM 2012/08/04 16:44:01
  • Arizona1950 2012/08/04 16:38:35
    Obama threw him under the bus.
    Arizona1950
    +6
    It seems he failed to advance federal health and safety rules nearly as much as Obama supporters had hoped and for failing in his attempt to win over powerful corporate interests by offering to roll back regulations they disliked.

    Reading between the lines ... previous Obama corporate supporters have gone over to Romney in the hopes (or promise) that Romneycare will bring it forward and the Obama is ticked!
  • schjaz Arizona... 2012/08/04 18:15:30
    schjaz
    +4
    gotta blame somebody...Oblahblah cannot be responsible.
  • No nonsense NanC...don't BS... 2012/08/04 16:31:46
    Obama needed to put him on ice.
    No nonsense NanC...don't BS me!
    +12
    Cass Sunstein was outed three years ago by Soros enemy #1, Glenn Beck!



    I hope he takes his wife, Samantha Powers with him...... she has dangerous influence
    on the US policy in the UN.
    glenn beck cass sunstein

    Hillary Susan Rice samantha powers US policy UN

    Check out what Samantha stands for at 610 of this video.



    So I hope Samantha follows her husband to exile.....she is as dangerous as he,
    maybe more so.
  • tdterry... No nons... 2012/08/04 21:09:36
    tdterry1999
    +4
    Good find/That explains a lot.
  • No nons... tdterry... 2012/08/04 21:12:59
    No nonsense NanC...don't BS me!
    +2
    Thank you..........As a supporter of Hillary in the primaries, I tuned into things others
    may not have noted.... and Samantha Powers was one of them.
  • PrettieReptar 2012/08/04 16:26:48
    Obama sees him as a liability.
    PrettieReptar
    +8
    A liability as far as his chances for reelection. I don't think the parting was amicable.
  • jubil8 BN-0 PON 2012/08/04 16:13:27
    None of the above
    jubil8 BN-0 PON
    +3
    Both HuffPo and the NY Times had articles about this yesterday too, and both are much more objective than the link here. Surprise, surprise.

    I'll just go with the fact that he was screwing up, so he's going back to teaching (screw up people not regulations hehe). Maybe there was handwriting on the wall, maybe not. All these sinister, fear-mongering hints and questions are silly imo.

    [Btw, HuffPo's article is timed 3:26 pm, so maybe this link wasn't first.]

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