Get rid of your Rasputin, Mr. President.
Whole tea plantations in Nepal will now be stripped bare to supply all the leaves needed to read President Barack Obama’s strategy in response to this Republican wave election. Will the president negotiate in earnest for tax reform and immigration? Will he finally come out of his hermit crab shell and engage in the hard, squalid and frustrating business of sitting down with members of Congress to hash out compromises?
Or will Obama seem to do these things, while positioning himself to exploit the ideological divisions within the GOP in a continuing effort to avoid responsibility and shift blame? Perhaps Obama will simply upend the legislative chessboard entirely, and assert unprecedented extensions of executive authority to ram through cherished goals, like the legalization of millions of illegal aliens.
Here’s the only tea leaf you need to read: You can tell the president’s intentions, stance and strategy by whether or not he shakes up his White House staff, beginning with Valerie Jarrett, a staffer who has accumulated the power, resources and the formal trappings of a prime minister.
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