Where are the President's lieutenants?

Where are the pitbulls that will take the fight to the Republicans?

Usually the President does not get down in the mud with his opposition, he has assistants and lieutenants that are willing to do that in his stead. He gets his message out without getting personally involved. Unless, of course, the President does not want anyone doing the dirty work for him?

But, shouldn't someone be going after the Republicans right now? What are they waiting on?

I've been wondering this too..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1865000

The GOP's permission.

they are trying to distance themselves from him.
Perhaps you didn't notice how he bypassed the Congressional dems in the debt ceiling and other actions....

The pit bulls are everywhere that Democrats gather, offline and on, down in the mud with the opposition doing the dirty work and fighting ferociously. The problem is they see the left wing of the party as the opposition first and foremost.

bully pulpits in this administration. The only one who qualified for pitbull duty (Rahm) is gone & he was too busy barking & biting at Democrats not Republicans. There's lots of "taking the high road", "being the adult in the room", being "bipartisan" at all costs, wanting to be friendly, collegial, civilized and shake hands across the table --- all with people who couldn't care less and only obstruct, automatically say no, & would gleefully kick President Obama in the balls or stab him in the back. Hell, you know the N-word is just waiting to spring from most of their lips. President Obama wants to be Mr. Nice-Nice and they treat him like shit ("You lie!"). In 40 years I have never seen (in the halls of Congress & from media pundits) such utter & public disrespect for a sitting President, nor a sitting President who just sat back and took it all. Maybe there really is something to his not wanting to be perceived as the "angry black man". President Obama needs to be possessed by the fighting spirit of Harry Truman but his style or agenda is not "give 'em hell" and I'm not holding my breath for any pushback against the Repubs.

Lower the lifeboats, and only let the ones big enough to pull an oar aboard!

Now, row like hell before the thing sucks us down with it!

Just wait until the enormity of what the Republicans have done to themselves really sinks in, and see what they have to say about it then.

The President has gamed the table so that he can create his own programs, fund them himself, thwart any attempt to stop him, take all the credit, and apply all of the blame to the Republicans, in an election season.

Even more deliciously, he did it by first screwing them in the tax cut extension "compromise" nine months ago, setting the expiration date so that his reelection is the only guarantee that the cuts will expire, something 70% of voters wish to see happen.

That led the Republicans to hold the economy hostage in an attempt to get that deal reversed. Not only did the President not cave in, he suckered them into effectively giving him the authority to appropriate unlimited funds to himself (but only in an emergency, like the one declared ten years ago and diligently extended by President Obama for another two years last fall).

So now, President Obama has effectively secured for himself unlimited authority and unlimited funds, and the Republicans in the House of Representatives can do nothing (legal) to stop him, unless they're willing to adopt the very legal arguments they have already carefully killed in their own packed courts.

And another nice, recurring touch: he ruined another vacation for the Republicans, because now everyone wants to talk about jobs, and not a single damned Republican candidate (or their staffs) knows a thing about creating jobs, so they'll have to spend the weekend learning. They better hope someone doesn't plant a Wikipedia trap for them, 'cause that's where they're all going to be while we're watching football. Some of them will also be puzzling over how, exactly, they walked into this, and start noticing that a certain someone already predicted and nullified every single counter-move they can make.

Edit: So the point is, we don't really need a pitbull right now. We've already won.

I guess all those inclined to do so are busy... reading Wikipedia, no doubt.