A Desperate Obama Flight Forward on TAA Vote

According to a senior Washington, D.C. source, President Obama and his top White House aides spent the weekend contemplating their next move, after Congressional Democrats slaughtered the President on his free trade agenda, by voting down the Trade Adjustment Authority (TAA) by a bipartisan 90 vote majority.  Obama, who, in the words of Lyndon LaRouche, is behaving like a “suicide bomber” personality, in plunging forward, refusing to accept defeat, has been presented with two options, both of which are losers.  He can modify the TAA to satisfy all Republican demands, effectively wiping out any workers benefits, and go for a strictly partisan victory, with almost exclusively GOP votes; or he can rewrite the TAA to satisfy angry Democrats and risk consolidating Republican opposition.  Either way, the source acknowledged, the chances of winning over enough votes to pass the modified bill are slim.

Furthermore, the source emphasized, if Obama goes with the GOP-only option, this will finish off any cooperation from Congressional Democrats, who are already in revolt—at long last—against a President who has acted like a Wall Street Republican from the day he took office.  Every Democratic Presidential candidate—even Hillary Clinton—would run away from Obama as fast as possible.

Nevertheless, as LaRouche warned, Obama is in such an enraged, crazed state of mind that he can be expected to make serious blunders.  The same danger of manic, deranged flight forward by Obama is also visible on the issue of thermonuclear confrontation with Russia and China—and that is where the real danger lies.  LaRouche emphasized that, with Obama, these psychological factors cannot be ignored.