Dems to Obama: Stop Bashing DC!

Obama is in permanent campaign mode, and a key part of that campaign is bashing the status quo in Washington D.C.   Problem is it's his party that is running the place:

President Barack Obama’s Washington-bashing could boomerang on his party in Congress if he’s not careful, House Democratic leaders have warned White House senior adviser David Axelrod.

The fear — raised by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, campaign chief Chris Van Hollen and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn in a closed-door meeting Thursday — is that Democrats have more to lose if anti-Washington sentiment is not directed at one party or the other.

“If the president is going to go out and talk about how Washington’s broken, he’s got to include a strong contrast with congressional Republicans, or else we’re going to get blamed for it,” one meeting participant said later.

But Axelrod gave no indication that he plans to alter the president’s course, sources told POLITICO. White House aides did not reply to requests for comment.

The Dems are talking to the wrong guy. They need to speak to whoever is programming Obama's teleprompter. Unless the new message shows up there, nothing will change.

This isn't about 2010 at all, it's all about 2012. As I mentioned above Obama is in permanent campaign mode, and it's not a campaign to get Democrats elected in 2010, it's a campaign to get himself re-elected in 2012. He clearly feels that bashing Washington is still a winning approach for him.