The "Obama in 2012" Campaign Starts Now

It looks like Obama is resigned to a GOP Congress for the last two years of his term, so he's focusing his attention and money on setting the plate for 2012.  From Time Magazine:

What happened to Barack Obama’s once vaunted political machine? The outfit that put upwards of 8 million volunteers on the street in 2008 — known as Organizing for America — is a ghost of its former self. Its staff has shrunk from 6,000 to 300, and its donors are depressed: receipts are a fraction of what they were in 2008. Virtually no one in politics believes it will turn many contests this fall. “There’s no chance that OFA is going to have the slightest impact on the midterms,” says Charlie Cook, who tracks congressional races…


So earlier this year, when the White House gave OFA a whopping $30 million — more than half of the party’s entire budget for 2010 — senior Democrats suspected a hidden agenda. Several tell Time that OFA boss David Plouffe, who ran Obama’s 2008 campaign, is using the cash to rebuild an army for 2012 under the cover of boosting turnout in 2010. OFA is putting staff into such states as Virginia, North Carolina and Arizona, which have few close statewide races this fall but which are all prime targets in an Obama re-election campaign. “This is totally about 2012,” Cook says.

Not terribly surprising. Obama has never really cared about anybody but himself so I'm sure most of his political efforts these days are focused on the campaign for 2012 and how to run against a GOP congress.

While he's at it he better start planning on how to run against Hillary because I still think she'll be a primary opponent.