FOCUS ON THE WHITE HOUSE – AT 8:55 A.M. ET:  What will President Obama do tomorrow morning, if the dire predictions about today come true?  Fox News reports:

Some high-level Democrats are calling for President Barack Obama to remake his inner circle or even fire top advisers in response to what many party strategists expect to be a decisive defeat on Tuesday.

Tensions have come to the surface after meetings over the past few weeks in which Obama senior adviser David Axelrod discussed communications strategy with senior Democratic strategists and party officials. Some Democrats were so unhappy with the White House meetings, they started their own.

The strategy sessions aired a range of disagreements over how to help Democrats forestall an electoral drubbing at the polls—a defeat party strategists believe could have been minimized with a different White House playbook.

Among the complaints: Obama conveyed an incoherent message that didn't express what Democrats would do over the next two years if they retain power; he focused more on his own image than helping Democratic candidates; and the White House picked the wrong battle when it attacked Republicans for using "outside" money to pay for campaigns, an issue disconnected from voters' real-world anxieties.

The latest strategy session took place Monday afternoon.

COMMENT:  Yeah.  I like the one about Obama focusing more on his own image than helping his fellow Dems.  What else is new?  The guy has an ego that can fill a barn. 

There are going to be a lot more strategy sessions.  You can be sure that the people in the White House are, today, thinking back to election day two years ago and wondering where it all went wrong.  And they'll be remembering the famous plaque on President Truman's Oval Office desk:  "The buck stops here." 

Yes it does.  Yes it does.  And every president, save the one in power right now, came to realize that.

November 2, 2010