Valerie Jarrett Wants a Pity Party for Obama

Charlie Spiering at The Washington Examiner:

“He’s getting absolutely no sleep. He’s working tirelessly, meeting with his economic team, doing a lot of outreach, exploring all kinds of possibilities for compromise,” Jarrett said.

Chief of Staff William Daley told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer last night that Obama has issued a secret plan for solving the debt crisis.

I don’t want a compromise. This is not an issue of compromise. Why can’t Obama look at the situation and evaluate what he thinks is the right thing to do? Put a stake in the ground and say “This is the plan. This is the right thing to do.” Then everyone else can either rally around it or against it. The administration has yet to put forth an actual plan that can be scored. Just a couple of loose ideas.

From the transcript:

BLITZER: So what you’re saying is the president did present a plan to the speaker, John Boehner.

DALEY: Yes.

BLITZER: But – but he didn’t…

DALEY: Right.

BLITZER: – make it public.

DALEY: No, because there’s… both the speaker and – and the president had agreed and – that these sort of negotiations do not happen in public.

Translation: Obama can’t make it public because it will get ripped to shreds.