tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45445638981531242762024-03-16T01:51:34.656-04:00Smooth Like RemyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2348125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-30418842285423763182010-12-25T01:23:00.003-05:002010-12-25T01:23:45.746-05:00Merry Christmas!!!<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0rUEpmbdZLw?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0rUEpmbdZLw?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-26538295479574809992010-12-08T00:28:00.002-05:002010-12-08T00:28:40.415-05:00Far AwayI love this damn song! Can't wait till Marsha Ambrosius album comes out in a few weeks.<br />
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And for my first post I'd like to introduce you to my friend the Honey Badger, baddest mufuka on the planet!!!<br />
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<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c81bcjyfn6U?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c81bcjyfn6U?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-4513835702610023112010-12-01T10:12:00.000-05:002010-12-01T10:12:59.899-05:00Like They Aren't Going To Filibuster AnywayI haven't posted anything in awhile because I am watching this lame duck session of Congress closely to see just what kind of courage Democrats have and if they are even worth supporting vigorously anymore. I hate the alternative but its hard as hell to keep promoting a party that continues to get its teeth kicked in and saying "thanks may I have another".<br />
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Well the first shot has been fired this morning as Senate Republicans en masse <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/dadt-no-more-republicans-plan-to-block-all-dem-initiatives.php?ref=fpa">threaten to filibuster</a> everything that doesn't pertain to tax cuts or funding the federal government. That means no votes on DADT repeal, unemployment, the START treaty etc.<br />
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But here's the rub, THEY ARE GOING TO DO THAT ANYWAY. I don't give a fuck if DADT repeal comes up first or last during this lame duck session the GOP is going to filibuster it. Same with unemployment benefits. Same with anything else the Democrats want.<br />
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So what is the upside of capitulating to their demands?<br />
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There literally is none.<br />
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The good thing is this will reveal very quickly whether Harry Reid and the rest of the Senate Dems have any balls or not. Either they go ahead and put everything they want to push through up for a vote, filibuster be damned. Or they hand over the keys of control to the GOP a little early and we get a taste of what the next two years will be like.<br />
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And honestly, if Democrats are dumb enough to fall for this bullshit I'll probably be shutting down this blog or at the least changing the direction of it. That, for me, will be the final straw.<br />
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It is what it is...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-34285126174744373612010-11-19T12:52:00.000-05:002010-11-19T12:52:27.090-05:00Gotta Let Ya Nuts Hang Sorry but this Rachel Maddow clip put me in a Geto Boys mindset. More of this please!!!<br />
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ALL available polling shows that <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/11/public_supports_letting_high_e.html">the American public supports this</a>. Not just kinda supports it. OVERWHELMINGLY supports it. And yet its the Republicans who are claiming to be the voice of America in pushing for a permanent tax cut for the wealthy.<br />
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All this and last year Republicans repeatedly pointed out polling on health care in the midst of the reform fight to portray Democrats as over reaching. Yet now Democrats are damn near mute and once again allowing the GOP the moral high ground on a topic that the public has their back on.<br />
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Who in the fuck is doing the political messaging and planning for Congressional Democrats?! Or for that matter the White House?<br />
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All of those sumbitches should be summarily fired.<br />
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Democrats should have referenced polling on tax cuts so much by now that whenever some Republican hack like Mike Pence opens his mouth to try to portray keeping tax cuts for the wealthy as something most Americans want, any body interviewing him not employed by FoxNews would have to ask him why the polling doens't back that up.<br />
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Instead he and the rest of his cronies are allowed to create this false impression of the mood of the country with little to no pushback.<br />
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I mean got damn man, seriously. If we can't win on this issue, an issue WE HAVE ALREADY WON, then fuck it, all is lost!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-63896429568431600412010-11-17T14:32:00.000-05:002010-11-17T14:32:46.067-05:00Learning The Wrong LessonThis will be brief.<br />
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President Obama has lamented since the GOP won back the House on November 2nd and made gains in the Senate that he believes the reason or part of the reason why Dems suffered so many defeats was because he had allowed Republicans to portray him as a tax and spend liberal in passing legislation to keep a terrible recession from becoming a full blown depression as well as health care reform. While its true that the messaging coming from the White House and Congressional Democrats was on the whole an epic fail I think to blame it all or even mostly on that is erroneous. And I think part of the problem is that President Obama and other Dems really believe people give a shit about whether he or they are a "tax and spend" liberal.<br />
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Here is what I see as the truth, had Congress passed and President Obama signed a much bigger stimulus there would have been an uproar momentarily but as the unemployment rate came down so would have people's anxiety levels. If going into this past November unemployment was down to something at least sellable like say 7% Americans would have voted for all those dirty fucking tax and spend liberals in record droves.<br />
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One thing about good policy is its hard to hide its positive outcomes. Republicans can, do, and will continue to kick Democrats' asses in messaging. Its just something they do better. But a slogan or a bumper sticker only lasts for a moment, results on the other hand stick. If Democrats ever figure out that as long as their legislation actually works then no amount of messaging will hurt them, then they will never have another problem when it comes to election season. But as long as they continue to buy into the GOP messaging themselves and fear being portrayed as something most Americans couldn't give a fuck about as long as times are good, they will continue to pass half ass measures and ultimately get punished for it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-68134921855434309652010-11-16T19:15:00.000-05:002010-11-16T19:15:21.276-05:00Fake Nostalgia For Bill Clinton<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="353" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font: 11px arial; width: 360px;"><tbody>
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Crist Had Promised to Caucus with Republicans</a><br />
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LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO<br />
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I can't wait for all the Dems who backed that clown to try to talk their way out of this!<br />
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Fuckin idjutsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-42109744172585588652010-11-05T14:36:00.001-04:002010-11-05T14:36:00.036-04:00How The Lying Right Wing Echo Chamber Works<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yBxzMMCokpI?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yBxzMMCokpI?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-60955208865877079542010-11-05T10:45:00.000-04:002010-11-05T10:45:44.321-04:00Evidently Some People Still Don't Get ItI'll admit that I haven't been in a mood to blog lately. After all the bullshit that went down with Kendrick Meek and the blood bath Democrats in Florida rightly suffered on Tuesday I just don't have a whole lot to say. It didn't have to be this way but at this point the damage is done.<br />
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But I have to say what has been most infuriating to me the last couple of days is the spin I keep seeing from some Democrats and Liberals/Progressives in response to losing the House on election day and having the lead in the Senate whittled down to 53 seats. I keep seeing people talk about how "hard" its going to be for the Republicans now that they have to govern and the "trouble" John Boehner is going to have trying to keep his caucus together.<br />
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Folks, I have to ask, what in the fuck are you smoking?!<br />
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The next couple of years are going to look like this. John Boehner brings up crazy ass bills gutting social programs in the name of "fiscal responsibility". His caucus will pass such bills just to send it to the Senate and make all the ConservaDems uncomfortable. To block the bills the Democrats will have to have 40 Senators, fresh off Tuesday's ass kicking, who are willing to filibuster them. And all the while the GOP will once again dominate the messaging wars painting them as unAmerican for opposing the bills. The media will eat that shit up and suddenly recognize how ridiculous our filibuster rules are and paint Democrats as obstructionists as they never did the last two years when Republicans were breaking records for filibusters.<br />
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And here's the thing, if we all keep waiting on Republicans to implode like most of us have the last two years instead of actually going out and SUPPORTING our candidates WE will be the ones on the outside looking in after 2012. <br />
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At some point a lot of the folks on our side had better figure out that sitting on our asses and writing blog posts will not be enough to change where the country is headed. The crazy thing is you would think folks would get that now that the country has elected a bunch of ignorant as Tea Baggers to represent them rather than their "sensible" Democratic opponents, but it seems like our side is still stuck in this bubble where they really believe that Dems will win simply because they have the better policies.<br />
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Unless and until we learn how to fight these fear mongerers with better messaging and better strategies we are going to keep losing until both the White House and both houses of Congress are lead by Wingnuts. I hope sometime before now and 2012 people wake up to that realization because if not our country is going to be in a world of fucking trouble.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-38541521624727862792010-10-29T09:03:00.000-04:002010-10-29T09:03:07.046-04:00KarmaAs crazy as it sounds I'm loving this story about the White House and Bill Clinton trying to get Kendrick Meek to drop out of the race at the behest of Charlie Crist.<br />
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Why you ask?<br />
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Because it was obvioiusly leaked by and afterwards pushed by Charlie Crist himself. <br />
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See when you start playing with footsie with a RAT like Crist this is the kind of shit that happens. I love that folks now see just how royally the White House and national Democrats have fucked up the race down here and that they all now have a lot of egg on their face. I love that up until Tuesday and maybe even after they will have to answer uncomfortable questions about it. <br />
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Kendrick Meek deserved a hell of a lot better and people like me will not forget.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-83745481690303808702010-10-28T11:59:00.002-04:002010-10-28T11:59:55.821-04:00Keith's Special Comment<object width="420" height="245" id="msnbc379261" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0"><param name="movie" value="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" /><param name="FlashVars" value="launch=39880604&width=420&height=245" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed name="msnbc379261" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" width="420" height="245" FlashVars="launch=39880604&width=420&height=245" allowscriptaccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-79722593426409556062010-10-28T10:21:00.000-04:002010-10-28T10:21:36.438-04:00POTUS On The Daily Show<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="353" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font: 11px arial; width: 360px;"><tbody>
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This was in my opinion a great interview. Jon Stewart pressed President Obama on issues from the left and he didn't ask any softball questions. I thought President Obama knocked the interview out of the park though and my favorite part was when he leaned in like he was about to whup some ass over that "timid" comment lolUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-34164938937145051502010-10-27T10:31:00.000-04:002010-10-27T10:31:15.585-04:00Pretty WeakThe DNC has taken some initiative and made a web ad about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's comment that the single most important thing for Republicans to accomplish if thy take the Senate is to insure that President Obama is a one term president. Here it is.<br />
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I like that they are contiuing to highlight the comment but the approach seems to be exactly wrong.<br />
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Why in hell are all of the people in the ad smiling? The point should have been that people are fucking hurting and suffering right now and the Republicans only give a shit about making sure President Obama isn't reelected.<br />
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Imagine for a moment the ad showed people standing in the unemployment line to make the jobs point, someone at their desk with a pile of bills in front of them to make the tax relief point, gas prices going up to make the energy point, A parent with a kid who looks sick with a thermometer and the whole nine to make the health care point and played somber music through out. And then at the end played villainous music when they get to the picture of Mitch McConnell and the statement he made. Hell even better if you could find a picture of McConnell laughing or smiling or just enjoying himself.<br />
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Imagine how much harder that would hit people in the gut when they watched it.<br />
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To be honest watching this video didn't move me at all. But hey, maybe I'm not the demographic they are going after.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-32509675813531867532010-10-27T09:34:00.000-04:002010-10-27T09:34:02.609-04:00If Nothing Else He's Consistent<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="353" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font: 11px arial; width: 360px;"><tbody>
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What Stewart did to McCain in this clip.....<br />
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lolUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-22065732147358841792010-10-21T14:31:00.000-04:002010-10-21T14:31:53.232-04:00So Let Me Get This Straight....Shirley Sherrod saying she came to overcome her biases against white people is EXACTLY like Juan Williams saying he sees anyone in an airport dressed like a muslim as a potential terrorist.<br />
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Oooooo Kkkkkkkk<br />
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Gotta love conservative logicUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-91239674889169598332010-10-20T10:50:00.000-04:002010-10-20T10:50:10.437-04:00I Should Play The Lottery<blockquote><div style="color: #666666;"><b>The parties share blame for the current fiscal situation, but <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/federal_budget_us/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival news about the federal budget.">federal budget</a> statistics show that Republican policies over the last decade, and the cost of the two wars, added far more to the deficit than initiatives approved by the Democratic Congress since 2006, giving voters reason to be skeptical of campaign promises. </b></div><div style="color: #666666;"><b><br />
</b></div><b><span style="color: #666666;">Calculations by the nonpartisan </span><a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/congressional_budget_office/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #666666;" title="More articles about Congressional Budget Office, U.S.">Congressional Budget Office</a><span style="color: #666666;"> and other independent fiscal experts show that the $1.1 trillion cost over the next 10 years of the </span><a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicare/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #666666;" title="Recent and archival health news about Medicare.">Medicare</a> prescription drug program, which the Republican-controlled Congress adopted in 2003, by itself would add more to the deficit than the combined costs of the bailout, the stimulus and the health care law. </b></blockquote><br />
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Just the other day I was saying Democrats should contrast the Medicare Benefit Republicans passed with their health care reform. I should be doing this for a living lolUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-16748826887024806422010-10-20T10:27:00.000-04:002010-10-20T10:27:24.392-04:00MMF, Making Money Fast<blockquote style="color: #666666;"><b>The U.S. government’s bailout of financial firms through the Troubled Asset Relief Program provided taxpayers with higher returns than they could have made buying 30-year Treasury bonds -- enough money to fund the Securities and Exchange Commission for the next two decades.</b><br />
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<b>The government has earned $25.2 billion on its investment of $309 billion in banks and insurance companies, an 8.2 percent return over two years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That beat U.S. Treasuries, high-yield savings accounts, money- market funds and certificates of deposit. Investing in the stock market or gold would have paid off better.</b><br />
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<b>When the government first announced its intention to plow funds into the nation’s banks in October 2008 to resuscitate the financial system, many expected it to lose hundreds of billions of dollars. Two years later TARP’s bank and insurance investments have made money, and about two-thirds of the funds have been paid back. Yet Democrats are struggling to turn those gains into political capital, and the indirect costs of propping up banks could have longer-term consequences for the economy.</b><br />
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<b>“From the perspective of the taxpayers getting their money back, TARP has been a great success,” said Todd Petzel, chief investment officer at New York-based Offit Capital Advisors LLC, which has more than $5 billion of assets under management. “But there are other costs as the government made it possible for the banks to pay back TARP. Those costs can turn out to be larger, and their legacy could last longer.” </b></blockquote><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-20/bailout-of-wall-street-returns-8-2-profit-to-taxpayers-beating-treasuries.html"><br />
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I know its late in the game but this pretty much proves my point about why Democrats should have been running away from TARP (as well as other accomplishments) instead of away from it. Most people don't even know that TARP didn't cost a gazillion dollars but instead came in at $309 billion. And it WORKED! We still have a viable banking system, the stock market didn't implode, and now to top it off the government is pulling in 8.2% in profit.<br />
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Unfortunately most Democrats bought into the media narrative and some polling and instead of explaining to voters what actually happened just tried to avoid the topic all together. Now with two weeks out its hard to say this is a game changer but there IS still a chance to get out there and beat the drum that TARP worked, their vote or their support for it was warrated, and Republicans had and have NO alternative that would have saved our banking system.<br />
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It will be interesting to see if any Democrat has the ball to point this out in the next two weeks. One thing is for sure in my mind, they all SHOULD!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-59554704106677970402010-10-19T19:21:00.000-04:002010-10-19T19:21:36.529-04:00Two Devastating Attack Ads....From Democrats!<object width="640" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LIYad3TvY6Q&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LIYad3TvY6Q&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></embed></object><br />
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Somebody is learning....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-4846987434905882412010-10-16T20:53:00.001-04:002010-10-16T20:54:41.795-04:00Simple Logic = Simple AttacksThis is a point that is easily made but rarely heard.<br />
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If:<br />
<blockquote style="color: #666666;"><b>Right now the number one priority is jobs.</b></blockquote><br />
And:<br />
<blockquote style="color: #666666;"><b>Republicans don't believe that government can do anything to create jobs.</b></blockquote><br />
Then:<br />
<blockquote style="color: #666666;"><b>Why would you want Republicans in charge right now?</b></blockquote><br />
This works on so many levels its not funny. And yelling "Tax Cuts" doesn't diminish this attack. Its just stupid that no Democrat has been willing to defend the government's capacity to both directly create jobs and provide conditions that are more conducive to creating job growth.<br />
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So scared of their shadow that they have no clue what resonates with regular people....and what doesn't.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-43348142442117879972010-10-14T10:08:00.000-04:002010-10-14T10:08:50.708-04:00Ads Like This OneI swear I hadn't even see this ad from Scott Murphy before my last post but it should be somewhat of a blue print for ALL Democrats this cycle who aren't in very red districts.<br />
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The only improvement in my opinion would be linking his opponent to the full GOP caucus. Some folks will see this ad and think "Well Chris Gibson can't do that much damage". But if the point is made that the ENTIRE GOP caucus is calling for this and if they take over because Gibson is voted in then it can happen its much more of a motivation for people to not only not vote for him but also to get to the polls and help Scott Murphy and the Democrats keep repeal from happening. <br />
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Still the ad is strong and I bet in the end it will be effective for one major reason. Now Gibson can't just demonize the health care bill. NOW Gibson has to explain why he wants to take all those things from the voters in his district.<br />
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Yeah, good luck with that!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-80885087163533310362010-10-14T09:33:00.001-04:002010-10-14T09:52:12.716-04:00Home Stretch Campaign IdeasI'll admit it, Im bored as hell. I'm also concerned watching the polls and watching people run some pretty inept campaigns against Republicans who should be pretty easy to attack. So I decided to do a kind of stream of consciousness post about some ideas floating around my head that maybe could help if anybody would actually listen/read.<br />
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First off lets all acknowledge that the GOP by in large runs circles around the Democrats when it comes to ads. I think part of it is that Democrats simply don't believe they can win with ads that strike the same kind of tones that Republicans use. It doesn't make sense since they continue to lose to those same Republicans but never the less it does appear to be a fact.<br />
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Another factor seems to be the "we're above that" mindset. I have this mentality. I care about integrity and character in governance, but in campaigning its "by any means necessary". I personally don't do moral victories. If on November 2nd you have less votes than the Republican once against you then you have failed plain and simple.<br />
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And then there are some people who are simply still using campaign advisors from the 90s and thus running Dem campaigns from the 90s. Don't know how many people noticed but Dems didn't do so hot during the 90s when it came to campaigning.<br />
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So some of these suggestions will be a sort of "if you can't beat them, join them" type situation. Others will be simple but effective contrasts that not many people are using.<br />
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First off its time to play offense. Fuck any attacks on you personally or policy wise. Don't even acknowledge them. If anything use every attack on you to turn back and attack your opponent. Right now not many Dems are running on health care reform which is stupid for several reasons. Here is maybe the most important, there are provisions in health care reform that people LOVE. You look at any polling on the issue and yes the numbers are still leaning in favor of the folks who don't like health care reform in general, but whenever different aspects of health care reform are polled people tend to like them quite a bit. <br />
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So how do you use that to your advantage? Well you use the old GOP trick of "X voted against tax cuts Y many times". You take the most popular parts of reform and you say "(insert GOP candidate's name here) says they would have (or did) voted against banning health insurance companies from denying coverage because of preexisting conditions, say they would have voted against ending lifetime caps on insurance coverage, says they would have voted against allowing kids to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26" and so on and so forth. <br />
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Right now there are high risk pools set up already in a lot of states because of health care reform. Im pretty sure there are numbers available of how many voters have signed up to get insured under those pools. Use those numbers to talk about how your GOP opponent would have or did vote against those folks getting coverage. <br />
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And you can use this approach to just about any piece of legislation that passed during the first two years of President Obama's term. With financial regulation reform you can say they voted or would have voted against protections for consumers. With the credit card bill you can say they voted or would have voted against unjustified interest rate increases. If you live in a state where a large part of your constituency cares about the environment you can say they voted oagainst curbing emissions standards. <br />
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And so on and so forth.<br />
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This puts them in some what of a pickle because now they have to defend those votes or hypothetical votes lest they lose their base. And bigger than that, THEY are stuck having to explain the legislation rather than the Dem candidate having to do so.<br />
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Another idea to steal is the demonizing of leaders. We have heard "Reid/Obama/Pelosi" so many times in the last three years that its like elevator music at this point. But the GOP has some pretty scary characters like Jim Demint and James Inhoffe and John Boehner too. Better yet the fact that they have been all voting en masse on all this legislation makes it MUCH easier to define GOP candidates as potential puppets.<br />
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The best part is you can show that any Republican who dared step out of line and vote for something the rest of the caucus voted against, even stuff that their constituents supported, got primaried and usually defeated. There are numerous examples of Republicans with solid conservative voting records who got voted out for just this kind of thing. And it didn't take a bunch of votes, it only usually took one or two like TARP. So the message is that if you vote for this person you aren't voting for your self interest, you are voting for another reliable Republican vote. And you can ask them which votes they would have crossed the aisle on.<br />
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Trust me, there wont be any. And the added bonus is the media has to cover those kinds of questions. <br />
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Speaking of TARP, I know the conventional wisdom is its so toxic that Dems cant use it at all in campaigning but I disagree at least on one substantial point. Senators and Representatives are sent to Washington not for the easy votes but the hard ones. And while voters may be mad about TARP its pretty apparent that it worked. So the appropriate attack is "What would you have done?" Republicans have no answer for this question. Unfortunately Democrats have run from the issue so fast that they can't capitalize on it.<br />
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So I'm saying talk about TARP, acknowledge it was unpopular, but also acknowledge it worked. And then ask your opponent either in an ad or a debate what they would have done to preserve the banking system? How would they have protected people's retirements? How would they have kept people from losing everything since they would have voted no or did vote no against TARP?<br />
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Remember, they key is to not get distracted by defending your own vote or hypothetical vote. The key is to stay on the attack at all times and keep coming back to "Ok, what would you have done?" The voters deserve to know after all.<br />
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And then you have all these contrasts to be played up, one in particular that would appeal to seniors is so obvious as to be ridiculous that it isn't being used more.<br />
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When Republicans held Congress and the Presidency they passed the Medicare Drug Benefit bill which created the donut hole which has been a nightmare for seniors. When Dems had the same they passed the health care reform bill which closes the donut hole and in the mean time sends out checks to help seniors afford their medications. Its really simple. Do you want people who create problems or the people who fix them?<br />
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And you can do this with all manner of legislation. Dems want to pass the Dream Act to address immigration, Republicans want to pass "papers please" laws like Arizona. Republicans literally have already tried to privatize Social Security while Dems want to preserve it. And the list goes on and on. <br />
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The records are obvious and Republicans have not changed their stances on any of this stuff. Again, make THEM answer the hard questions while you keep firing them off.<br />
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And then there is the Tea Party.<br />
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Here is the easiest way to deal with "Tea Party" candidates. Take the most extreme, scariest stances of the Tea Party and hang your opponent with them. Guys like Marco Rubio have to answer for the Tea Party when they want to repeal the 17th amendment taking away voters right to vote in their Senators. Every single crazy idea that the Tea Partiers have ever advocated should now be tattooed to every GOP candidate claiming their mantle. If they disagree with the Tea Party let THEM say so and then watch the fall out. If they say they want a balanced budget amendment then ask where they specifically will cut spending to balance the budget and what the federal government should do in catastrophic events like Katrina or if a state is about to shut down its public services because of budget shortfalls. Do they want police officers taken off the streets? Maybe no fire fighters either?<br />
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Make THEM answer for it.<br />
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Oh and finally because they are going to be voting in lockstep use Paul Ryan's road map to once again put Republicans on the defensive. Right now it appears to implement his plan, which happens to be the ONLY Republican plan floating around, would mean about a 23% budget cut to stuff like education and cancer research. Are GOP candidates willing to cut that much from those areas? Well there is one way to find out.<br />
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ASK THEM!<br />
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These last 15 days or so should be all about attack attack attack. Not personal attacks because most of them aren't really effective. The best attacks in my opinion are the ones where the candidate can not answer or can't give a good answer to what they have done or what they will do. I know many will avoid the press like the plague this last half a month trying to ride out the storm with as little opportunity to make gaffes as possible. Well that's good, it gives Democrats more room to just keep throwing out statements and questions about them that will go unanswered and create uneasiness with the electorate. And as long as its grounded in something real like actual legislation and or issues important to their district or state then it WILL resonate with voters. Hell right now Marco Rubio should be having to answer every day why he supports deep water drilling off the coast of Florida but honestly Kendrick Meek while talking up his own bona fides on the environment hasn't done enough to push the media to question Rubio on the issue. Hell every ad should be from here on out should be focused on hitting him on some far right stance he himself has taken personally or that his caucus has taken in the last two years. Does he believe climate change is man made? Hell lets find out!<br />
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President Obama kind of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/magazine/17obama-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine">fucked the message up</a> yesterday by saying he thinks Republicans will cooperate with him after the midterms. No way to unring that bell so just ignore it. Instead the focus should be scaring voters into believing (probably truthfully) that a vote for any Republican this year is a vote against getting anything done. Its a vote for going back to all the fuckups they had before Dems took over. Its a vote for another puppet that will never vote against their own caucus even when the issue directly affects their constituents back home.<br />
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Its a vote for another DeMint puppet. <br />
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A few weeks out the prospects for Dems holding the house look pretty bleak and the hold on the Senate looks to be weaker. There's really only one thing to do this point and that is radically change the focus of these elections. The only folks who can do this are the individual Dems running and their campaign folks. If these elections about what Dems have done over the last two years solely then we probably lose. If the elections are however about what Republicans have done and will do going forward then the bleeding won't be that bad.<br />
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That's where we are at and I hope some of these Democrats start to realize that.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544563898153124276.post-53612765796173982292010-10-13T12:42:00.000-04:002010-10-13T12:42:58.591-04:00As Usual Hit Dogs Holler<object width="420" height="245" id="msnbc8e90" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0"><param name="movie" value="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" /><param name="FlashVars" value="launch=39642627&width=420&height=245" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed name="msnbc8e90" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" width="420" height="245" FlashVars="launch=39642627&width=420&height=245" allowscriptaccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><br />
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If Dems don't ride this issue all the way to election day, they are fucking crazy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0