Ya know, I’m sick of right-wingers telling the Democrats the lessons they should learn from the Massachusetts election.
And I’ll tell you why.
I got an email from MoveOn.org and it lays out the CORRECT strategy for the left:
The first step is to ignore the talking heads and pass a strong health care reform bill that would force big insurers to compete with a public health insurance option—even if that means they have to use the special reconciliation process to pass legislation without 60 votes in the Senate.
And then to win in November, Democrats need to show they’re serious about restarting the economy by creating millions of new jobs—and crack down on the Wall Street banks that got us into this mess with tough new rules to stop their predatory behavior.
Voters need to see Democrats fighting for them. It won’t be easy, and it will mean ignoring the corporate lobbyists who represent banks, insurance companies, and Big Oil. But that’s the point.
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Yeah, the Dems lost this round, but anyone who’s ever gambled knows that when you lose, the only way to get your money back is to double down. Again and again if necessary. For as long as it takes to get out of the hole.
And when you’re in a hole, you don’t stop digging, you just need to start digging UP.
Democrats need to keep pushing for health care. Get the bill passed. Say what they have to. Do what they have to. Forget ethics, laws, the Constitution – EVERYTHING! All that matters is this one big win. If they cut their losses, then they keep their losses, which makes them LOSERS!
The Democrat Party *I* know isn’t made up of losers. It’s made up of principled politicians who know what it takes to win for the people who vote for them.
And after health care, it’s time to push-push-PUSH for MoveOn.org’s 3-step economic plan:
1) Tax and regulate the crap out of big businesses like banks, insurance and oil.
2) ???
3) Millions of new jobs!
If the Democrats follow MoveOn.org’s advice, I guarantee that they will have done everything possible to ensure that, come November, the American people will send the right people to Congress.
Keep up the good work, my left-wing comrades.
Oh, and for heaven’s sake, get Obama to fire that linguini-spined Pillsbury Dough Boy press secretary and get someone with the courage of his convictions. Like Olbermann. The plan outlined above would work a lot better if Olbermann were given a lot more airtime to weave the delicate tapestry of his subtle, yet somehow lyrical, liguistic stylings:
“I wanted to apologize for calling Senator-elect Scott Brown an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against women, and against politicians with whom he disagrees. I am sorry. I left out the word ‘sexist’.”
With Keith as the face of the Democrat Party, elections would become so one-sided that it’d barely even be worth holding them, and I really think that’s worth fighting for.
Don’t you?
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Love the link to uberdouche. If anyone actually watched that idiot, I would say boycot the sponsors. But who knows what they are.
I agree entirely. Every time that I watch a clip of Olbermann, I think of Captain Queeg.
How dare you, Jim. Captain Philip F. Queeg served his country honorably and with distinction. Also, his crew called him “Old Yellowstain”. That’s a reference to a certain human bodily function. And Olbermann isn’t a human.
I believe that Harvey’s disgust for Democrats is unmeasurable, similar to this:
Kirk: “They’re animals!!”
Spock: “Jim, there is a historic opportunity here.”
Kirk: “DON’T BELIEVE THEM! DON’T TRUST THEM!”
Spock: “They are dying…”
Kirk: “LET THEM DIE!”
Olby doesn’t seem to think that violence against women is sexist. Wonder what he does think it is….?
“banks as predatory” ????
Please to ‘splain that one?
You mean Sen Dodd (D) and Friends FORCING banks to give loans to people who could not/would not pay them back, which led to the
Govttaxpayers bailing out said banks?Millions of new ‘jobs’:
Guarding prisons from inside the cells
lethal injection drug testers
tearing down housing projects while living in them
‘research’ into new forms of childhood issues requiring new drugs and SSI stimulus
millions of new printing jobs, money, welfare checks, 2000 page bills etc.
so many terrorists, so few lawyers
‘artists’ to decorate all those ugly undecorated walls in all those prissy clean cities.
neighborhood diversifers to bring culture to all those bitter white clinger areas
security guards to keep those pesky citizens from clogging up the emergency rooms
Teachers to make all those hateful English speakers learn the correct language(s)
Highway planners to determine which roads are in perfect condition so they can be repaved.
More highway planners to determine which bridges are falling down and how much money
can be spent repaving the roads leading up to them so the emergency people have a smooth
ride to the bridge collapse.
The possibilities are endless but of course we’ll need to document 20 million new workers since
10% of you lazy Americans don’t feel like working.
Harvey, you are on to something. Make every White house press breifing a Special Comment. Maybe Helen thomas can getvito an arguement with Obie.
Olbermann would make a wonderful press secretary for Obama. Capital idea. Much better than the passive/aggressive slob they have behind the microphone now. This would provide a lot more transparency into the actual thought process of the administration.
I am loving the spin from the progressives on strategy for next November:
“The people elected Brown because they are mad at Bush.”
“Coakley just wasn’t liberal enough.”
“Massachusetts is just full of racists, the rest of the country loves the progressive agenda.”
“The people just say they don’t want this shoved down their throats. Once they are our slaves, they will love it.”
“Let’s start on amnesty for illegals now. That was always a popular stance.”
It’s almost a perfect storm of self destruction.
If libs were able to aid in getting McCain as our crappy candidate in 2008, what do we have to do to get Olbermann on the ballot as the dem candidate in 2012? Perhaps Matthews or Maddow could be his running mate – either would offer the historic opportunity for the dems to claim the first openly-lesbian VP candidate in history.
I know, OT, but I just gotta post this url. The Pasadena Patriots did an over-the-top excellent mockumentary that you just gotta see. So go watch it, go-watch-it-ers. And if you don’t you’re worse than Hitler.
http://www.pasadenapatriots.com/page/frontman-who-pays-for-the
GO LEFT, YOUNG DEM, GO LEFT
Get them to rally to that and Olby as press secretary. Popcorn sales would skyrocket.
If Olbermann jumped out of pan and into the fire, he would cry like a second grade liberal after getting his ass kicked by a first grade conservative. His real problem is that liberalism doesn’t make sense.
im just spit balling but heres some help for team obama, The people say they don’t want this shoved down their throats, so re-name it baracks bukkake health care, and the tag line from team obama is we wont shove anything down your throats anymore america!
and oberman as press secretary is GENIUS!!
Hey Harv, uh, I mean, Bob Shrum, is that you?