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No, it doesn't quite fit, but you try to pass up describing a political head-to-head bout involving somebody named Boxer without trying to cram it into some sort of pugilistic pun.

According to Gabe Malor's recap, the fifteen-rounder between the California Madame and Carly Fiorina was not so much a draw as a feeling-out encounter.  Boxer basically didn't have anything to say, and was left with a choice of taking shots at Fiorina's Hewlett-Packard CEO tenure or offering a defiantly autistic defense of the self-same Obama agenda the even large pluralities of Golden staters loathe.  True to her leadership skills, she did both, and badly.

Fiorina confirmed her spottiness on pretty much every non-economic issue other than abortion, where she took a surprising federalist stance.  But we've been over this one before - no "true conservative" can win statewide in California, as even Sarah Palin recognized when she backed Fiornia.  She's the best we're going to do there, and that best would be a stupendous improvement over the status quo.

Evidently Carly's problem was the same one President Reagan suffered from in the first 1984 debate with Walter Mondale: overpreparation.  Dutch had all sorts of facts and figures and stats at his command, but in the process of regurgitating them the big picture forest got lost in the arborial shuffle, and he emerged the consensus loser.  He was even shivved as having looked and sounded "old".  What was the needed remedy?  To "let Reagan be Reagan".  To get back to the big picture that had gotten him to the crushing lead he already enjoyed, and for which Mondale had no answer.

For Fiorina, the big picture message was, "You want jobs to come back to California? Cut taxes, cut regulation".  But after mentioning it as a preface, she never really got back to it, getting bogged down in all that preparation.  Unlike the Gipper, though, Carly is the challenger, and thus it was more important for her to hammer away on that central message whenever possible.

It's the difference between a "formal" (i.e. high school team) debate scored and graded technically on points and a combined press conference.  Modern political campaign debates are the latter, not the former, and mistaking the two gets you these missed opportunities.  Again, for the challenger these are invaluable opportunities to not just contrast yourself with the incumbent but speak directly to the voters with your core message.  Over and over and over.  Be repetitive.  Pound it, and your opponent, into the ground, and into the voter's individual and collective consciousness.  And if Babsy makes a boo-boo, so much the better.

Tonight, Carly Fiorina didn't get the job done.  But at least Senator M'am threw her a mulligan:

 It appears that her recollection of that conversation with Condi Rice has diverged dramatically over the past three years from the one that actually transpired:

Now I am the last person on the planet to cut Barbara F'ing Boxer any slack at all, but I do have some direct experience with trying to remember the details of conversations from years in the past, and I can "testify" to the way that memories can get "seasoned" as they settle into your engram neurons in the marinade of subsequent and related events.  You're certain you said this and they said that, and then you see the transcript and you said that and they said this.  And when you're under oath, certitude is at a premium, and equally as hard to come by.

Two differences in the Madame's case, though:

(1) Her memory divergence is a lot wider than just the particular choices of words; it's about as different an exchange as she and the SecState could have had and still have been discussing the same topic.   I don't have any trouble seeing what happened in that windy, cobwebby belfry that suffices for her mind: the actual encounter with Secretary Rice was an embarrassment, so she just made up a different one in which Condi pissed herself instead.  Psychological problem solved, mammoth ego assuaged.

(2) She's a United frakking States frakking Senator with more staffers than I've got fat cells.  If she wants a transcript of that 2007 Foreign Relations Committee hearing to be updated and prepared for this S.F. Chronicle editorial board meeting, it oughtn't have been to difficult for her to order up and skim through.F

Or perhaps, to Ensign Ed's point, she did, and decided she liked her "reimagined" version better and is stubbornly sticking with it.

So I guess Boxer can spend the next few weeks re-fighting Roe v. Wade yet again, while Fiorina can poll California voters on whether they think their senior senator is (1) a pathetic liar or (2) a demented, emotionally "wobbly" [heh] crone.

Should make the next debate...fascinating.  

MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT

LABOR DAY 2010:

Excessive influence of BIG LABOR on Obama administration and Congress has been disastrous for American workers and the Nation's economy

RE: The tremendous amount of power & influence that officials of organized labor have over this administration & congress is adding to the growth of government and makes no sense given that only 7% of the private sector workforce and 12% of the overall workforce are members of a labor union. Last year, for the first time in history, the majority of union members in the country were working for the government-not the private sector. The Obama administration & Congress' decision making disregards the 93% of the private sector workforce in order to payback Big Labor bosses for previous campaign support-much coming from the dues money collected from workers who are subject to compulsory unionism.

"We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama--$60.7 million to be exact and we're proud of it."

Andrew Stern, former President, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

ISSUE-IN-BRIEF: As Americans prepare to observe Labor Day, the nation's unemployment rate continues to remain at record high levels and the federal deficit continues to grow and place a long term burden on every American taxpayer. The Obama administration and Congress have handed out one favor after another in special interest favors to union officials without regard to the public policy ramifications. For example:

· Ten days after being sworn in President Obama issued 3 Executive Orders that curtail federal contractor's free speech during union organizing drives, provide job security for employees of federal service contractors, and require federal contractors to notify employees of their right to join a union.

· One week later President Obama signed another Executive Order announcing a government preference for Project Labor Agreements (PLA's) on all federally funded large-scale construction projects. As a result of this, many projects financed by the so-called "economic stimulus bill" are subject to PLA's and performed by unionized workers.

· The Obama Department of Labor rolled back several rules issued during the Bush administration to increase union transparency on forms required to be filed with the government as required under the Labor Management Reporting Disclosure Act.

· The Obama Treasury Department forced financially troubled General Motors and Chrysler into bankruptcy and swinging a deal granting the United Auto Workers respectively 17.5% and 55% stakes in GM and Chrysler.

Gallup found for the first time since it began asking the question in 1997 that a majority of Americans now think "unions mostly hurt the economy."

· According to official records, the person who most often visited the White House in 2009 was Andy Stern, then President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-a union that had given more than $4 million since 2006 to scandal ridden ACORN and its affiliates

· An overwhelming majority of congressional democrats co-sponsored "card-check" legislation designed to deny workers a secret ballot election to determine if a union would represent them.

· The Obama administration and Congress reduced funding to the Department of Labor's Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS)-which is the only agency in the entire federal government assigned the responsibility for oversight of organized labor.

· President Obama circumvented the Senate-that had objections to NLRB nominee Craig Becker-and recess appointed him as chairman. Becker had previously worked for both the AFL-CIO and the SEIU.

· Some in Congress are now proposing a $165 billion union pension bailout. As FOX Business Network reported, these pensions are in bad shape; as of 2006, well before the stock market dropped and recession began, only 6% of these union pension funds were doing well.

Gallup recently found for the first time in more than eighty years of asking the question that only a minority of Americans now "approve of labor unions."

Conservative Action Project

William Wilson, President, Americans for Limited Government

Virginia Thomas, President, Liberty Central

Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council

Tom Schatz, President, Council for Citizens Against Government Waste

Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform

Duane Parde, President, National Taxpayers Union

Wendy Wright, President, Concerned Women for America

Edwin Meese, former Attorney General

David N. Bossie, President, Citizens United

Ken Boehm, Chairman, National Legal & Policy Center

Tom Winter, Editor-in-Chief, Human Events

Karen Kerrigan, President, Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council

Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring

Ron Robinson, President, Young America's Foundation

Andrea Lafferty, Executive Director, Traditional Values Coalition

Mario H. Lopez, President, Hispanic Leadership Fund

Dr. Herbert London, President, Hudson Institute

David McIntosh, former Member of Congress, Indiana

Donna Hearne, Executive Director, Constitutional Coalition

Gary Bauer, President, American Values

Herman Cain, President, The NEW Voice, Inc.

Susan Carleson, Chairman & CEO, American Civil Rights Union

J. Kenneth Blackwell, former Treasurer, State of Ohio

Becky Norton Dunlop, President, Council for National Policy

James Martin, Chairman, 60 Plus Association

Myron Ebell, President, Freedom Action

Mathew D. Staver, Founder & Chairman, Liberty Counsel

Michelle Easton, President, Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute

Phil Burress, President, Citizens for Community Values

Alfred Regnery, Publisher, American Spectator

David Y. Denholm, President, Public Service Research Foundation

Richard Viguerie, Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com

Jordan Marks, Executive Director, Young Americans for Freedom

Bob McEwen, former Member of Congress, Ohio

Rev. Lou Sheldon, Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition

Marion Edwyn Harrison, Past President, Free Congress Foundation

(All organizations listed are for identification purposes only)

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON ORGANIZED LABOR AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & CONGRESS PLEASE VISIT THESE WEBSITES:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/122744/Labor-Unions-Sharp-Slide-Public-Support.aspx

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6290/obamaafl-cio_lovefest_once_again_labor_hopes_president_will_prove_loya/

http://union-yes.blogspot.com/2008/05/barack-obama-in-organized-labors-pocket.html

http://www.unionfacts.com/

http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB124227027965718333.html

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/congress-pushing-165-billion-union-pension-bailout-94828874.html

http://www.faegre.com/showarticle.aspx?Show=8938

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/1/30/143556/925

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20090130_obama_gives_labor_unions_a_boost/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/31/obama-supports-union-organizing/

http://www.nlpc.org/stories/2010/01/13/top-ten-union-corruption-stories-year

http://biggovernment.com/rmanning/2010/01/20/transforming-the-u-s-department-of-labor-to-the-department-of-organized-labor/

http://www.nlpc.org/stories/2009/04/30/labor-department-rescinds-revised-lm-2-and-lm-30-rules-invites-potential-corrupti

http://www.dwt.com/LearningCenter/Advisories?find=65354

http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052702303491304575188263180553530.html

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/244369/cops-and-robbers-daniel-foster

“I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES OR DICK ARMEY AND NEWT GINGRICH- and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS,” Cusack tweeted.

You know what I'm gonna say. Imagine if, say, Jon Voight called for the deaths of NBC News and Pelosi? Why, the hate police would be ALL OVER IT. But this? I daresay it will get no mention on the major networks.

JASmius adds: Sorry, Jen, but imperiled House Blue Dogs have already beat you to it.

He said it.  For over a year he said it.  "If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it."  Which begged the question: If huge majorities of Americans do, in fact, like their existing health care plans and want to keep them, then wasn't ObamaCare a crappy solution in search of a non-existent problem?

The answer was the same for this boast as for "bending the cost curve" and "universal coverage" - it was bullshit.  It was ALL bullshit.  Huge majorities of Americans TOLD him it was bullshit.  He and the Pelosi/Reid Politburo rammed it down our throats anyway.

Behold the latest two groups to get shat upon.

***Red Barry's idea of "simplifying" the lives of senior citizens is to strip three million of them of their prescription drug coverage starting next year:

More than three million seniors may have to switch their Medicare prescription plan next year, even if they’re perfectly happy with it, thanks to an attempt by the government to simplify their lives.

The policy change could turn into a hassle for seniors who hadn’t intended to switch plans during Medicare’s open enrollment season this fall.

And it risks undercutting President Barack Obama’s promise that people who like their health care plans can keep them.

A new analysis by a leading private research firm estimates that more than 3 million beneficiaries will see their current drug plan eliminated as Medicare tries to winnow down duplicative and confusing coverage, in order to offer consumers more meaningful choices. Instead of 40 or more plans in each state, beneficiaries would pick from 30 or so.

“As a result of this policy, there are going to be fewer plans offered in 2011,” said Bonnie Washington, a senior analyst with Avalere Health, which produced the study. “There is still going to be robust choice for beneficiaries, but those who have to change plans could experience some disruption and inconvenience.”

You know what another adjective for "duplicative and confusing" is?  Competitive.  Here's an analogy: Let's say you want to go out to eat tonight.  Nothing fancy, just a burger somewhere.  But look how many places you can get burgers: McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Dairy Queen, Jack In The Box, Burger Chef, Red Robin.  You can also get burgers at sit-down restraurants such as Shari's and Denny's as well, plus all manner of local burger stands and drive-ins.  Speaking as something of a burger connaisseur, that says to me one word: choice.  Variety.  It's why every fast food chain has a dollar/value/combo menu, and why they're always coming up with something new and delicious and healthy.  More choices are good.  Fewer choices are bad.

Except to a Marxist.  Now imagine the federal government nationalizes the fast food industry and "gives" us "single-combo".  With Scheherezade running things, it'd be some sanitized veggie gyro or something with a plain mini-salad (no dressing) and a half-pint of skim milk.  That's it.  No condiments, no kid's toy, no salt (Oh, my GOD, no salt), no dessert.  For young, old, male, female, fat, skinny, that's what you'd get.  Oh, yes, and each combo would cost ten bucks.  And the golden arches would be replaced with the O.

Why?  Because all those choices are "duplicative and confusing," dontcha know.  We're not smart enough to weigh and evaluate all those "duplicative and confusion choices"; we might just make the "wrong" one.  So for our own good, Barack Obama will eliminate all those "duplicative and confusing" choices and make the "right" choice for us.  And if you don't like that, well, who said YOU had any choice in the matter, Nazi evilmonger scum?

A quarter of seniors' prescription drug choices disappear next year alone.  At that pace, by 2014 - The Year We Are Fully Assimilated - there'll be one choice: Barry's.  And we'll like it, because the "simplication" of servitude is better than all the bother of living as a free human being.

Did I mention senior citizens vote?  Like no other demographic?  And they're, shall we say, "highly motivated" this cycle?

***You know how the Obama Depression keeps bankrupting states, which keeps trigger federal bailouts, which keeps triggering more bankruptcies, which keep triggering more federa bailouts, ad nauseum?  Here's a fascinating ObamaCare casualty you probably never thought of as belonging among victims:

More than a fifth of the nation’s 5,000 hospitals are owned by governments and many are drowning in debt caused by rising health-care costs, a spike in uninsured patients, cuts in Medicare and Medicaid and payments on construction bonds sold in fatter times.

In other words, all the factors that O-Care is going to enormously exacerbate.

Because most public hospitals tend to be solo operations, they don’t enjoy the economies of scale, or more generous insurance contracts, which bolster revenue at many larger nonprofit and for-profit systems.

Local officials also predict an expensive future as new requirements—for technology, quality accounting and care coordination—start under the overhaul, which became law in March.

Moody’s Investors Service said in April that many standalone hospitals won’t have the resources to invest in information technology or manage bundled payments well. Many nonprofits have bad credit ratings and in a tight credit market cannot borrow money, either. Meantime, the federal government is expected to cut aid to hospitals.

“We’ve been hit by that whiplash recently, with industries closing down and the number of insured growing less,” said J.D. Mosteller, the attorney for Barnwell County, S.C., which is considering selling its hospital.

There is a lone ultimate fate for these municipal hospitals: They'll cease to exist.  Either they'll get unloaded into the private sector, where larger systems won't be able to afford to upgrade and/or renevate them will will probably shut them down; or they won't be unloadable, in which case they'll be terminated without that extra step.  Whoever owns them, public hospitals and clinics will become even more unsustainable because they're the ones stuck taking Medicaid patients - of which there's been a gusher increase of late - and government Medicaid reimbursement rates suck even worse than Medicare rates (sorry, they bend the cost curve even better than Medicare does), which is why public hospitals and clincs are unsustainable.

Of course we know what the endgame Obamunist solution to such amputation-lovin', tonsil'-wacking private doctor greed is, don't we?  Nationalize all private hospitals and clincs (on the same rationale as ObamaCare) and draft all doctors into government servitude.

Because it's so less....confusing and duplicative that way.

***So it's finally come to this:

“Unfortunately, there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in [the reform law] and what isn’t,” Sebelius told ABC News Radio in an interview Monday.

With several vulnerable House Democrats touting their votes against the bill, and Republicans running on repeal, Sebelius said “misinformation given on a 24/7 basis” has led to the enduring opposition nearly six months after the lengthy debate ended in Congress.

“So, we have a lot of reeducation to do,” Sebelius said.

The administration is particularly concerned about the views of senior citizens – who “have been a target of a lot of the misinformation,” according to the health secretary. 

Ensign Ed calls this "parody".  I don't.  I think Oberfuehrer Sebelius's choice of words is completely genuous and entirely deliberate.  They are the words borne of the totalitarian mindset that seeks to put over truth as lies and lies as the truth.  The public isn't buying the lies - never did, in fact - and the regime has grown so frustrated that I think they fully intend to "re-educate" the American public - forcibly, if necessary - into regurgitating the effusive, toadying praise Dr. Chicago wants to hear.

If the Pelosi Politburo is left in power for another biennium, nothing will stand in the way of it.  Which might be why the Donk view outside the Obabinet is just a little bit more nuanced:

Now, HCAN’s field crews are finding that the best way to support reform-friendly lawmakers is to talk about something else: jobs, the economy or other issues likely to resonate more with voters.

“We want to be flexible in talking about what is most relevant to constituents, whatever issues are most motivational,” said HCAN’s national field director, Margarida Jorge, who organizes a daily call with their partner organizations. “We can have a high level of focus on health care but also understand at times the focus is going to shift.”

HCAN activists say they are not dodging their key issue; rather, they want to keep pace with voter concerns, which have markedly shifted over the past year.

But what HCAN describes as a tactical shift, reform opponents see as proof that the law is unpopular, a loser for Democrats in a tough election cycle. “Voters don’t like health reform and they know that,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former CBO director who now works with the American Action Forum on their Operation Healthcare Choice project. “Independents are key to control; health reform is unpopular but jobs and economy could move votes. When it comes to substance, on health reform, they’re in bad shape.”

Remember: First the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Axis wanted to ram through ObamaCare because it would help the crummy economy; then they wanted to ram through ObamaCare because all the front-loaded and so-called "consumer-friendly benefits" would distract voters from the crummy economy; and now they want to talk about the crummy economy "Recover Summer" has made even worse to distract voters from Barack Obama's Landmark Signature Achievement.

They can't talk about the economy, they can't talk about O-Care, and they can't even demagogue Bush anymore.  If Democrats weren't flailingly denouncing the electorate they need to keep them in power as racists, bigots, sexists, homophobes, and Islamophobes, they'd all be mute as well as deaf.

You know, I think I've come around to believing that this really is some sort of mental disorder:

“I think what we need to do is go ahead and repeal this thing,” said Crist, while on Fox News Sunday on March 28. “Let’s start over. Let’s take an opportunity to do what’s right for the people.”

After switching parties, Crist softened his rhetoric on the issue. In a July 14 interview with the Wall Street Journal, he said the law “should be modified,” and didn’t support repealing it.

He then issued a “fact check” on his website on July 29, after people were understandably confused about where he stood on the issue.

“The Obama health care bill was too big, too expensive, and expanded the role of government far too much,” Crist wrote. “Had I been in the United States Senate at the time, I would have voted against the bill because of unacceptable provisions like the cuts to the Medicare Advantage program.”

Maybe this particular issue is like how I used to get in the swimming pool when I was a kid.  First I'd dip in a toe, than both feet, then my ankles, until by the time I was actually submerged the pool was closing.

When you think about it that way, it's astonishing that Sorry Charlie completed this about-face before Labor Day:

I'll give him credit for trying to toss in a whizzer - after this interview, he tried to flip back by claiming that he was "misquoted".  As at least hopelessly confused as Sorry Charlie is by now, he might actually believe it.

And on and on and on it goes.  Somehow while destroying his equilbrium on O-Care he was risking wind-shear damage on sodomarriage:

The sad part about this - sad in the way that you feel when you're forced to move grandma into the dementia ward - is that by this time, it doesn't matter which positions he's taken on what issues.  It's all such a discombobulated mess that nobody knows what this man stands for, if he ever stood for anything.  And consequently, nobody has any reason to vote for him.  NOBODY.  Not even Dems who finally got tired of waiting for Crist to just switch parties already and "went home" to a candidate in Kendrick Meek that has zero chance of winning.  In other words, Florida Democrats essentially wrote off a U.S. Senate seat rather than continue to interminably indulge this psycho.

But if it's any consolation to Sorry Charlie, his quixotic exercise in unquenchable mercenary self-interest will go down in history for one thing: as the first self-administered frontal lobotomy in medical history.

There comes a time in every game, regardless of the sport, when the losing team has tried everything it could, as hard as it could, to come from behind to win, and they've failed.  You can see it on the face of the coach, as he stands stoicly, arms folded, looking up at the clock and the scoreboard.  You can see it on the faces of the players, mimmicking their coach or sitting dejectedly with heads down beneath towels.  There's still some time left on the clock, but the game is out of reach.  Defeat is inevitable.

This phenomenon manifests itself a little differently in politics, where appearances are a part of the game, but it's just as unmistakable:

It's almost like they have no plan at all to fish the economy out of the toilet. Instead, the story will be the Tea Party, which...racist!

The DCCC Chairman leads:

In a speech this morning in Washington, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.) will offer a rebuttal to House Minority Leader John Boehner's remarks earlier this week in Ohio -- making the case that it is Republicans, not Democrats, who would move the country backwards economically (and otherwise) if put back into power.

 

The speech will hit Republican for pursuing a "destructive agenda" and call out the tea party for moving the GOP to the "extreme right", according to a committee official briefed on the remarks.

Van Hollen's speech, which is set for 10 a.m. at the National Press Club, is part of a broader push by national Democrats to suggest the tea party has taken over the GOP -- and set the stakes for midterm voters.

That "broader push" is already on. Here's civil rights activist and former Democratic congressman Walter Fauntroy:

"We are going to take on the barbarism of war, the decadence of racism, and the scourge of poverty, that the Ku Klux -- I meant to say the Tea Party," Fauntroy told a news conference today at the National Press Club. "You all forgive me, but I -- you have to use them interchangeably."

 

Fauntroy attempted to explain the comparison to white supremacists by saying that organizers behind the "Restoring Honor" rally are the same people who cut audio cables from a sound system the night before the historic March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

It almost seems....unsporting to have to point this out, but this is the vile, disgusting, despicable, defamatory, incendiary, and yes, RACIST propaganda line the Left has been flailing away with for over a year.  And yet the Tea Party movement remains stubbornly....popular.  Largely because the Tea Party movement is....Us, The People.  It's typically never a good idea to piss in the faces of people whose votes you still do need to get to a majority, and a majority is still what you need to win elections.  The Donks have rammed a lot of garbage down our throats the past year and a half, but I don't think they got to that one.  It's almost as if they're hanging their dejected heads beneath vicious, angry sneers.

The rest of why the Tea Party movement remains stubbornly popular harkens back to another old saying: "What you are speaks so loudly, I can't hear what you're saying."  The Batman corollary is "It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me".  And what Democrats have spent the past year and a half doing is attempting to systematically destroy the United States from within as we have known it for over two centuries, against the will and over the top of the American electorate, while guffawingly flipping us all off.  No amount of tired, wheezing, bitter, power-clinging, slanderous vituperation is going to obscure that fact.  IN fact, it's only going to add to the ass-kicking comeuppance that's headed their direction in two short months.

As if to prove the point (and that he hadn't gotten the DCCC memo), guess who seconded anticipated Speaker-designate John Boehner's call for The One to consign his economic disciples to the outer darkness:

Embattled freshman Representative Tom Perriello (D-VA5) called for President Obama to fire Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on August 7 during a town-hall meeting in Ruckersville, Virginia, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The call gained attention this week after House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH8) made a similar one in a speech Tuesday on the economy.

A local Tea Party group confirmed Perriello’s stance in a press release.

“In calling for Secretary Geithner’s firing, we support Congressman Perriello’s sentiment, with the hope that by replacing our nation’s chief economic policy makers we can begin the path to economic recovery,” it said in a press release Thursday. 

He won't admit it in the national spotlight (yet).  But heck, Perriello's not the only drone ducking Politburo memos, even about sentiment TPers don't actually share.

Exit question: Yeah, the respective messages are meant for diametric opposite demographics, but aren't members of BOTH demographics going to hear them?  Doesn't such incoherence discredit the messages and the messengers in the eyes of both audiences?  Or are either even paying attention anymore?

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After the primary in Nevada, you will recall, Reid put up a negative ad using a doctored clip of Sharron Angle, his Republican opponent, seemingly saying that she wanted to "phase out Social Security and Medicare." The ad sent her reeling. She did not have the money to counter it and Reid piled on $1 million behind the negative. Angle fell from a 9 point lead to a 7 point deficit under the impact of this ad. Some gave up.

We didn't. We appealed to you for funds for the Americans for New Leadership, the Independent Expenditure group sponsoring the ads and put up a rebuttal ad.

The rebuttal accurately explained that Angle wanted to phase out the method of financing Social Security and Medicare so that the Congress and the Democrats couldn't borrow the money to fund their deficit spending.

With $400,000 behind the rebuttal, Angle moved up in the polls and now leads Reid 46-43 in our polls.

The next step we want to take is to put up a very simple ad that contrasts Reid's and Angle's positions on the issues. As a result of Reid's attacks, Angle has acquired the reputation for taking eccentric and flakey positions on issues. We want to stress that "on the issues that matter, Reid is wrong, wrong, wrong."

So here's the ad we want to run:

"Do you support the $850 billion stimulus package Obama passed last year? Reid voted yes. Sharron Angle says no.

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Damn violent, murderous, Nazi, Tea Party fascists.  Now they're threatening to kill....themselves:

Where the hate is, my friends, where the hate is....