How's That Strategy Working For You?

Back in January, David Plouffe was brought back to the White House to set a "winning" strategy for Democrats for the midterm elections. Plouffe, the chief strategist of Barack Obama's 2008 winning campaign, was called upon to see if he could re-create a winning strategy this time around. He's had nearly a year to turn the Democrats' fortunes around. How's that working out?

Here is a transcription of a monologue I did on my national radio show two weeks ago. As we head into election day, it's critical reading----and good fun! Enjoy.

"We're so close to the election we can taste it. We're so "hepped" up to vote that we are already lining up outside the polling places. Aren't we? Since we're so close, I thought it would be a useful exercise to take a stroll down memory lane. I saved a couple of articles, written by top Democrats. They're articles they don't want you to see or hear or remember, because they wrote them months ago. But guess what? I've got 'em, because I kept them, and right now, we're going to splash them all over the national airwaves. These top Democrats wish they could eat their words right now, but we're gonna push them right back in their faces, just as they forced ObamaCare and so much more into our faces. We're gonna make them eat their words.

Let's begin with a fascinating look at political delusion. David Plouffe was a central guy in "The Bama's" 2008 campaign; he was right there with David Axelrod. He was one of the top guys in terms of messaging, getting the kids out to vote and all of that. He spearheaded the Facebook and the Twitter approaches to the campaign. He was right there getting everybody mobilized and out. Well, David Plouffe has now been brought back. He was brought back, I guess, at the beginning of the year into the White House to try to minimize Democratic loses in November by trying to recapture that magic of the 2008 campaign. Well, as we all know now, the magic was never real. It was a "magic mushrooms" moment for a lot of people, and now it's long gone. The trip, so to speak, is over, and the hangover is here. David Plouffe was brought back to give you more magic mushrooms.

In January, he wrote a piece in the Washington Post that was stunning in its arrogance and its delusion. It was called, "November Doesn't Need to be a Nightmare for Democrats." And here's what Plouffe wrote-I'm sure he would like to remove this from the Internet, Lexus, Nexus, and Google, but I printed it out back in January, kind of forgot about it, and then found it this week and I'm gonna bring it to you now. Here's what Obama's top campaign guy wrote back in January: "There are a few things that democrats can do to strengthen our hand for 2010," he wrote. Number one: pass some meaningful health insurance reform package without delay. Americans health," he wrote, "and our nation's long-term fiscal health depend on it. I know that the short-term politics are bad. It's a good plan that's become a demonized caricature. Politically speaking," he said, "if we do not pass it, the GOP will continue attacking the plan as if we did anyway and voters will have no ability to measure its upside." He continues, "We own the bill and the health care votes. We need to get some of the upside. P.S.," he adds, hopefully, "Health care is a jobs creator." Ha! All right, so his number one point in January is gosh, golly, you really gotta pass ObamaCare because it's so gonna help us.

David Plouffe's number two point, January, in the Washington Post: "We need to show that we not just are focused on jobs, but also create them. There are some terrific ideas that we can implement," he said, "from tax cuts for small businesses to more incentives for green jobs, but full recovery will happen only when the private sector begins hiring in earnest." Well that's true, but this administration has spent all of its time trying to kill and suffocate the private sector. In fact, just this week we heard that the private sector shed nearly 40,000 jobs just last month and the unemployment rate is going up, not down. Plouffe continues in January: "That's why Democrats must create a strong foundation for long-term growth by addressing health care, energy, and education. Voters are always smarter than they are given credit for." Well, if that's true, Mr. Plouffe, then why do you take us for dopes?

He continues, point number three for the Democrats: "Make sure voters understand what the stimulus did for the economy." Uh, I can't really add commentary to that because it's so absurd. They told us the stimulus was going to keep unemployment to eight percent. Well it sailed over ten percent and has basically stayed there for about a year and a half, this all after they passed the stimulus. He continues: "Democrats broke the back of the recession with not a single Republican vote in the House. In the long run, this will haunt Republicans, especially since they made the mess."

So back in January, they thought it would be a swell idea to go after the republicans for not backing the stimulus. Well, here we are a year and a half later. We've lost over three million jobs since that stimulus was signed into law. All of that money, nearly a trillion of it, almost all of it spent for nothing, flushed down the loo. And then they go on to say that this is going to "haunt the Republicans." Really? Actually, hmm, we're headed to a pretty historic win. I don't think that's called "haunting the Republicans." I think that's called wind at the Republicans backs.

Next point, Plouffe in January, Washington Post, advice for the Democrats: "Don't accept any lectures on spending. The GOP took us from a $236 billion surplus, when President Bush took office, to a $1.3 trillion deficit with unpaid-for tax cuts for the wealthy, two wars, and the Medicare Prescription Drug Program." Let's just take that apart for a second. First of all, he is absolutely incorrect about the $1.3 trillion deficit. That is incorrect. Bush left Obama with a $450 billion deficit, which is bad enough, but what they are adding in here to get over the trillion mark was TARP, which Obama wanted and voted for and supported! Also, the tax cuts for the wealthy, well, you know what? The Bush tax cuts across the board gave us 53 consecutive months of job creation and economic growth. He also talks about the two wars under President Bush. Well, last time I checked, President Obama was sort of wrapping one and upping the other one in Afghanistan.

I think Plouffe wishes that his Washington Post piece would go away, because, in retrospect, from where we sit today, it looks pretty stupid. This is not a dumb guy, but all the arguments that they put out there in January have blown up in their faces. I mentioned his point about plastering the Republicans on their spending, and he makes the point about how the Republicans blew up the deficit and the debt with Medicate prescription drug program, which President Bush signed into law. That was their beloved Ted Kennedy initiative, that Medicare Prescription Drug Program. All of the Democrats wanted that. So here they are trying to blame the GOP for that when it was THEIR deal. Yeah, Bush signed it into law, but that was a Democrat thing.

He goes on to say, "We must make the Republicans own their record of disastrous economic policies, exploding deficits and a failure to even attempt to solve our health care and energy challenges." So THEIR solutions have been government takeovers of those things, exploding the deficit in a quadruple way from the Republicans and inflicting on us even more disastrous economic policies. Plouffe concludes this way: "Change is not just about policies. We have to make sure that the freshman and sophomore members of the House, who won, in part, on transparency and reform issues, can show that they are delivering." Oh really? Oh, we're just rejecting what they've delivered. Finally, Plouffe concludes, "Run great campaigns, Democrats." That's kind of hard when all of your candidates are fleeing from your president and their own agenda.

And he ends this way: Hey Democrats, "no bedwetting. Instead of fearing what may happen, let's prove that we have more than just the brains to govern. We have the guts to govern." Well, it's how you've governed that's been precisely the problem, David Plouffe."

Comments

[Rob]

Thank you for saving the articles, Monica. The Liberal/Socialist agenda has flown completely apart and none of them can run on the record.

As I was reading your post, I was listening to a news report in which Senator (and Orthopedic Surgeon) John Barrasso said that the latest estimates are that not only did Obamacare FAIL to produce 400,000 jobs immediately, as promised by the outgoing Speaker, Obamacare will cause the LOSS of over 800,000 jobs. Just so no one thinks that's a typo, or I got over-zealous with my 0's: we stand to lose eight hundred thousand more jobs.

So this was a good time to revisit the Plouffe article: Healthcare is NOT a jobs creator, and as he indicated, Democrats ".....own the bill and the health care votes." They sure do.

One week to go.

[Truther]

Thus global warming was born. Its purpose : Under the guise of a peace effort, to derange US science as a response to the intentional destruction of Soviet crops. This stupid Communist movement spread through networks to many science departments (1985-86) across the US, as they began to make up scientific results favorable to the Soviets, or deliberately made up results for their own personal political benefit instead. Over time it would corrupt all Science, as nepotists and their associates displaced competent researchers. New graduates in the US were being corrupted and hence this process would also hurt our economy. Earlier they took SDI funds to simply burn them off so no one else would actually do the research. Some started training the Chinese to replace WASPY people.

In case you think US/USSR tension was not very great, or that the intentions of people in the US, were not actually that serious, consider the following.

Chernobyl also happened in 1986 in the Ukraine, at about the same time, spewing radioactive waste westward toward Europe. One must wonder if this was intentional act of frustration, eventually leading to the Moscow coup in ‘91. Clearly it demonstrated that airborne substances could travel and be harmful. In the Ukraine, the wind pattern is usually west to east, while at the time of the powerplant explosion it was east to west. Sagan was indeed arrogant, for he was exposed to radiation at Chernobyl and probably died from it - because he did not know how to use a Geiger counter. The Ukrainians probably wanted the Soviets to fight, but they nyet-ted the Ukrainians who then wanted out of the USSR.

Another noteworthy incident occurred in Jan 1986 - the so-called Challenger accident. It was called an O-ring problem at the 305 degree position of the aft field joint of the right SRB(solid rocket booster), but why did they launch that day, and why exactly, did the joint fail? Was the motive to stop Reagan's propaganda "space teacher" flight, that attempted to wrap the flag around the NASA program, militarize space, and stop the circular but joint US-USSR program? In 1982, Reagan's NSDD-42 designated the space shuttle as the primary launch system for the US national security space program. It directed DOD and NASA to develop the shuttle into a fully operational, cost-effective system. The Challenger accident seemed to show that pushing the schedule would result in failure – a demonstration that the Space Shuttle was not fated to be an operationally worthy system, this ridding NASA of the DOD. Someone mentioned all it would actually take to destroy Challenger is someone leaving a wrench out on the pad, that could puncture a hole in the skin of the liquid propellant tank. Since the Challenger breech was obviously present at or near ignition, and this SRB breech was pointed right at the bulbous end of the liquid propellant tank, many causes might exist besides the cold itself.

Did Richard Feynman deliberately misrepresent this to the public, a man who worked on the Manhattan Project, and claimed to pick locks and open safes at Los Alamos, almost saying outright he may have helped to pass nuclear secrets to the Soviets? Feynman railed against NASA, saying it played down the risks of space flight to Christa McAuliffe, and that space flight was not for civilians. Why? Was it because Reagan placed her on the flight to ensure the success of the mission to launch a new communications relay satellite, one that might be used for Star Wars and Landsat Spy satellites? There were also murmurs created that Reagan caused the crash by pushing NASA to launch.

Was it the ugly head of Soviet-sympathizing Luddites that rose up against Challenger and the new technology in space? In this period(84-86) near all launch competency for heavy payloads disappeared. Usually the workhorse of the launch fleet, the Delta missile was not launched at all in 82-83, and 85. In 1986 2 launches were made and 1 a failure. For the Titan system, 2 Vandenburg launches failed in 85-86 with only one successful launch. One, launched two months after the shuttle, blew up right on the pad from a SRB failure almost identical to the shuttle. The result was the stoppage of Star Wars and military missions aboard NASA shuttle flights. And so, Reagan fell off his horse. It took 2 years until the US could launch eyes in the sky, this outside of NASA in hardened programs intended to keep out saboteurs. Today, the UN Space Station, the mission of which is to exhibit international "goodwill", is winding down, or is it?

[gringoman]

Our Princess is generally right on target when scoping out the Obots, the Soros socialists and their neocom tactics for controlling, confusing and ultimately crippling this Republic.

Now if only she would ask some questions that will cut right through G.O.P. kabuki. Two quick examples.

1. Why do these Goopers never raise the question of Obama's hidden school records?

2. Why did they never make an issue of Congress outrageously exempting itself from the Obamanationcare it legislated for everybody else?

Cara Mia....crickets?

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MARK LEVIN Repeal it, Republicans, or be repealed.

GRINGOBRO Do you understand?
You better listen to that man.
Obamanationcare.
Wash it right out of America's hair.
Hey, Goopers! Hear, hear!

[jay]

"Well, it's how you've governed that's been precisely the problem, David Plouffe.""
that was the problem the Republicans had, too.They didn't lose badly because they did everything right!

[gringoman]

Obama-Nation, November 2010

60 Minutes Shock Report: National Unemployed and Underemployed 17.5%; California 22%
by Larry O’Connor

In a report sure to cause consternation at the White House and in the offices of the Democratic Leadership in Congress, “60 Minutes” provided an in-depth report on the realities of the unemployment situation in America today.

When you take into account the underemployed as well as the unemployed, the national rate hits 17% and California a staggering 22%.

To put a face on the realities of the underemployed in America under Obamanomincs, reporter Scott Pelley spoke with a fiber-optics engineering manager who has been looking for work for over a year. He just took a job working at a Target. 20% of the unemployed in America have college degrees.

According to the report, 1/3 of the unemployed have been out of work for over a year. This hasn’t happenned since the Great Depression.

Airing one week before the mid-term elections, this report explains better than anything, exactly what is at stake for our country on November 2.

[xbjllb]

Going out on a limb here... first, this is not a prophecy or something I strongly felt coming. But I would be remiss if I didn't pass this on. Something very horrible MAY be happening in November, and it won't be the election results one way or the other. A lot of rumblings about imminent nuclear war in the continuum, but it could be a planet wide national disaster. Or both, possibly related, and a resulting dollar and worldwide financial collapse. A life changing event far above 9-11 and false flag shenanigans. Bunker time.

Make sure you're ready to face God. And make sure He won't immediately toss you to your god Lucifer. A smart policy every day, despite the initial financial drag.

If I didn't care about your fate, I wouldn't be willing to look like an a*ss if this somehow doesn't happen.

Not kidding on this. This goes WAY beyond politics.

And I hope my sources are wrong far more than you do.

And vote anyway. This is not a cheap attempt to suppress any votes, although they will probably be moot.

[xbjllb]

Kiss Aqua Buddha man good-bye... Rand Paul storm trooper knocks "Move On" woman to ground, stomps on her head.

http://www.salon.com/news/rand_paul_jack_conway_kentucky_senate/?story=/politics/war_room/2010/10/25/paul_supporter_stoms_woman

This is how you lose an election. We are not, nor will we ever be, Nazi Germany.

Not for lack of the right trying.

[jay]

Perfect example why no matter who wins in Nov. The country's problems won't be any better. There's an article on the internet that shows how BOTH parties are lying.
net jobs under Bush-4.4 million
Private sector-4.6 million
Under Obama
net job losses3.3 million
private sector-3 million.
most mainstream economists believe the stimulus has helped end the recession monthe if not years sooner. Both parties are driving the nation towards insolvency.
On Obamacare. the costs will be by the CBO 1.2 trillion. But will be offset by 1.3 trillion in savings and new revenue. Which will lower the national debt by 170 trillion.
that'sa condensed portion of the article. Know that people being what they are. Will only agree with something when it agrees with them. For everyone is an expert! But, will say that if people think the country will be far better when someone in particular is elected. They don't know history!

[Truther]

Iran has carried out missile tests for what could be a plan for a nuclear strike on the United States, the head of a national security panel has warned.

In testimony before the House Armed Services Committee and in remarks to a private conference on missile defense over the weekend hosted by the Claremont Institute, Dr. William Graham warned that the U.S. intelligence community “doesn’t have a story” to explain the recent Iranian tests.

One group of tests that troubled Graham, the former White House science adviser under President Ronald Reagan, were successful efforts to launch a Scud missile from a platform in the Caspian Sea.

“They’ve got [test] ranges in Iran which are more than long enough to handle Scud launches and even Shahab-3 launches,” Dr. Graham said. “Why would they be launching from the surface of the Caspian Sea? They obviously have not explained that to us.”

Another troubling group of tests involved Shahab-3 launches where the Iranians “detonated the warhead near apogee, not over the target area where the thing would eventually land, but at altitude,” Graham said. “Why would they do that?”

Graham chairs the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, a blue-ribbon panel established by Congress in 2001.

The commission examined the Iranian tests “and without too much effort connected the dots,” even though the U.S. intelligence community previously had failed to do so, Graham said.

“The only plausible explanation we can find is that the Iranians are figuring out how to launch a missile from a ship and get it up to altitude and then detonate it,” he said. “And that’s exactly what you would do if you had a nuclear weapon on a Scud or a Shahab-3 or other missile, and you wanted to explode it over the United States.”
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The same could be done to Israel.

[soggy]

They don't know history!

Posted by: jay | October 26, 2010 at 03:12 AM

History has ALWAYS shown that CBO and all other financial forecasting by gov. agencies is ALWAYS wrong.

[xbjllb]

Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld headed for war crimes tribunals after all?

Apparently the Wikileaks Papers are filled with hard evidence of nonstop lying and nonstop coverups of heinous war crimes in Iraq.

About the only thing that could stop their prosecution now is.... you guessed it, thermonuclear war between Iran/Pakistan and Israel, and by extension the US and China.

Of course, such a war stops more than war tribunal trials. Stops just about everything on the planet dead, and quite awhile for Europe/GB and Russia to recover and become the world's only remaining superpowers.

The only question is, does Cheney still have his finger on the button?

And... button, button, where's the button?

[Kate]

Going just as intended for 2012, I'm sure.
Everyone eventually eats their words.. :)

[jay]

"History has ALWAYS shown that CBO and all other financial forecasting by gov. agencies is ALWAYS wrong."
Soggy , history has also shown that electing someone else doesn't solve the country's problems, either. Otherwise our problems would have been solved decades ago.

[xbjllb]

Speaking of China and nuclear war, they just had a successful cyber attack that knocked 50 of our missiles offline.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20020817-503544.html

Of course, the military and gov will never admit to that, while panicking behind closed doors.

[jay]

Monica, you said that the Kennedys stole the election from Impeached Nixon. As, Bush stole it from Gore? With the help from his Florida governor brother? If, you are going to have hanging chads. Then, have it in your brother's state!