Posted on 07/28/2010 1:42:19 PM PDT by pabianice
In another sign that House Dem leaders are eager to silence talk about them losing the House, top Democrats are circulating a memo on Capitol Hill that lays out a detailed case for why Republicans will come up short this fall.
The argument in the DCCC memo, which was sent over by a source and opens a window on Dem thinking about the political landscape in a difficult year, is two-fold.The key points: First, Republicans simply can't put enough seats in play to win the House. Second, the Tea Party has become a massive liability nationally in multiple unappreciated ways.
Here's the memo's argument about the number of seats in play:
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
No we won’t lose the House is ‘Rat speak for “lets gear up the fraud and smear machines”.
"We Suck Less" isn't exactly going to be a winning strategy.
Even picking up 30 seats would be an end to the Obama agenda.
His victories have been only by a few votes.
Ofcourse, if we won back the House, we could start rolling back the agenda.
I think the Democrats are underestimating the voter anger.
Oh, this is the WAPO reporting. All this newspaper is qualified to report on is MACACA. Eat MACACA and die WAPO.
LOL! Dream on dems, unless the rass poll starts to look better for you, its all over except the crying. You screwed the american public, you passed legislation against their wishes, you have an incompetent boob as prez, and just about everything about you smells of corruption and stinks to low hell.
Yes, it will be a vote to oust the Democrats who refused to listen to the will of the People and a warning to the GOP that they hadn't better do the same.
The ruling today in Arizona, if played right, should be good for at least another 5-10 House seats moving solidly into the (R) column
The folks who comment on this article are delusional.
Were I to be running the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee I would be ensuring that every R candidate highlighted his democrat opponent's vote for Speaker of the House. Nancy Pelosi is who every candidate out there should be running against.
Regards,
TS
The GOP doesn’t offer a real alternative? Are you serious? Have you been around for the past year and a half and cognizant of what is going on?
The Republican party is our only hope at this point, and they have been reasonably good about trying to stop the democrats from destroying our country...what are you doing?
They may not lose the house or the senate. The game is rigged, we’re paying Obama to do nothing but fly around the country and campaign. If you think the View apperance was a lark think again. He’s carefully energizing the same dumb ass base that elected him. The polls are beginning to show remorse by those that turned against the Dems lately. Watch out if the GOP doesn’t make major gains, the country as we know it will cease to exist, welcome to the USSA.
They were saying the same things in 1994...
The EMORats will not lose the house, or the senate. But America has lost either way.
The stupid public who watches TV and pays for cable and sat TV keep the Democrats in power. Any Repub who stands up to them gets killed by the TV newsmedia. Why bother.
The serfs love their clicker. As long as they get ball games and reality Tv they will keep watching and enjoy the brainwashing.
Winning the house does nothing. You can not roll back anything with control of only one branch. All the RINOs could do is block any further action or funding. But RINOs, being RINOs who need to go along to get along, will to continue to sell the country out.
The GOP has repeatedly demonstrated that they are just EMORat light.
SHHH!
Let them keep believing that.
Maybe we should offer a $1,000,000 prize to anyone who can find one scintilla of difference between the CPUSA and the Democrats platform.
The "Congressional Progressive Caucus" must be targeted and destroyed as well their allies in the press and academia.
No holds barred, take no prisoners, name names and make these red bastards pay dearly for the consequences of nearly one hundred years of insidious and unrelenting attacks on capitalism and judeo-christian morality.
CPUSA And Obama Platforms Are Identical
Forget for the moment about Bill Ayers and Obama’s other Communist friends and mentors of the distant past.
From the current ‘Election 2008′ brochure from the Communist Party Of The United States (a pdf file):
A new day is dawning. Our country is at a turning point. This is a time of great possibility.
Issued as a public service by the Communist Party USA
The choice is clear. Stay with the Bush-McCain race to the bottom or raise up the whole country with a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right on November 4.
A new day is dawning. Our country is at a turning point. This is a time of great possibility. Across the land, people are coming together to reshape our nation’s priorities to make government “of, by and for the people” a reality.
From the Midwest to the South, from coast to coast, in big cities and rural communities voters have turned out in record numbers for change.
A landslide vote on November 4 can open the way to recovery from the very deep wounds of the Bush administration and decades of corporate right-wing control.
There is a crisis in every critical area of national life. Profits at the top are record high, but families can’t make ends meet. Trillions are squandered in Iraq, but 45 million are without health care. Billions are spent on tax breaks to the super rich, but working families are losing their homes and young people can’t afford higher education.
Working people want bold new policies to end war restore democratic traditions and create green living wage jobs, affordable housing, healthcare and quality education for everyone.
Republican John McCain, the candidate of the military industrial complex, will continue the Bush agenda. “100 years” in Iraq, Social Security privatization, and tax cuts for the rich. His Republican partners in Congress have blocked, stalled or gutted every bill that benefits working people since they lost majority control in 2006.
Although the ultra-right is weakened and divided, they continue to push fear, division, racism and anti-immigrant bigotry in this year’s elections, aided and abetted by the corporate media. These multi-pronged poisonous tactics can only be overcome with unbreakable unity.
The choice is clear. Stay with the Bush-McCain race to the bottom or raise up the whole country with a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right on November 4.
Voters are demanding a new kind of politics to rebuild our country for the common good. A democratic spirit of unity and hope is inspiring millions to get involved.
During the Great Depression of the 1930’s, unemployed workers and their allies marched and organized until public works jobs, Social Security and New Deal programs were won. In the 1960’s the great civil rights movement won the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
In 2008, union members, African Americans, Latinos, youth and women, seniors, environmental and peace voters are forging a powerful new all encompassing movement that makes great changes possible.
Help make history. Talk with co-workers, neighbors, friends and family. Volunteer to knock on doors, make calls, get online to turnout a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right on November 4, and keep the movement going.
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We offer these proposals as a contribution toward the bold policy changes necessary to meet the immediate needs of working people, eliminate poverty and move our country forward with a new President and Congress. Funding to come from monies now being spent on the Iraq war, military budget and tax breaks to the super rich.
1. Immediate Relief
A moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Reset mortgages so payments are affordable. No bail outs for banks.
Extend unemployment compensation, increase payments and eligibility. Increase food stamps, WIC, children’s health insurance, and low income energy assistance.
Assist deficit-ridden state and local governments so they can preserve services and jobs. Fund “ready-to-go” infrastructure projects.
2. A Peacetime, Green Jobs Economy for All
Enact massive public works job creation to make existing buildings energy efficient, construct new schools, hospitals, affordable housing, mass transit and bridges. Priority to areas hurt by loss of manufacturing, loss of family farms and highest unemployment areas including the Katrina-devastated Gulf Coast.
Major clean, affordable energy development project for solar, wind and biomass electricity generation. Immediate program to cut greenhouse gas emissions and for environmental cleanup. Restore Federal energy regulation and encourage public ownership of utilities.
Enact the Employee Free Choice Act to enable workers to form unions without intimidation and win higher wages and benefits, dignity and respect.
Enact HR 676 the US National Health Insurance Act to provide universal health insurance with single-payer financing. Fully fund public education from pre-school through higher education and technical training. No privatization of Social Security or Medicare. Expand and improve benefits.
3. Restore Civil Rights, the Bill of Rights and Separation of Powers
Restore Civil Rights Act enforcement, affirmative action in employment, education, and housing. End the “school to prison” pipeline. Outlaw hate crimes. Preserve Roe v. Wade.
Pass immigration reform with legalization, a path to citizenship, due process, no militarization of the borders, and no exploitative guest worker programs. No human being is illegal.
Repeal Patriot Act. Restore Habeas Corpus rights. No more torture. Investigate and prosecute Bush administration violations of the Constitution.
Expand voting rights. Enact publicly financed elections, same day registration, voting rights for ex-felons, verifiable voting equipment, and instant runoff voting. Restore Fairness Doctrine in media.
4. Strength through Peace
Withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq with no bases or U.S. corporations left behind. Full care for returning veterans. No war on Iran or expansion of troops in Afghanistan. Assistance to Iraqi people to rebuild their country.
Adopt a new foreign policy of diplomacy and respect for all nations, instead of preemptive war for corporate interests. Renew commitment to UN peace role.
End trade policies that enrich corporations while destroying jobs. Ratify Kyoto Treaty and other climate change agreements.
Enforce nuclear non-proliferation, work to abolish nuclear weapons. Cut Pentagon spending in half, close down US bases around the world.
Vote November 4 as if your life, and your future, depend on it!
Defeating the right wing is the first step in the struggle to end exploitation, poverty, racism and war inherent in capitalism.
The Communist Party USA and Young Communist League participate in today’s movements confident that they set the stage for more fundamental change tomorrow.
Throughout our 88-year history we have defended the interests of the working class, fighting for unity and democratic rights. Today we are guided by our motto, “People and Nature Before Profits.”
Our vision is a socialist USA, that opens the way for equality, world peace, real democracy, a society in which people control their own destinies in a sustainable world.
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