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To: VinL It's time to seriously turn up the heat on McConnell. Make him personally feel the heat of his position. To do this, I suggest some personal angst be inflicted on the McConnell household. McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, was the Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush, and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. This makes her fair game to be asked to comment on the politics of what McConnell and Obama are doing. Some reporter should drag her into the controversy and make her go on record supporting her husband's cowardice. Provoke McConnell into doing something stupid and reckless. -PJ

Makes sense to me.

[Political Junkie Too]

McConnell thinks he "won the argument." Let's test that by bringing others into the discussion. Chao was a White House Cabinet member; is this a "win" to her? In her experience at the highest levels, is this really the best that Republicans could do?

Make McConnell personally feel it by driving a wedge in the family.

-PJ