Things Thomas Jefferson said...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, the pursuit of Happiness, the right to Attack and Overthrow these colonies without the impediment of legal or military opposition, lest they call us bad names and dislike us.

Kos hypocrisy

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/17/171747/891
mcjoan from Kos says:
The program's effectiveness is not what we're debating here--at issue is the program's legality, and this federal judge has declared that it is not. It would be just as effective carried out legally under the provisions of FISA.

Now lemme get this straight.
If Bush had carried out this program under the provisions of FISA dailykos would be overflowing with praise and admiration for the great work of the Bush administration?

Yeah right.

You'd be screaming the same things you are screaming now.
Illegal! Unconstitutional! Big Brother!

Just take your win graciously. Don't load it up with liberal hypocrisy.

Losing Democratic Tactic #8 - Savage your own

From listenhillary.org

These folks are anti-war, (I'm guess not Republicans), and anti Hillary. Their chant?

"It takes one bomb to raze a village"

If I was Hillary, I'd be ticked.

If I was the head of the RNC, I'd be happy.

Nancy Pelosi Indictment Watch (Satire)

The calls for Nancy's incarceration are building. On Daily Kos mcjoan lets Pelosi have it with both barrels:
In sum, it is a devastating and categorical rejection of (Nancy Pelosi and) the Bush administration's attempt to overturn our Constitution.
Parenthesis mine

Who knows what she got in exchange for her approval of the program October 1st. It looks like Jesse Jackson is next!

Indict Pelosi Now!

Now that a Federal judge has removed all doubt about Bush's illegal surveillance program, it's time to indict him and his co-conspirators (Cindy Sheehan???). By Peolosi's own admission she is merely "concerned" about the raping of the Bill of Rights:

Dear General Hayden:
During your appearance before the committee on October 1, you indicated that you had been operating since the September 11 attacks with an expansive view of your authorities with respect to the conduct of electronic surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and related statutes, orders, regulations, and guidelines. You seemed to be inviting expressions of concern from us,...

...Until I understand better the legal analysis regarding the sufficiency of the authority which underlies your decision on the appropriate way to proceed on this matter, I will continue to be concerned.
Sincerely,
NANCY PELOSI
Ranking Democrat

I do but jest. But don't look for any criticism of her from the left, it will be a fruitless search

Losing Democratic Tactic #7 - Overemphasize your point

Leahy's spokesman, David Carle, combated the perception that Republicans have kept America safe through their actions in Iraq. "The gross mismanagement of the war in Iraq has handed the terrorists the biggest recruiting and training ground they have ever had, making us less secure than before," he said.

Biggest ever. So big you can see it from plane and satellites. Bush must not want to take it out to keep us terrified. Heh.

I predict when the voter pulls the handle, they will think about whether we had any Post 9/11 attacks on U.S. soil. God willing, there won't be any more.

Losing Democratic Tactic #6 - Ridicule the (Republican) President

"Bush stark raving mad"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1927796&mesg_id=1927796

The reason for his madness? Not policy or ideology, but bicycling habits.

This pettiness puts more votes in the R column.

Stuff you won't see on the Daily Kos

"The Nahrawan Irrigation Project In Baghdad Province Was Completed ... The Project Provides Irrigation Water To Farmers In Order To Better Utilize Over 37,000 Acres Of Agricultural Land ..." (U.S. Dept. Of State, "Iraq Weekly Status Report," http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/70365.pdf, 8/9/06)

This is just politics as usual.

I question the timing.

Losing Democratic Tactic #2 - Deny the war on terror

From AuntiePinko at DU:
In the mean time, Levin, take the reportage about terrorist threats with both a healthy cynicism and a healthy respect

Cynicism and respect? Can you say oxymoron? Hmm, maybe there's a per centage thing going on here. 60% cynicism, is that progressive enough? Please publish the correct liberal ratio. Do I wait to take action when actual pieces of concrete have gone beyond bruising my body and are breaking the skin?

Is cynicism recommended for "terror" attacks? What's the recommended cynicism level for "9/11"?

But don't worry, if you get blown up because of your authorized cynicism, AuntiePinko will... will....

Oh, I guess you are outta luck.

Auntie Pinko won't take responsibility for her bad advice.

She'll blame Bush.

Losing Democratic Tactic #5 - Run as the "Party of Death"

From the NYT:
Mr. Schiavo flew to Connecticut last month to help Ned Lamont, who defeated Senator Joseph I. Lieberman in the Democratic primary.

What's next? Campaign ads with Kevorkian popping Mentos? Creepy.

Dream Sequence #1

Joe Liberman wins the 2006 Connecticut Senatorial contest as an independent. Once in office, Joe changes his party affiliation back to Democrat. Joe then gains support from the moderate Democrats, and wins the nomination as the 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate.

One month later the following exchange is heard at the office water cooler:
"Have you been to Kos lately?"
"Naw, what's the point."

Losing Democratic Tactic #4 - Run against (blank), not for something.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/8/15/133831/421 Matt Stoller at mydd has got it all twisted around. He's mad because people are saying the Democrats have no message. Then he goes on to lay out the great Contract with America. No, wait that was the Republicans, they fufilled their contract when a Democrat held the presidency. Anyway, he's says Bush is in charge, and infers that the Democrats would take control of congress, and do nothing but stop Bush from "screwing things up more." I love that slogan. "Put us in charge, we have almost no power!"

Losing Democratic Tactic #2 - Deny the war on terror

"[T]he war on terror cannot be won." (George Soros, Op-Ed, "A Self-Defeating War," The Wall Street Journal, 8/15/06)

Please turn out in huge numbers and vote for the "can't win" party. Now there is inspiration.

Losing Democratic Tactic #3 - Label Republicans as racist

For that matter, BobcatJH labels the whole U.S.A. as racist on DU

A nation of George Allens

Hey, everyone, did you hear? A Republican put his foot in his mouth, coming out of the closet as the racist most had suspected him to be.

...his actions only represent the latest in a long line of examples of life in Republican America.

Is Bobcat coming out of the closet as well?

Losing Democratic Tactic #2 - Deny the war on terror

Nancy Greggs From Democratic Underground:

Over the past few weeks, I keep hearing Republicans saying that it’s important for all of us, especially voters, to understand who is taking the War on Terror seriously, and who is not. Well, put me in the ‘not’ column. Actually, put me in the ‘not a snowball’s chance in hell I’m taking this seriously’ column.

This is not a parody. I've read many of Nancy's columns, and I have never seen anyone disagree with her.
Wow.

Culture of Corruption vs Weak on Terror

In the Slogan fight for 2006 congressional election, the edge goes to the Republicans. Average Joe can live with a little money being exchanged under the table. Average Joe can't live when he's, uh, dead.

Losing Democratic Tactic #1 - Mock the war on terror

Kossack SusanG contributes to the Republican 2006 Congressional effort

While we're at it, confiscate phones, all of them. Landlines, cells ... whatever. Shut down the internet.

This worked so well in 2004, 2002. Stay with what works.

Howard Dean "Tough, Smart"

Howard said he's smart. After telling us that a Democratically controlled government can fight an effective war on terror, make the middle class economically "safe", give money to kids, to go to college, build perpetual motion engines, and create a cool new planet in our solar system. I hope he is the only person left that thinks any government can give, and do, all things to all people. But then maybe he doesn't care about truth. Us grownups remember hearing this bunk from Jimmy Carter. I will give him one thing, he talked like he was absolutely convinced what he was saying was true.

Global Testing! (Is this thing on?)

The problem with the pure diplomacy route? You have to:
1) Implore the murderers to be nice.
2) Endure their attacks with stoicism ("This is the better way in the long run.")
3) Wait for the current generation to die, because they will never respect, understand, or stop killing us. ("15 years of bloodshed for a 1000 years of peace is worth it!)
4) Contiunously whisper Godot's Prayer:

"Dear Energy Force,
Please let the children of the murderers disregard the indoctrination of their parents. Make them like us.

Call to WW II Generation

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=511457

I'm sending out a plea to the World War Two generation. Remember Pear Harbor. I will cut a tiny bit of slack to the baby boomers. They did not see Neville Chamberlain declare "peace in our time." They did not see our late entry making the war longer, and costing more human lives. WWII folks please remember. Remind us we must stand together against enemies of freedom. The Allies can be victorius again.