Well here it is Friday, the end of another week of wit and wizdom from some of the DUmp's finest and what better capstone than this gem?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002609416
pampango (11,387 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
WaPo The Plum Line: The trap Democrats are laying for Mitt Romney
The emerging Democratic strategy is to find popular issues that Republican Members of Congress oppose, and to force votes on them. The goal: To try to make Mitt Romney choose between either appearing ideologically extreme or risking conflict within his own party.
Here’s why this strategy could work: Perceptions of ideological extremism are one of the few factors that influence voter perceptions of challengers, as George McGovern and Barry Goldwater discovered. So Romney presumably wants to move to the center on as many issues as possible, including the ones Democrats are pushing. And yet this isn’t easy, because Romney doesn’t want a civil war to break out in the GOP.
Dems are currently pushing votes on no less than three major issues, all of which are designed to force Romney to make difficult choices.
First up: The student loan rate extension. Romney has already committed to Barack Obama’s position on this one, but House Republicans are reluctant to go along.
Next: The Violence Against Women Act, where Republicans in Congress have objected to reauthorization if modest Democratic changes are included.
And after that, the Senate will be taking up the “Paycheck Fairness†bill, which covers discrimination against equal pay for women.
Each of these is apt to be highly popular, and yet in each case Congressional Republicans are expected to oppose the bills as proposed. A fourth possible vote, Chuck Shumer’s legislative push to undo the Arizona immigration law if it survives the Supreme Court, may be less generally popular, but might become a key issue for Latino voters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-trap-democrats-are-laying-for-mitt-romney/2012/04/24/gIQA6xzXeT_blog.html
Romney probably wants to move as far to the center as the republican base will allow. We should make that as painful a process as possible.54
I really need to work on my 3D Chess picture, maybe today I will get some time.
LynneSin (85,009 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. Obama is like a fricking chess master
He's already got the next 10 moves plotted and knows exactly how to trip his opponents.
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'course on needs a spiffy to start the day, right Uncle Joe?
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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 10:57 AM
Uncle Joe (22,864 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
23. Legalizing cannabis would be a good one to put in line.
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Let us distinguish between which party wants to represent the for profit prison industry and which one wants to represent the best interests of the American People.
Thanks for the thread, pampango.
Now where is that really kool pic of Doobie Obama?
