Senator,
I want to thank you for the wonderful opportunity you have provided us. You know, I was getting worried there for a while that we in the netroots wouldn't have another real opportunity to flex our muscle until 2012, when we get to go to work re-electing Barack Obama with a landslide that would make the won he just won look like 1960, and finally getting rid of that new BFF of yours.
Oh sure, there is Prop 8 to repeal out in California, but honestly, that's not going to be much of a challenge at all - and that's only if it survives all of the legal challenges to even make it to the 2010 elections.
But now, we have a project. Namely, getting rid of your worthless ass. This won' be easy, but then again, neither was knocking off a former vice presidential candidate in his own primary. And, in case you didn't notice, we got that done. Even though we didn't have any practice at that sort of thing.
Now we have practice. And it won't just be the primary we beat you in. Remember, we get better and better at this each cycle. It started with Dean, when we raised all the money but couldn't make any noise in he primaries, then it was on to Lamont, where we won the primary but couldn't pull it off in the general, and then it was Obama, where we took down a party icon in the primary and won the general by a landslide.
WE'RE the ones who beat Hillary Clinton. Do you honestly think that you, Harry Reid, stand a chance? As they say in Mexico, El Oel.
As I write this people are pouring through the list of Democratic politicians in Nevada, trying to find your Ned Lamont. We'll be presented with a list of potentials, and then we'll pick the one we like the best. You'll know who he (or she) is when he breaks every Nevada state fundraising record for a candidate for Congress.
And then, before you know it, you'll be out of a job. So, enjoy these two years you've got as the most powerful man in the Senate, and the most powerful Democrat other than a President since 1968, because they are your last two years in public office.
Signed,
The new most powerful constituency in American politics