Here is a suggestion for House Democratic candidates from
Buzzflash today.
Just keep repeating: "The Republican Speaker of the House Says Working Families Don't Pay Taxes. Janice Coleman Doesn't Agree With Him, Do You?" ("Janice Coleman" represents the name of any Democratic Congressional candidate in the United States.)
Be like the Republicans in one way: find a simple message and stay with it. Use Hastert's own words in the debate over extending tax cuts for the rich.
Hastert justified the rip-off of the middle class and poor with these words: "Well, folks, if you earn $40,000 a year and have a family of two, you don't pay any taxes. So you probably if you don't pay any taxes, you are not going to get a big tax cut. Now, if you earn $1 million a year, you are going to pay about $400,000 of taxes. Maybe you'll get a $40,000 tax cut ..."
Buzzflash suggests this video:
"Hey, Marie [shown as a waitress, serving a ham and eggs breakfast], do you pay taxes? The Republican Speaker of the House says that you don't. He thinks only the wealthy need a tax break. Do you agree with him? Vote Democratic, because we know how it is to stand in your shoes. [shot of waitress taking off her shoes and rubbing her heels]" ... "Bob Williams, gas station attendant, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives says that you don't pay taxes. Had enough? Vote Democratic."
Buzzflash advises everyone to stay on the tax message and avoid wedge issues:
Hastert -- who the Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin calls "the Marie Antoinette of American politics" -- is leading an anti-working class economic policy. It's time the Democrats countered the Republican demagogic wedge issues like gay marriage, immigration, and flag burning with the economic wollop of the GOP on America's working people....Don't get sidetracked, don't get distracted, don't get sucked into peripheral issues with no voter traction. Fire the losing consultants and let Hastert give you back the House. He already has. You just need to use his own words to remove him and the GOP from running Congress.
As Buzzflash says, this might be "a simple and winning message."
NOTE: A diary by 4Freedom earlier covered the same subject. It is not on the recommended list, so I'm posting my diary on the Buzzflash editorial for readers who might have missed 4Freedom's .