Raw Story says that the Marriage amendment is headed back our way again. Well, who would have thunk it? The Neocons have been getting their hats handed to them for 18 months, now they get a winner in Alito and they are back to their old tricks again.
Well, I've got some ideas for how to handle the Marriage Amendment, but I think we should also consider this an Open Thread on how YOU think Democrats should handle it.
If I had to sum up my ideas for handling the Marriage Amendment, it would be,
don't.
Don't.
- Don't let them introduce it up without interruption.
- Don't let them discuss it without interruption.
- Don't let them bring it to a vote without interruption.
- Don't.
The Democrats should pick a few key issues and use every dirty trick in the Senate book to turn attention to those issues. There are so many delays that the Democrats could take. We need a coordinated plan to have
three talking heads on
every show,
every night. From Jon Stewart to Bill O'Reilly, we need
good talking heads like Dean, Trippi, Kos, Armstrong, Cole, etc. People who will call bullshit out as bullshit. We shut down the Senate and we let people know that the reason is the Republican unwillingness to discuss:
- Rove. Plame was working on weapons of mass destruction. Rove seems to have outed her, but we don't know because they won't investigate. Because of Rove, there is enough Plutonium floating around to kill millions of Americans, and we have lost our leads as to where it is located. Rove is responsible, we need an investigation. The Republicans spent 150 hours investigating the Clinton Christmas card list, but only 5 hours investigating whether Rove was responsible for loose plutonium getting into the hands of Osama bin Laden? Also, it is time to quit talking about Plamegate, and to coin Rove as our new term. In five years it will be LobbyRove or MichiRove or TravelRove or whateverRove. And, we need to call it The Rove Affair.
- Security. The Republicans want to spend time talking about gay marriage? Let's turn the subject to security. The Republicans like to scare the people, let's take a page from their book. Over the course of the next two months, let's have every Senator and House Leader give a speech in downtown Smallville - standing on a shipping container. Bring up that this container came from overseas, where it might have been loaded with al Qaeda explosives or a nuclear bomb, but that it was never checked in this country. Let people know how much it would cost to check every container, then pull out the tax break numbers for millionaires. SCARE THE PANTS OFF THEM Tell stories about chemical weapons and what it would do to their children, about dirty bombs, about ball bearing bombs, anything gory and nasty.
Now, some topics that won't work.
Wages, healthcare, lobbying. Why? Because they aren't gutcheck issues. We need to talk about things that make soccer-mom's clench their anuses shut. Potential al Qaeda bombs or rat poison in their morning milk does that. Wages and Healthcare don't.