I doubt the Obama campaign will do it.

I'm not sure if any of the obvious 527 types will do it (Moveon? Votevets? Who?)

I sincerely doubt the DNC has the cojones for it.

But, for the love of god, SOMEONE has to get this guy on the air.

I'm just some dumbass who reads liberal blogs constantly. I don't know how. But I bet this community does. There has to be a way. An ad campaign, viral video, anything, SOMETHING.

This is what Republicans do and do not flinch and do not look back.

We can do it too. If nobody else will, we have to. I don't know how else to put it. Can we draw on the expertise of the assembled crowd? How do we get Philip Butler from a blog story into the overarching narrative of the next couple weeks?

I don't know either. But maybe you do. If you do have insight to lend, lend it here. Please. I'm in for the first thousand dollars. I bet there's a lot of me. Who can lead the charge?

See below the fold for just a taste of the background on this story already starting to percolate out there. It's great, but we must do better.

Post partisan my ass! That MIGHT be a good theme as a campaign strategy. It MIGHT appeal to an electorate tired of the incompetent,  ineffectual and just plain stupid brand of government they have been getting for the last ten years....you know, since the incredibly partisan impeachment of Bill Clinton by the Republican Congress....

It might sound ... nice ...and evenhanded and reasonable and mature and responsible and all that. But it ignores the simple and undeniable fact that since the Republicans lied, cheated and smeared (including smearing their current champion when he was running against Bush) their way into having full unfettered dominance of the government.....just about everything that could go wrong has gone wrong and the country is in sad, sorry shape.

Because of the Republicans.

Everything the Republicans has touched in the last decade has turned to crap. From the micro (life saving stem cell research) to the macro (Climate Crisis) the Republicans have had full power to implement their vision, programs and policies....and have gotten it wrong every single time.

Off with your tin-foil hats, lefties.  Bush ain’t gonna find sanctuary in Paraguay no more.  It’s his own fault really, because he failed to put freedom and democracy on the march down there.  It’s hard work to be President.  So many wars; so little time.

It's been said that if John McCain succeeds in making this election "about Obama," McCain may stand a chance of winning.

And it seems to be a political truism that the ability to define one’s opponent is crucial on the national stage, and one in which Republicans have excelled in years past, in terms of always being able to come up with a way to paint their opponent, whomever it may be, as somewhat "out of step’ with average Americans (sometimes with the unintentional assistance of the Democratic nominees themselves, and despite that the Republican nominee is almost always even further out of step and divorced from the realities of average, everyday, working citizens of this country, but the Democrats have never let that minor fact distract them from their efforts to...go on the defensive, time and again ((sorry, but as a devout Democrat, some hopefully constructive criticism is always good to keep in mind as we go forward, in my humble opinion)).

There it is again!  McCain questions Obama's judgment.  It was a  drum beat on NPR today.  It is ridiculous.  George Lakoff must be screaming about it and I am unable to resist  ranting here!  How does he question Obama's judgment?   John McCain is promising that he can bring us victory!  Yup, for the first time in world history if we elect this man he will bring us victory in the occupation of another country!  He did not tell us what that meant.  Incidentally, he framed it as a "war".  But GWB declared the war over some years ago.  We are into an occupation.  Just a while ago we had an increase in our occupying forces.  The people who said the war was over some time ago called this increase in troop levels a "surge".  Today John McCain said that Obama lacks judgment because he still fails to acknowledge the success of the surge.  These are the front lines of the framing wars and Lakoff has warned us about them.  It seems that the warning that we can only lose the debate by accepting their framing still needs to be understood.  Look below the break and let's try again.

It seems like Republican House members have decided that they'll have a better chance at reelection if they don't remind voters back home of their existence. We've seen it during this August recess while they flocked to the floor to play at being Congressmembers over drilling instead of hanging out in their districts having to deal with real constituents and real issues.

Now they've announced that they want to stay in DC all fall if that's what it will take to get a drilling bill through.

House Republicans said Monday they would refuse to consider any energy bill that came straight to the floor from the Democratic leadership’s offices, rather than working its way through committee markups — a process that can take weeks or months.

Granted, there's safety in numbers, and they like each other better than anybody else--particularly their constituents -- like them. But this would suggest they really are afraid of voters.

It also suggests that any need to find "compromise" with them on the part of House Democratic leadership is bullshit.

CQPolitics came out with an article today about how the House Republicans don't really want the Democrats to directly answer the energy crisis by immediately bringing a bill to the House floor. Instead those damn Republicans want us to do it through the normal committee process so they can delay the process until the November election:

Asher Heimermann, 14, writes about Jerome Corsi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Madrasah (Arabic: مدرسة, madrasa pl. madāris مدارس) is the Arabic word for any type of school, secular or religious (of any religion).
The Republicans have their own madrassa- their "school" is the airwaves, television, presidential bully pulpit and news outlets.  What is the curriculum and the religion of the  Republican madrassa ?  

Hatred for all things liberal.

For Kossacks, it's not news that a John McCain presidency would be a disaster for working people. The McCain agenda -- more tax cuts for the rich, privatization of Social Security, and war without end -- would mean  the next four years would be just as disastrous for the American Dream as the last eight have been.

But McCain -- and the corporate interests that support him -- don't want Americans to know about the real McCain record. They're ready to do whatever it takes to sell Americans on a false image of McCain and bury the real McCain record deep underground.

Well, working people know a line of bull when they see it. And today nine workers set out on a campaign to call out John McCain for who he really is.

(Learn more and hear some hard questions for John McCain -- and learn how to submit your own! -- after the jump...)

Yesterday afternoon, I received a phone call from the Republican Party. Since I am a registered Republican, they wanted to know who my choice for President was. I have to say, this was the most entertaining conversation I’ve had in a long time.

Here is how the conversation went (it’s not verbatim, just going off of what I remember, near the end, it’s almost perfect!)

FROM LEFT: Kay Warren (wife of Pastor Rick Warren), Cindy McCain, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, at the Compassion Forum. (Associated Press)

Do you remember that song, "Drop Kick Me Jesus?" I think it was by Bobby Bare.
I'm going to look it up, because for some reason this photo makes me think of it.

Ok, this will probably get torn to shreds, and my feelings will not be hurt.

The point I hope to make in this diary:
Due to advances in technology and culture no matter who is president their actions will be attacked/and viewed as an impeachable offense by 1/2 the population.

It started with Nixon and has gotten more pronounced as time has gone on.

I doubt it is because the quality of the presidents has gotten any better or worse. I mean they've always been pretty constant, I would think.

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The Republicans are trying to use the low approval ratings of Democrats in Congress, gay issues, gun laws and abortion for political gain again this election cycle.

I think it's important to remind folks that having a majority of ONE with at least one Independent spying on the Dem's plans (Lieberman), with a Republican president who promises to veto any bill he doesn't like - makes it extremely difficult to solve ANY problem.

I’ve done a bit of writing over the past couple of years about election integrity issues, election fraud, voter suppression and the "gaming the system from the inside" that has been the republican party’s modus operandi since 2000 when it comes to stealing elections in various forms.

And right on cue - even since the anti-voter voter ID laws that were recently passed in Indiana (and almost passed in Missouri), we are seeing, as my good buddy dday is referring to as the "new battleground" - that big bad boogyman of "voter fraud".

Conservatives have always supported affirmative actions and quotas.

They believe that lesser able, lesser qualified individuals who are part of their ideology should get perks and positions that better able, better qualified individuals have earned.

They do not believe in competition, they believe in a rigged caste system.

Here are some permutations below.

Yes, you read that right ...

This commentary was written by B. Edwards, an American and professor abroad.

The current frenzy over the extra-marital affair of John Edwards brings to light some interesting facets of the American political scene. Why in all the hubbub of news and events is the most popular point of media interest whether John Edwards has an illegitimate son or not? What stokes the desire to feed upon this man's misdeed?

One obvious answer is the Republican political machine, which like the Democratic one seeks to capitalize on any advantage it can get to win elections.  Elections have become major displays of the power of quantification, with every single element being weighed by a cadre of analysts seeking that one extra percentage point to tip their boss into power.