Reply #59: EXCELLENT!!!

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EXCELLENT!!!!

I think these people ought to start facing major lawsuits on all fronts. Starting with breitbart and moving straight on to anyone and everyone opening their yap on Pox Noise. limbaugh too. ANYBODY. Smother them with lawsuits. Plague them with lawsuits. Suffocate them with legal grief.

It will cost them, or somebody, money and extra time and effort and trouble and inconvenience with the inevitable fundraisers that will be mounted. Might be nice to tie up more of the koch brothers' (or their ilk's) money defending or helping to defend stuff like this. Maybe that'll be a few pennies less spent on commercials and stuff, or on squadrons of lawyers all battling to find ways to dance around further damage and vulnerability. They'll have to pay all those lawyers. Think of all that overtime!

Yes, breitbart and others will have to turn to these major donors and people who've up til now had a wide open field in which to roam around and indulge and splurge. Used to be, they could dump all their money into buying lobbyists; buying senators and congressmembers and presidents; and ad time on radio, TV, and in print/online.

I'd like to see some of that river of money diverted off into having to defend umpteen brazillion lawsuits, large and small. The DNC needs to sue. Glenn Greenwald needs to sue. EVERYONE who's aggrieved in some way needs to sue. It can't be left only to People for the American Way and/or a couple of other organizations. Class action suits and individual suits.

Seems to me we (or our professional strategists) should be thinking of All Kinds of Other Ways to divert the enemy's funds and energies and distract their focus. My kid and his bandmates have all these big ideas of how to spend some of their earnings, which aren't that much but could help go toward some equipment and such that they actually do need. Well, on their last tour that just ended, they discovered something elsee they should be doing with that money instead: emergency car repairs. The van died. Now, whatever other plans they already had are on hold. GRANTED the koch brothers and other major league people and institutions are many multiples of millions bigger. But wouldn't it be strategically interesting to add to their load? They're juggling a few things now as is, with some more to come as campaign season heats up. Why don't we throw MORE at 'em? Make 'em reactively catch. Make 'em dodge. Make 'em work harder. Keep adding to their load so they have to carry more. Tire them out faster. As my karate teacher used to say in sparring class - "keep 'em busy."

After all, with all this serious new need that's been generated, they will inevitably have to add to their overhead - more people or lobbyists or consultants will have to be hired, along with their staffs and expenses, and overhead. Meetings will take longer and the attendees will soon be living with a feeling of overwhelm. More staffers and assistants and errand-runners who all need to put gas in their cars and ... well, you see how expenses can mushroom. And it's not just monetary either. It's intangibles. Stress. Distraction. Too many juggle balls to have to keep airborne. After awhile, you reach critical mass and it's stopped, or crippled, or so hamstrung and bloated and top-heavy that nobody can keep it under control anymore. They reach overwhelm. Energy overwhelmed, short-circuited, slowly but steadily depleted. Momentum slowed, or even stopped.

I've always found it striking that our side (Dems/liberals/progressives) seems ALWAYS under seige. From EVERY direction. They come at us from all over everywhere, in venues large and small, forcing us on defense and in reactive mode all the frickin' time! Whether it's sarah palin gnawing at our psyche from one end to the butt-inskis in the "heartland" trying to redefine rape, to all the crap going on in Arizona, to the US Chamber, EVERYWHERE. From within the courts to the Civil War discussion in your kid's new textbook. They're like gnats on a dirty beach. What I find myself asking is - WHY is that all going in one direction only? Why can't we start hitting them back in like manner, on all sides, all fronts, all venues large and small, in and out of government, everywhere we can think of? Make them react. Put them on the defensive. Throw them off their game and fuck with their heads as far as their visions of their own invincibility (versus vulnerability - which would be on the rise for them). Make 'em wake up every morning reaching for the Maalox bottle.

I wonder what took Ms. Sherrod so long. This should have happened as soon as his case publicly fell apart, when the iron was hot. And a pile-on should have started from there. Every knuckle-dragger commentator and editorialist and other assorted hyenas who furthered it and gave it aid and comfort. There was no cost for doing so. Financial or other cost. There was no serious or painful or meaningful price to or penalty pay. People on our side went tsk-tsk-tsk. But nobody actually got up and came after breitbart and his little pals. He should have been sued for EVERYTHING he owned. Maybe if you have to fight a gawdawful lawsuit and appeals and for who knows how long, you'll think twice the next time you decide you're gonna hatchet some Democrat's career. They need to have one of those "Doctor, it hurts when I do that" moments. (Solution? "Don't do that!")

None of these assholes ever has to pay ANY serious price for doing this stuff. Maybe that's one of the key reasons why these assholes can continue to do shit like this with impunity. And of course they hide behind the First Amendment, claiming their God-given right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Boycotts that cost them some advertisers aren't enough. I hope that now changes with andrew breitbart. It should hurt when he does that.

Sorry this is so long. Just rambling. But I'd truly truly love seeing more people from somewhere on our side actively and even aggressively working to "keep 'em busy."