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In reply to the discussion: Dear Obama - the past year many of us worked our asses off to help get you re-elected.... [View all]MessiahRp
(5,405 posts)Go for super populist things immediately, LET the GOP shut them down as I fully expect they will. Your new mandate? Go from there to campaign against every GOP House Member possible. If there's one thing this President hasn't done enough of, that would be campaigning for other Democrats. He doesn't have to campaign for himself anymore so start fucking doing it and solidify wins in 2014.
So do this:
Go after a major populist goal. (People will debate over which one but pick one and go... I say the JOBS Bill because that's what people want most.)
Use the Bully Pulpit and use the SOTU as well as evening press conferences to argue in favor of what you want (Bushco used evening media cut ins whenever they wanted to do something big).
When the GOP pushes back, get every available Dem out there in front of it attacking on your behalf.
When they vote against it, take the fight to the people by campaigning for their opponents in their home districts and send out the Big Dawg and Biden and anyone else you can to make it work.
Also, Citizens United is in play, let's start using interest groups to hammer them as well.
We need to fight them hard this time and make their gerrymandered redistricted seats not so safe this time around. If we can pry even a small majority of the House away, we can do enough things to really put a stamp on the country and have something serious to run on in 2016.