Democrats to Launch PR Blitz on Iraq Vote

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http://www.rollcall.com/issues/52_75/news/16882-1.html

Democrats to Launch PR Blitz on Iraq Vote

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
February 6, 2007

Following Republicans’ successful filibuster of a resolution opposing President Bush’s handling of the Iraq War, Senate Democrats are launching a national public relations campaign aimed at tying GOP moderates and incumbents facing difficult 2008 re-election races to Bush in the public’s mind, Democratic leadership aides said Monday.

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[iconoclastic cat]

1. ah HA! nt

[Dr.Phool]

2. Oh goody! Just what we need. More PR.

How about some balls and some action? Or are we afraid of offending some Repukes because they might call us names?

[Sagan]

4. How do you take action without the votes?

It's not like the Dems have 75 seats in the Senate.

If the Repugs want to tie up every single thing the Dems want to do in the Senate, they can. That's the reality. Making the 2008 vulnerable Repugs more fearful is really the best tactic for now.

[rocktivity]

7. DING DING DING! Sagan, you're our grand prize winner!

Making the 2008 vulnerable Repugs more fearful is really the best tactic for now.

We have to turn everything they do into a nail in their coffin for '08, which will only help the Dem Presidental candidate, because there will be 21 GOP seats up for re-election. If that's the only real weapon we have (and given the MSM, even that's not saying much), then we need to follow up the 50-state strategy with a 21-seat strategy starting NOW!

:headbang:
rocknation

[PerceptionManagement]

9. rocknation is right. Make the failure in Iraq make people think repub failure

failure = repub = iraq = corruption = incompetence. Marry the repubs to iraq. True love Forever.

Oh yea, Joe Lieberman can blow me.

[MrPrax]

11. So the democrats should do

nothing because it makes the Republicans' look bad? The Iraq war should be a strategy? For what? To perhaps elect a Democratic President and Congress, so they can either a) end the war or b) deliver the newest largest budget in American history with a democratic 'surge'?

Great plan -- just dump the whole thing BACK into the Republicans' hands for 2008...!!!

So basically the democratic party is on hiatus while 3 or more people wander around panhandling, saying stupid shit (of course any Prez wannabes' missteps will go 'viral' on a slow news day), then seized by the Echo Chamber as leverage against sitting democrats and other candidates ... about how they are 'going' to do something, sometime in early 2009 about Iraq...

Go Hillary and the other fellers!!

:eyes:

[knight_of_the_star]

13. Dead wrong there

Until we can get at least 60 votes consistently on anything going into the Senate, we won't get ANYTHING done. We have to make the thugs who voted for cloture who come up in '08 afraid of their own voters, tie them to Bush, and hammer them in the press. We have to make them afraid if we want to get things done, afraid of losing their jobs.

[MrPrax]

17. Your best shot is...

'process'.

Whose 'we'?

The inconsistency includes 'democrats', so your statement makes little or no sense...

(People were posting this crap weeks before the last election here...?)

[peacebird]

3. Warners office says his vote was to allow an open debate on Iraq

:eyes:
I replied his resolution was smoke and mirrors and when push came to shove, party loyalty trumped loyalty to the troops.
:grr:
Warners office is inundated with phone calls - took 20 minutes to get through.

[KansDem]

6. It's about time...

I heard some Repub this AM on NPR whining on about "minority rights" for the GOP. HA!!! I said to myself, where were "minority rights" when the Dems were forced to hold hearings in the basement of the Capitol when they were in the minority? F**k these whiny hypocrites!!!

I applaud your success in relaying your disappointment to Sen. Warner. I would do the same, except when you've got Sens. Sam "I'm running for POTUS as more 'to the right' than Bush Jr." Brownback and Pat "'Second Phase' of the 9/11 Commission Report? What 'Second Phase' of the 9/11 Commission Report?" Roberts, it would be an exercise in futility.

[fooj]

12. Glad to hear it. I hope his phone rings off the hook all f*cking day!

[Strawman]

16. So he didn't vote no for the same procedural reason as Reid?

I know Reid voted no in order to allow himself to call for another vote on this later per Senate rules.

Is he part of the "let's vote on the funding" Republican crowd now, or is this a strategic procedurally motivated move?

[w4rma]

5. Good tactics. (nt)

[Solly Mack]

8. As they should...in fact, any in Congress who refuse to fight to end

the crime that is Iraq should be linked continuously with Bush.

[theaudacity]

10. Mark my words. If a Republican leads an effort to impeach the president, he sews up reelection

It is sad when the best tactic to use against a political party is to tie them to their leader. That might mean it is time for a changing of the guard.

[demo dutch]

14. Not much else they can do, so take it to the American people!!

[Frances]

15. Agree

It's amazing to me how so many people including some posters here on DU don't understand how the Senate works. You need 60 votes in the Senate to get things done. There are only 50 Democrats. If all the Republicans stick together as they did on the war vote, then the Democrats can NOT act. The right thing to do is to get the constituents of 10 Republicans to tell their Senator to vote for the best interest of the country, not the best interest of Bush.