Let's All Take A Moment to Remember Mitch McConnell

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Wednesday November 07, 2012 · 7:44 AM PST

2012/11/07 · 07:44

Victorious Democrats, when you're finished savoring the fall of Karl Rove via whiskeytown's excellent diary, please take another moment to relish how Mitch McConnell must be feeling right now - you know, the ass-hat who, repeatedly over the last four years, was up-front and downright boastful about the legislative strategy of the Republican congressional caucus he helps lead:

"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

NicolasC

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Wednesday October 21, 2009 · 8:53 AM PDT

2009/10/21 · 08:53

Its been a long, hard legislative battle, this fight for comprehensive health care reform. We've had many bad days and good days, and there will be plenty more of both in these closing weeks.

But I want us all to take a quick second to survey the scene and observe something, not to get cocky or complacent, but on the contrary, so that we see how close we are to the finish line and redouble our efforts.

Folks, make no mistake about it: we are winning when it comes to the public option and passing a comprehensive, sustainable, and truly transformative reform of health care and health insurance in this country.

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Public Option:

88 votes Vote Now!

Public Option:

We are going to win this

41 votes

We are going to win this BIG

27 votes

Easy there tiger

16 votes

Big new for McCain

4 votes

Obama to GOP: "Grab a Mop." This is political gold (and we need to use it) (UPDATED w Videos)

NicolasC

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Friday October 16, 2009 · 1:35 PM PDT

2009/10/16 · 13:35

I'm sure that, like me, you can see it coming, from now through 2010.

You've banged your head against the wall hearing conservative pundits on TV complain about Obama's deficit spending as if he didn't inherit a $1.5 trillion deficit the day he took his new job, as if the vast majority of our national debt didn't accumulate under the presidencies of Reagan and W. Bush. You hear them blame Obama for job losses spurred by a financial crisis whose roots go back long before he even announced his candidacy. They even blamed him for the low Dow the day he was inaugurated, though of course with the Dow now hitting 10,000 those criticisms have long vanished.

You hear all this and it becomes clear: they want to pass their mess off as his. And the longer it takes him to clean it up, the more they think they'll be able to fool people into believing it.

NicolasC

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Saturday August 29, 2009 · 9:46 PM PDT

2009/08/29 · 21:46

The New York Times, in a whopper of a Sunday Editorial, has eloquently and forcefully come out in support of "Budget Reconciliation" in the highly likely event that the Senate Finance Committee fails to come out with a good bill capable of garnering bipartisan support.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

What is fantastic about this piece is not just the articulate case it makes for a procedure that is sure to the draw the ire of the right if implemented, but also the lucidity with which it explains, well, what the heck Reconciliation is.

Update: Many thanks for the Rec List everyone. First time. What's great about this being on the list is that the helpful comments below will get a lot of exposure. Some comments go into a lot more detail about Reconciliation and the Parliamentarian than either I or the editorial did: KateCrashes' "Alan Frumin" comment with many helpful links, for example. H/T to elziax for a spelling pointer.

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What to do?

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What to do?

Reconciliation all the way

1584 votes

Bipartisanship -- We Must Hold Out For It

17 votes

Don't know, but either way, this is good news for McCain

93 votes

Report from FLORIDA's Ground Game: Almost every D's door in Miami has been knocked and will be again

NicolasC

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 10:20 AM PST

2008/11/04 · 10:20

This is going to be quick because I'm home for a quick lunch break and heading back out for another round of GOTV, but I have to report the inspiring sights I've seen today.

As of this writing (1:00 pm), my local Obama office in Miami has knocked on every Democrat's door in our district and is heading out for rounds 2 and 3 as you read this.

The office I volunteer in was overflowing with people and based on what I've heard the other Obama offices have had similar results getting to everyone's home this morning.

More below the fold...

NicolasC

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Sunday October 05, 2008 · 2:01 PM PDT

2008/10/05 · 14:01

I know a fair number of both undecideds and unenthusiastic McCain supporters who can most certainly be persuaded to vote for Obama in November. The people I'm referring to are not low-information voters. They're intelligent and well-informed but for whatever the reason (most often, a history of voting Republican), they have not made the move to vote for Obama, despite serious misgivings about McCain.

Because these people live in Florida, where I grew up, I feel a particular urgency to persuade them this month. I've had many conversations with them of course but sometimes in the spur of the moment you leave out key arguments or don't express yourself as well as you could have.

So I decided to write it all down. MY case, well-researched and rational, but also passionate, for why Barack Obama needs to be elected the next President of the United States. It is long (under 6 pages on Word), but I lay it all out there and will be emailing it to every swing vote I know.

It is yours to read below the jump. Please feel free to send it off to your undecideds. And please feel free to send me feedback, to fact-check me if I'm wrong, and to add your thoughts.

Lets win this damn thing already.

NicolasC

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 4:25 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 16:25

I apologize that this is a short diary, but Brave New Films just emailed this video to their list and I think it does a fantastic job of capturing McCain's sheer incompetence with respect to the economy in just three minutes, using nothing but his own words.

I figure this video needs to get out there and circulate as much as possible.

So I hope on those grounds you'll forgive the brevity of this diary and start sending this video around. YouTube Link is below the fold.

NicolasC

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 10:25 AM PDT

2008/09/25 · 10:25

What follows is an attempt to coalesce a myraid of stories, ideas, and points that have been circulating on this blog in the last couple of days into a concise and forceful statement that we can collectively encourage the campaign to make as soon as possible and in so doing, I think, seal this election.

There is nothing radically new here (and if this has already been done -- I've tried to keep up with the diaries as much as possible -- I'll delete immediately), but the idea is to distill the ridiculousness of the McCain campaign the last couple of days (and by contrast the steady leadership of the Obama campaign) down to its essence. To open it up to everyone to add what is needed. And to harp on these points so Obama attacks and wins this thing once and for all.

It seems to me good ideas from the blogosphere have somehow been finding their way to the campaign and getting implemented. Whether its a coincidence and the result of strong minds thinking alike or whether the campaign pays attention, I don't know. But, follow me after the fold and share with everyone what you think. I think we're a presser away from winning this:

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Let's All Take A Moment to Remember Mitch McConnell

Public Option: Make no mistake, We are Winning (Now Keep up the Fight)

Obama to GOP: "Grab a Mop." This is political gold (and we need to use it) (UPDATED w Videos)

NYT: The Time for Reconciliation Has Come. Fantastic Editorial

Report from FLORIDA's Ground Game: Almost every D's door in Miami has been knocked and will be again

Obama for President (a piece to sway undecideds)

Let's make this viral. Brave New Films' latest on McCain & Economy

A Good Obama Presser can seal the election TODAY