Learn From Last Time Barry

If Obama wants to get Financial Reform done quickly and without the chaos that plagued Health Care reform, he has to frame his position early.

Just come out and say "This bills means NO BAILOUTS for banks in the future."

Keep repeating it over and over.

Use the line "Protecting Main Street from Wall Street."

We already hate the banks for the economic misery we are in right now. The Left and the Right. We are all angry. Bring on the reform. Force the Republicans to say "NO" to Main Street.

The American People will side with who gets Financial Reform done in November. The Democrats have leverage. They can pick up momentum moving into the elections.

If Obama was smart, he'd take a small play out of the Glenn Beck playbook. Show the American People what you're talking about. Don't use a chalkboard though. Get some nice poster board or completely confuse the Supreme Court and use a touch screen monitor from like... a computer. Show the numbers. Show the banks profits and show the income of average Americans. Done deal.

You get reform passed with momentum leading up to November or you paint the Republicans as friends of the Banks and paint them as FAT CATS in campaign ads. Who knows, maybe both.

What's Wrong With Bein' A Little Folksy?

Nothing, if you're a Democrat.

Sarah Palin, the world famous Brain to Nowhere, is riling up the Tea Party about taxes, Obama, Health Care, and how everything in the current world in which we live - is Un-American.

Well, everything except what she does and the people who support her. All of those things are Real America.

Did Real America make a cool $12 million last year? (that just wouldn't be folksy)

Real America doesn't quit their job. Real America doesn't have a show on Fox and another on Discovery.

That whole fiscally conservative idea she's preaching about... does a $100,000 speaking fee fall under that category?

She's not part of the Tea Party when it comes to finances... but is when it comes to mentality. She's leading a large group of the Republican base away from home. She's going to split the GOP in two.

[That doesn't bode well for the 2010 elections.]

Scott Brown who early on was associated with the Tea Party now won't even show up with her at a rally. He had to think of his political career and pick a side.

She's going to take the crazy to a whole new level and won't appeal to those in the political center. All the Democrats have to do is make the elections a referendum on her and the Tea Party, and they will retain their majorities.

A Referendum on the Tea Party?

Ted Deutch won the special election in the Florida last night retaining the seat for the Democrats.

He ran against Ed Lynch who was basically running for the Tea Party.

The district is highly Democratic and the office was previously held by a Democrat.

When Scott Brown won in PA, it was deemed a referendum on Health Care. Scott was going to be the magic vote to stop Health Care. Well, it passed.

I wouldn't call the win in Florida a referendum on the Tea Party, but it does prove that they aren't as popular or powerful as they think, and that their magic hopes in November for upsets and Democratic bloodshed aren't as likely either.

What's the Message???

I never expected to see a commercial on network television and afterward feel slightly violated.

I don't understand this commercial one bit. I look at Tiger and he looks at me through the TV. He blinks more than I do and he isn't that fun to look at.

Wait, to clarify there is one part I do understand.

The part where Tiger and his handlers use family members to help him make money. (i.e. His marriage to look more trustworthy and salable. Or the picture with him, Elin, and the kids... and the dog licking him. Awww how cute. Now that I think about it... I am running low on some of my Nike shit. I'll go get some more. Thanks Tiger.)

What are they selling? What's the message?

Earl asks Tiger... "did you learn anything?"  (Yeah don't piss off Radaronline.)  His father had his own transgressions. The answer is no.

The only thing Tiger learned from all of this is just don't get caught the next time.

The Hypocratic Oath

Last week Erick Erickson, a fan of the red state, said on his radio show "he'd pull his wife's shotgun" if a census worker came to his door for not returning his census.

Press Secretary Gibbs responded to a question about Erickson's comments saying they were "remarkably crazy."

What is remarkably crazy about it... is the remarkable hypocrisy.

Whether Erickson likes it or not he's an influential character for the Tea Party.

He's fueling the fire for the tea-baggers, most of them unemployed, who are angry about taxes and lack of jobs. He's setting an example to not return their census, a government project that could add as many as 700,000 jobs.

Down the road, when they complain their voices aren't being heard, are they going to be mad at Gibbs when he says, "They didn't fill out a census. We can't hear their voices because we don't know who they are."

I'm sure they won't like that or understand it either.

After all, they are a group of people mad about taxes, named after a tax revolt, that when surveyed only two percent of them understood that under Obama their taxes actually went down. For a group so heavily invested in taxation, they don't understand much about it.

But keep talking Erick, you're going to talk your way right off your new gig and add supporters to the Democratic side.

Obama's First Pitch

They talk about Obama knowing all his strengths and if he's aware of his own weaknesses.

You can judge for yourself.



He'll be much better off on the campaign trail if he avoids bowling and pitching. Just stick with your charm Barry.