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.

Why the Democrats Will Win in 2010

I'm not Nate Silver at 538, nor do I have a crystal ball, but when November rolls around the Democrats will maintain the majority and get back to 60 seats in the Senate.

I realize I'm alone on this thought - most of my friends have told me.

The biggest part of a political party is the leader. The Democrats clearly have one. Big O. And we know who number two, three, and four are. Who is the face of the Republican/GOP/Tea Party?

It's not...

Michael Steele. The token black guy they pulled in to counter Obama being President - isn't working out so well. He's mired in the Bondage Club Expense scandal, he's previously been accused of overspending, he wasn't too popular to begin with, and now they want him to resign.

Sarah Palin. She quit her government job. And now Miss 'anti-Hollywood, Obama's a big fat celebrity, I'm real America' is gonna... go do a television show in Alaska when she's not contributing on Fox News.

John McCain. He was their choice for President and two years later, might not even be called back to the Senate. And he's teaming with Palin... so...

Michele Bachman. She is a Tea Partier all American kind of gal who won't fill out her Census and can't spell Amarica correctly on her website.

Liz Cheney. The daughter of the most unpopular VP ever who hears what Michele Bachman says and then makes it even crazier.

Bobby Jindal. The GOP's new face who was also a minority. Two birds. One.... Wait, I remember him making a little speech after the State of the Union and... where... Did they just send him to the back of the line?

Mitt Romney. The guy who was for Obama type health care before he was against it?

Another Bush? John Boehner? Who's left?

Whoever the Tea Party is for, the GOP will oppose and vice versa. McCain supporters don't like Palin and Palin supporters don't like McCain. Don't believe me... go to her facebook page.

I know they'll come up with someone, but with everyone chomping at the bit, the party splitting into two parties, there will be infighting and chaos. That's what happens. The Democrats will bring this up around September/October and the Republicans will defeat themselves.

On top of that, the Dems will campaign hard for their candidates. They know how two years of obstructionism will look. That whole Supreme Court decision on campaign funding - the Dems will use it. They brokered a deal with Big Pharma to pass health care... do you think there was some sort of handshake thing in a back room about supporting Democratic campaigns in the fall?

I'm not saying this is the sole reason. But if the Democrats can keep things moving, get things done, and Health Care Reform and Student Aid Reform are successful - so too will be the Democrats.

Mass Debate With Stormy Daniels

For those of you unfamiliar with her work, Stormy Daniels is a highly talented thespian for the adult entertainment company, Wicked Pictures. She also had a small role in the 40-Year-Old Virgin.

She's going to announce whether or not she will run against incumbent Senator David Vitter in Louisiana and if she does run, has a reasonable chance to win.

If Schwarzenegger and Palin can be governors, Stormy Daniels could be a Senator.

Somehow, unlike Vitter, she doesn't have an Elliot Spitzer-like sex scandal attached to her, unless you count her career. (He paid to have sex. She got paid to have sex. There might be a difference, somehow.)

She's running Republican in a traditionally red state, which encompasses the Mardi Gras mecca of the world and she already has name recognition. All she has to do at rallies is throw some beads, flash her junk, and wear a Drew Brees jersey and she's in.

Honestly, it couldn't get any worse in Washington and it might lighten up the Republican Party. It will make Faux News' collective head spin, but I'm sure the Republican Party will vet her much more than they did with Sarah Palin.

If Sarah Palin made men sit up more attentively and pay attention when she spoke, imagine what a tall, blonde, former professional sex worker with jugs the size of levies and a perky attitude will do to those pee-paws watching the evening news.

I do believe her audience will be growing.