Posted on 09/06/2005 2:44:46 PM PDT by coffee260
The Kos Kidz are doing what they do best—cold-bloodedly calculating how to squeeze political advantage out of the worst natural disaster ever to hit the United States, before the bodies are even counted: Daily Kos:
The Perfect Storm: Strategies for the Coming Weeks. (Hat tip: Kilgore Trout.)
The answer is found in all of these comments, and it is simple: a multi-pronged, multi-level strategy. What you do depends on who you are and where you are.
1. Everyone, everywhere. Find a way to help: donate money, donate supplies, open your home. whatever you can do. I read more than one poll yesterday where 40% or more had yet to do anything. If we care as much as we say we care, the donation rate among Dems and progressives must be 100%.
2. Everyday folks, inside the disaster: Share your stories, good and bad. All that is needed is the truth. If, as Haley Barbour said, the situation on the ground in Mississippi is much better than NO, we should hear that. If you were at a checkpoint and they turned away relief supplies, we should know that, too. There is nothing more powerful than first-person. (I started to put something like “Take care of yourself” at the top of this section, but everything I wrote sounded trite. In no way do I mean to imply that people affected by this tragedy should first think of politics; their first task, and our first wish, is for them to be safe and cared for. But, the country still needs to hear from them, especially if there is beginning to be a media blackout.)
3. Everyday folks, outside the disaster: Continue to raise hell. Write LTEs, contact your reps. Be direct, be concise, be respectful, but also be up front about your anger and disgust. Be sure to ask your reps, when are THEY going to speak out? As one state senator told me, “I’ve often wanted to speak out, but based on the lack of communications from my constitutients, I figured no one had my back.” Let them know we have their back.
4. Mid-level politicians: Keep the buzz growing. Begin to call for action, change, investigations. When interviewed, raise the tough questions. Start some buzz in the halls of power, even with your Repub counterparts. Focus on “competence” and “lack of national security.” And, be sure to ask the local leaders in the areas you represent, how well are WE prepared, and how do we feel about counting on FEMA after this?
5. Top-level politicians: Wait for the moment, then strike. Focus for now on the relief effort, and be quiet for now on the political ramifications. Give the nation’s anger a little more time to build. Hold back, hold on, hold it, hold it — then in one large, joint press conference (I can see Reid, Pelosi, Nagin, Blanco, and about twenty more), call for the resignation of Chertoff and Brown, and the censure of the President by Congress. List the reasons (should be a fairly hard-hitting list) and have a handout with sourcing and documentation.
If this builds like I think it might, and if we follow the steps above, it could be a political Perfect Storm.
Whoever wrote that article is pure evil.
Scum.
Der komissar has issued his marching orders!
On the backs of the blacks they are supposed to love.
LOL, they are dead, and no longer human.
This civil war is hot.
Why is anyone surprised...
And they've been, like, really succesful. No actual electoral victories or anything but absolutely stunning rhetorical flourishes.
Truth is not a friend to the left so they have to make imaginary friends.
The Daily KOmissar
Well, there's an indication of the "purity" of their motives -- kicking-in a donation for political brownie-points.
The Daily POS
I'm telling you, somewhere out there are DNC memos instructing politicos on how to milk this tragedy, and how to lie and deceive the press and the public.
Chances of any politician listening to this advice: 0%.
Little Hitlers are always looking to advance themselves and need lots of sheep to follow them. This author is one of these "Boys from Brazil".
"Give the nation’s anger a little more time to build."
At this point, the nation's anger -- actually frustration -- is probably dissipating, not growing.
One has to have a job and earn money to have anything to contribute, doesn't one? Their maximum donation rate is probably closer to 30%, even if they all cared desperately. The real donation rate from that crowd is probably 5%.
Just one problem-honest and reasonable Americans already know what the deal is..
Agreed. They're thinking is probably, "Why should I contribute to clean up a mess made by the Bush Administration?"
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