Posted on 03/14/2009 4:40:28 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Beginning Sunday, the White House will harness every part of the Democratic Party’s machinery to defend President Obama’s budget and portray Republicans as reflexively political, according to party strategists.
A participant in the planning meetings described the push as a successor to Democrats’ message that Rush Limbaugh is the Republican Party leader. “We have exhausted the use of Rush as an attention-getter,” the official said.
David Plouffe, manager of Obama’s presidential race, helped design the strategy, which includes the most extensive activation since November of the campaign’s grassroots network. The database—which includes information for at least 10 million donors, supporters and volunteers—will now be used as a unique tool for governing, with former canvassers now being enlisted to mobilize support for the president’s legislative agenda.
Others involved in the planning included White House senior adviser David Axelrod; the DNC chairman, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine; and DNC Executive Director Jennifer O'Malley Dillon.
The plan follows the private complaints of some Democrats that Obama let the GOP get the better of him during the debate over pork in the budget bill he just signed, and growing concerns among some Democrats that charges of big spending could stick to the president.
Starting this week, President Obama will be “engaging directly with Congress more, and speaking more forcefully on behalf of his budget,” a top adviser said.
On Sunday morning, three top White House officials will appear on network interview shows to describe brighter days ahead for the nation’s economy, and make the case that the budget is an important part of the president’s overall recovery plan.
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Naaaa! cant happen
Their strategy will fail on empty wallets.
Translation: They got burned and are moving to easier targets. ;-)
So basically they are admiting that this adminstration is engaging in a propaganda campaign?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
You can bet that Joe "Plugs" Biden won't be one of them....unless they are even more stupid than I thought.
so that's, where those (tens) billions for ACORN went... 
The Democrat party: the ‘Party of Mo’
More money but not more wealth
More spending but not more jobs
More stimuli but not more results
The Democrat party puts the crat in the national money mattress saved up for payback bureaucrats and presidential pandering.
It’s too bad our guys are unarmed.
And there you have the real plan. All those supposed millions of minions have nothing on the LMSM and the role they will play. In the end the same suspects will lose more market share and slowly lose even more of their power to push the Dems across every finish line.
Yup, their strategy will fail on the empty wallets of the Chinese, the Japanese and the Tax the Taxpayers to Death Americans.
because Limbaugh was right: you get more flies with honey than vinegar. Who knew? So we will try it Limbaugh's way and see if that works in our favor. Because we don't quite know what we are doing. And are starting to become concerned that maybe this Rush to Socialism might not be the key to power like we thought...
Rush is kicking their butts.
The libs are pretty damn good at organizing and projecting a high powered program of both offense and defense in the area of public opinion.
Rather unlike the feckless bumbling that the GOP has been doing since 06.
And continues to do to this day.
We need organizations all fighting together to win here, but the present day K street boys still really don't have a clue why disaster after disaster has befallen them.
After each one, they pull together only to agree that they need to become even more like the Liberal lite loons that have eaten their collective lunch, only punctuated from time to time by solitary voices lifted amidst the utter confusion.
Hence, they came to the point of nominating someone so far out of touch with real conservative values that he could not even make a decent showing against a black, muslim, marxist, far left Kenyan named hussein, with virtually zero experience or qualifications, simply because that was the best organized prospect that they could muster.
Frankly, I am appalled.
“On Sunday morning, three top White House officials will appear on network interview shows”
The hosts of the shows?
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