"We have exhausted the use of Rush as an attention-getter"

Mark Noonan

Nothing like getting down to brass tacks:

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.

Democrats, after being reflexively political, are now going to claim that we GOPers are reflexively political. Just when you think the Democrats can’t sink any lower, down they go. And the worst part of it: for the Obamaniacs, this will all pass un-noticed. A sock-puppet collective, when Obama and Co shove it up and shake their fingers, Obama’s core supporters will be thrilled to be used in a sick, political game.

The deal here is that Obama and his Democrats are not so much trying to gain support for Obama’s asinine and destructive policies but, instead, trying to make the GOP so odious that when the wheels come off the Obama Express, the voters will become apathetic rather than turn to the GOP. Always keep in mind that for Democrats is doesn’t matter how you win, just as long as you win – and if they can win by continuing to poison the political atmosphere, they’ll do it. And, as a matter of fact, its probably the only thing they’ve got left – remember, their politics of personal destruction worked against President Bush. You just relentlessly attack everything the other side does, never give an inch and allow a friendly MSM to fly cover for you.

Can we thwart them? Yes, but it will be difficult – and it will take fresh leadership in the GOP willing to go toe to toe every day, in every way, with the Democrats along with a complete GOP turn-away from the MSM. We can’t win on their field – but the “Tea Party” movement shows that we can win on our field, which is genuine grass roots efforts to bring real change to government. We go to the people, we’ll clobber these corrupt and dishonest Democrats from Obama on down.