The mistakes of the general public as they work to organize themselves politically are more fruitful than the clever plans of political strategists, a German antiwar activist once wrote. (After her parliamentary colleagues voted for a war budget, she said: "There are only two men left in our party - me and Clara Zetkin.")
Rep. Rahm Emanuel is telling Democratic party leaders to "continue to ratchet up the pressure on Bush" on Iraq. Sen. Majority Leader Reid is co-sponsoring a bill that "would cut off funding for the Iraq war within a year and set a hard deadline for withdrawing troops," a move that "will give a bright green light to other members...making it harder to satisfy the party's base with anything less than a hard timeline for withdrawal," writes Lois Romano in the Washington Post.
But check out this video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cAChVVVZaM.
Talk about supporting the troops! Put this woman in charge of strategic communications immediately. (Warning: younger viewers will find this particularly enchanting. There's no nudity or profanity - nothing you couldn't broadcast on the public airwaves in 2007 - but Anthony Comstock would not have approved.) ...
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