"White House is preparing to go on offense against Mitch McConnell"

[Clio the Leo]

* With the showdown over financial reg reform intensifying, signs are everywhere that Dems are taking a dramatically different approach to this fight than the one they used last time around. They’ve drawn a line in the sand far earlier in the process. They’re not mouthing platitudes about bipartisan compromise or pretending that it’s a realistic possibility.

And above all, they’re projecting an uncharacteristically strong (for Dems, anyway) sense that they really think they’ve got the upper hand. Whether it’s true or not, they’re acting like they know they’re going to win.

* A Dem party source emails that the White House is preparing to go on offense against Mitch McConnell and the “lies he’s spreading on Wall Street reform. We’re not about to let them get away with planting the seeds of these bogus claims with the public the way they did for a time on health reform.”

* The first salvo: this new video lampooning McConnell’s echoes of Frank Luntz.

Video here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOs47bKTZZs

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-republicans/the-morning-plum-113/

[NJmaverick]

1. Hit them hard and hit them fast

don't let the repuke lies take root.

[Clio the Leo]

2. We need some theme music...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSvStbfSSLI&feature=fvst

[glowing]

3. I don't really trust Dodd on this one.. If they put the Consumer Financial Protection

Agency in the Federal Reserve, it won't have teeth. That private set of banks needs oversight badly.

[Donnachaidh]

5. oversight and FULL SUNLIGHT.

The Fed needs to be cleaned out and checked through. It's been a banksters playground too f*cking long.

[glowing]

11. It is literally private banks controlling our economy. I personally wish, not to sound like

Ron Paul, that the Federal Reserve would be dissolved. The United States should not be beholden to private banks who adjust interest willy nilly and helped to create this housing boom/ bust nightmare. If the US controlled its own money, we wouldn't be in hoc to the private banksters.

[Donnachaidh]

12. totally agree with you! And it's got nothing to do with Ron Paul

I just wish some of our own people had the BALLS to call for it's demise. IIRC Kucinich might have - but isn't he the only one?

[msongs]

4. give everything away up front, settle for even less - will it be another obamacare bill lol ?

[FSogol]

6. Just put some cupcakes on the table!

[rurallib]

7. Be nice if there were some media outlets that would play them

What with the media being held in just a few hands they can make a story disappear into thin air - or make it the most important thing since the wheel.
And all those hands that own the media hate the democrats and have a vested interest in stopping bank reform.

[iceman66]

8. It's about time!

Should have been the strategy from day one.

[patrice]

9. If it were I, I'd be damn sure to make a clear example of what happens to LIARS.

[old mark]

10. It's about fucking time - get Boner, too.....nt

[Phx_Dem]

13. POW!! Right in the kisser!

:rofl:

[political_Dem]

14. Thank goodness. The Dems are putting on their boxing gloves. That makes me happy.

:fistbump:

[quiet.american]

15. Yes, I've noticed this, too. It makes for a very nice change.

How long did Obama go on and on last summer naming Grassley as one who was committed to healthcare reform and who was working in good faith on it, even as Grassley was widely seen on video reading from prepared comments about how Obama was going to kill Grandma?

I'm glad to see Dem leadership not wasting time on that sort of thing this time around. The Republicans have been given ample opportunity to show their ass. They have and now it's time to just get on with things.

[Arkana]

16. Hit 'em over and over again until they beg you to stop.

Then bring out the baseball bats and hit 'em some more.

I'm glad the Democrats are being hardliners on this--it's exactly what's called for.

[Cha]

17. Listening to mitch mcconnell (and believe me..

I don't do that very often..in fact never)..it seems obvious to me that he would have to grab on to a talking point from a repuke pollster and practice that in the mirror until he had it down pat and could repeat it twice.

[Doctor_J]

18. I'll believe it when I see it

They haven't stood up to the 23% yet.

[BlooInBloo]

19. "Endless taxpayer bailouts" = "death panels". Glad to see they've learned something.