Attack Ass
Interesting exchange as Chris Cillizza at WaPo’s The Fix says the Dems need a high-profile attack dog on health-care to counter in the GOP pushback.
The DNC’s Kicking Ass blog says no they don’t.
The DNC is of the opinion that they haven’t lost the message war, and in a bit of a confused ramble, says Palin and Steele have been debunked but no one’s paying attention to them, anyway. Yaps on about death panels and Medicare scares, but fails to note the biggest problem, which is that the public option is headed down the toilet and taking the whole game with it … actual legislative support for reform has been peeling off left and right.
Anyway, the DNC may have a point it doesn’t bother to make. Who needs an attack dog when you have a friendly media doing your bidding? Also, when you have comedians, columnists, congressmen and ex-presidents will to call people racists for you.
The DNC could quit while it was ahead … but never does … so the blog post goes on to cite a bunch of polls that show incremental increases in support for health-care reform, basically since the public option went off the rails and also, everyone stopped talking about it. The fact that most of the numbers are in the vincity of or well below 50 percent doesn’t really advance the DNC argument much.
Excuse me, back up a sec. The DNC calls its blog Kicking Ass? Kind of crass. Maybe it’s a double-entendre on an ass that kicks, you know, the donkey thing. But I notice its blogroll links to some of the foulest mouthed bloggers out there, for whom “ass” references are about as mild as it gets, so maybe being foul mouthed is being taking hold as a substitute for political discourse after all.
What the DNC needs is an attack ass. Second thought, nah, they have plenty of those already.
Looks like GOP’s blog is getting a rebuild, BTW. Doesn’t have any kind of cool “ass” title. A bit of unsolicited advice while you’re redesigning, GOP. Steer clear of anything that involves … ass.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:17 pm Comments (0) on Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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