The Taft Hartley anti union law became Law over the veto of Harry Truman in June of 1947. And yet in the 1948 elections we democrats today could learn a lot from the campaign of that year. As you probably know Harry Truman compained on a "do nothing congress" and in other words "gave 'em hell". The Democrats won 75 seats in congress and I looked at the state by state map of congressional gains that year and there were massive victories and smaller victories, and some states remained unchanged in party affiliation. But in no state, not one, did the Republicans have a net gain in that state's representation in the next Congress. And just to compare this with the present - the Democrats this year only need eighteen seats in the house to take over leadership of the House of Representatives. That means there's no more John Boehner and we can introduce and push whatever bills we want. As you also know the Democrats would have to lose six senate seats and pick up NO seats of their own, in order to lose the US Senate. This would mean if they pick up two seats they'd have to lose at least eight others. Let's look at the demographics of the 2012 presidential election. The Blacks voted for Obama 94 to 6 percent. The republicans won't do that well with the Blacks next time out because either Mc Cain or Romney is "too liberal for them" and they want to take Rush Limbaugh's advice and go hard core conservative, and Rush believes that is the secret to winning. Of course Rush also approves of voting down this meager border security appropriations bill that John Boehner held congress over to vote on it. The vote failed. Congress went on vacation for over five weeks - - having done nothing on immigration reform, or minimum wages, or firearms regulations or unemployment. These are all good campaign issues for democrats to run on. In terms of age- - - forty appears to be the demarcation line as to whether a group voted for Obama. In terms of income- this is the most obvious distinction and the line seems to be around fifty thousand per household. Only 27 percent of Latinos voted for Romney- - as well as "other minority races". In terms of Religion - - Catholics went for the President by a margin of two percent and most other religions such as Jewish, Muslem or "other religions" or no religion- - voted for the President. Of Evangelical Christians - which according to this source comprise 26 percent of the population - - only 21% voted for the President- - and the rest went for Romney. Clearly we can write off this 26% as pretty much unreachable. The tea party may not like it but the vast majority of Jews voted for the President over Romney. The biggest surprise came with educational level. It isn't the "bub-bah" vote we need to be afraid of. Contrary to Rick Santorum's remarks about "College graduate snobs" four year graduates were the ONLY educational bracket that went for Romney- - over other categories such as "some college" High School graduate- - or even college postgraduates. In terms of age the over 65 age group voted for Romney the most strongly. Cities of over 500,000 people voted overwhelmingly for the President. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to deduce that in all the categories the democrats are gaining in- - - these are growing- - and the demographics that support the Republicans- - these are all shrinking, "withering on the vine" to quote Newt Gingrich". But a lot of these people "know better". They went through college. But take kind of a Samantha Brady stance tword "knowledge" to quote from the AC DC song. "What I need I stash, what I don't I trash". This is the MO of FOX News for sure. It's almost like they view their time in college the way they view that gay sexual encounter they had when they were younger. They file it under "Things that will not be spoken of". It's so nonsensical what they say it's hard to keep track of. Sarah Palin regards this law suit as a "Weak, half way measure against Obama- - and they are too weak to go for Impeachment". But now they accuse the democrats of bringing up impeachment (again - try to follow this logic) the Democrats, they say, are "ginning up talk of Impeachment to try and get their base to turn out and vote for democrats on election day". What strikes me funny about this remark is that the Republicans obviously have their mind on impeachment themselves- - or they wouldn't care whether the Senate went Republican or not. After all it will make no difference in terms of legislation. The ONLY gain the Republicans would derive from a Republican Senate- - would be in the case of convicting the President in an impeachment trial. John Boehner says on one hand that the President has exceeded his Constitutional authority. But will he get a vote passed that streamlines all this "processing' of the refugees on the border? No he will not. And now John Boehner says by way of response "The President is just going to manage this on his own using his executive authority". You can't follow these people. They say they don't like "corporate welfare" and yet isn't making fast food workers and Wall Mart employees go on food stamps in essence "government subsedy for low employee wages?" Now they are saying they want the import-export Bank to not be renewed because "It's the ultimate Corporate welfare". So how did President go from being a Bill Ayres worshipping communist - to somebody in favor of corporate welfare? I can't follow them. And I'm pretty smart and try to fend my way through all their codes and half baked sentense fragments like Rush Limbaugh uses. Rush reminds me of some frustrated teenage boy talking to a high school counselor how come he has so much problem talking to girls- - and after listening to him you know why? This is how it is with Rush. The tea party say they believe in Free Markets- - but yet as Norman Goldman points out today Clear Channel is subsedizing these far right radio programs such as Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity because in a free market they could not survive financially on their own. I think each and every one of these hypocracies need to be pointed out by Democratic candidates to the prospective voters. Of course the biggest make or break issue is of course voter turn out- - and the Republicans will move heaven and earth to keep those numbers as small as possible. If they get what would ammount to a normal four-year turnout, they know they're sunk.
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GET PUNKED (Going after the counter-culture vote)
Blind Melon Chitlin (Chich and Chong)
The Rye or the Keiser (Al Yankivic)
I Want To be Sedated (Ramones)
I'm OK They'll Never Take Me Away (1966 follow-up)
Let's Lynch the Landlord (Dead Kennedies)
Hat Lava (B '52's)
Teenage Enema Nurse (Killer Pussy)
Ain't We Crazy (another moldy oldie)
Mongoloid (Devo)
Beat On the Brat (Ramones)
Anarchy in the UK (Sex Pistols)
Drug Me (Dead Kennedies)
Pico and Sulpivida (classic demento)
Wiggly World (Devo)
When You're A Blonde (Julie Brown)
My Girl's Pussy
Friendly Neighborhood Narco Agent
Coming Into Los Angeles (Arlo Guthrie)
Don't Step On the Grass, Sam (Steppinwolf)
The Great Smoke-off (Shell Silversteen)
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