GOP Brand analysis from pollster.com.

Don't fall for The Pragmatic Progressive impostors. I like them, I like their content, but this has been going on for eight years, and I've been doing it since 2002.

I understand Obama declared himself to be a "Pragmatic Progressive", that's fine. I understand that people like this combination of words. Just think up your own name. When I started this blog, around the same time I heard that such a thing as a blog existed, I searched HIGH and LOW to make sure I wasn't ripping off someone else's masthead, by accident or by purpose.

So please, if you're reading this and you're one of the people calling themselves pragpro or their website The Pragmatic Progressive, get your own title. I don't need comments misappropriated to me. Let's eliminate confusion, I'll link you, I'll support you, but respect the guy who got there first.

I'm Especially disappointed that a fine University Paper like The Georgetown Hoya doesn't do research, doesn't google The Pragmatic Progressive, so keep it off my wave, m'kay? It's sloppy.

Consumer Reports Endorses Obama and Congressional Democrat's Health Reforms.

A very unique first for Consumer Reports, and should help with final passage. The need for health reform has become this decade's "inconvenient truth", such that the GOP can no longer deny the self-evidence of the issue like they did with Civil Rights, Cigarettes, Pollution, global warming, K-Street and fundraising corruption, etc., etc.

Their Statement,

Health care has been a top priority of Consumers Union since we started back in 1936. In the pages of Consumer Reports and the advocacy work we do for consumers, we've long argued for better health care that's more affordable and reliable.

While working for better health care is not new for our organization, today we are doing something that we've never done before. For the first time ever, Consumers Union is weighing in with a TV ad that calls on lawmakers to find a solution for health reform.

You may wonder why we are injecting ourselves so publicly into a heated debate that has generated an enormous amount of concern and confusion. We believe that so much attention has been focused on the politics of health care that we're losing sight of the core problems. Health costs are skyrocketing, which affects all of us, and if you get seriously sick, having insurance is no guarantee that you'll get the care you need.

We are in the business of providing information and advice that helps consumers. We don't make campaign contributions. We don't endorse candidates. And we don't care who gets the credit for fixing the problems with health care—we just need them fixed. Doing nothing about health care is not a solution.

Too many Americans are just one pink slip away—or one major illness away—from losing their health coverage. That's why policymakers need to find a solution this year.

From Rolling Stone,

According to internal documents obtained by Rolling Stone, right wing groups have been coordinating "in a plot to unleash irate mobs at town-hall meetings."

"Far from representing a spontaneous upwelling of populist rage, the protests were tightly orchestrated from the top down by corporate-funded front groups as well as top lobbyists for the health care industry. Call it the return of the Karl Rove playbook: The effort to mobilize the angriest fringe of the Republican base was guided by a conservative dream team that included the same GOP henchmen who Swift-boated John Kerry in 2004, smeared John McCain in 2000, wrote the script for Republican obstructionism on global warming, and harpooned the health care reform effort led by Hillary Clinton in 1993."

A nice summary of the behind the scenes pulley system within the Know Nothing Caucus.

There is a negative subtext/effect on moving the GOP so far right,

Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman rolled up a series of endorsements yesterday in his dark horse bid for former Rep. John M. McHugh's upstate New York House seat, CQ Poltiics reports.

First Read: "Are Republicans/conservatives going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in NY-23, the congressional seat vacated by John McHugh (R)? The conservative Club for Growth has now endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over the socially moderate/liberal GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava; former presidential candidate Fred Thompson also has endorsed Hoffman. Could Republicans splitting their votes between Hoffman and Scozzafava tip the race to the Democrat in the race, Bill Owens? We've said this before and we'll say it again: Outside of watching the Obama administration's ups and downs, the most intriguing political story in America could very well be the infighting inside the Republican Party. Besides the Scozzafava-Hoffman split, we're going to see several important GOP primaries next year over the heart and soul of the GOP -- Perry vs. Hutchison in Texas, Crist vs. Rubio in Florida, the challenge against Utah Sen. Bob Bennett, and even the primary challenge against John McCain."

The Democrats have kept the NRA's and Chamber of Commerce's money on the sideline, the NRA because we looked the other way on assault weapons and guns in the national parks, the business lobby because we literally saved the American economy from the brink of meltdown and and the sharps know this. The internal GOP civil war, the sating of business interests with regard to power retainment and their fear of the Huckabee or Palin wings taking power, along with the sullied GOP brand name and demographics will combine to make GOP Congressional gains in 2010 minimal.

Dear GOP I'm not interested in your success, but I'm just saying for the sake of thought, and as a warning to the Democratic Party.

Score:
Obama 55-60% approval, 35-40% against. MoE. You guys lost North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, New Hampshire, Indiana, and Nevada to a Freshman Senator named Barack Hussein Obama.



You guys keep losing elections because,

1. You lie to yourselves.

2. You rather have what you believe affirmed then create an honest policy intelligence product for yourselves. You need to freshen up your policy priorities to match the voters, it's not about better sales techniques, propaganda, or words that work.

3. Incompetence in execution and your inability to see that you execute like the Washington Generals. Your fundamental knowledge of classic government principles were dropped because you shunned anything "intellectual" from a "university" not run by a Televangelist.

4. Demographics. You rather win the Confederacy then the election.

5. You still kowtow to the corporations, but the corporations could really care less if you're in power or not. They're not really your friends. Like a shark they don't have friends.

6. A bad bench of charisma free national level candidates. Bad farm system. It will take 8-12 years to recover from the damage Bush did to the perception of your party.

7. No new ideas. Lot's of warmed over 1980s ideas. But not in tune with the priorities of 55-60% of voters, so you don't have the policy solutions that could pass. Like privatizing Social Security, the people don't want it. You guys keep telling yourselves they do. People know there is a health crisis, you deny it like you did Cigarettes linkage to cancer and global warming. How is that working out for you? Disagree with the NAS in the internet age at your own peril, maybe in 1990, but not today. It seems to people that you might deny the earth is round if you thought it could win you Mississippi. People actual can check facts now. You have to change your whole program.

8. Don't worry the evangelicals and John Birch caucus that is steering your party will drive you into the ground smiling all the way, as they explode into the ground they''ll be cheering and hailing their victory. Driving them away into their own party for special voters would be evolution in action.

9. Stop making shit up.

10. Stop making shit up and accept that you have been making shit up and lying to the most trusting people you could find. Knowledge has causght up with your deception and propaganda operation to the point where there is show on Comedy Central at 11:30PM M-Th that mocks you're ineptitude to the tune of two Peabody's and an Emmy. Wake-up, Glenn Beck isn't going to win a Peabody.

11. Solve problems, don't create new one's, don't manufacture false or lower real priorities. Terry Schivo? really?

Be honest with yourselves, and check your work, because the Scoreboard is lit up against you and you keep telling yourselves you're winning. Where's your surge? You need a Libertarian-Conservative Coalition to win Like the Germans in their recent election., but you turned the libertarians off over religion and drug enforcement as a priority. You're schism was exploited. Good luck putting your literal Humpty Dumpty Coalition back together again.

You're welcome.

PS

GOP I hope you just blow-up into two parties.

PPS

The Senate Finance Committee will vote on the Public Option this week, 75%,of the people want it, according to a CBS poll this week. I've outlined the politics of the vote, now we see what happens, with our 13-10 majority, and hope Baucus, Conrad, Lincoln, and Carper, don't care to be known for voting with the GOP to kill a policy option with 75% approval. This is a test of big pharma and insurance company money vs. the interests of the people and the will of the people. If we lose this one, the people must demand that the money be replaced with an alternative public campaign funding system that will remove the lobbyists power and leverage as middle men. This plutocracy will be the end of us. If the need to raise $10 million wasn't there to win a Small State Senate Seat, lobbyists wouldn't have the Senate's ear, and this would be a 13-10 vote for the public option.