Thats the key to wining in November showing Americans that you are serious about Jobs and will push as hard as you can to get several meaningful jobs bills that help small businesses and regular folk alike passed.
The scaled down version of Climate Bill won't do, unless it removes all subsidies to polluters like Big Oil and Coal companies and permanently put us on a path to a clean energy future and away from the stranglehold of this polluters.
Elizabeth Warren to head the CFPB should be a no brainer, this appointment is key, it will show Americans, specially independents, that democrats are serious about reining in the excesses of Big Corporations and it's putting it's best foot forward to do so.
A little reported on (mainly because it's good news for dems) recent Gallup poll shows democrats leading republicans in the generic ballot 49% to 43%, and it shows the movement is among independents with republicans leading only by 4 points 43% 39%.
So, contrary to popular belief and pundit predictions the war between democrats and republicans wont be about independents, to all the geniuses that run the WH or are in leadership positions in Congress... ITS THE BASE STUPID !
Republicans have screwed up so bad lately that if all things were equal dems would be leading by at least 30 points, but this are not normal times, people are still out of work and loosing their homes and that has to be priority #1 for dems, do as much as you can to EASE THE PAIN OF AMERICANS.
I don't predict democrats will be as enthusiastic for the midterms as the crazy foaming at the mouth tea baggers, republicans have a huge edge, which is given to them by being the party out of power, the underdog factor, which is why we also won big in the past when Dick and Bush were in charge.
But it is my belief that there is enough good will amongst the democratic base that if they see their leadership fianally listening to their demands (it only took 18 months, I know), sensible immigration reform, climate change legislation, finally repealing DADT so that our gay brothers and sisters can finally have equal rights, all this things would go a long way in creating the good will necessary for democrats to show up in droves for the midterm elections and if not add to the majorities we currently have at least not loose them.
Once again, it's up to PRESIDENT OBAMA to LEAD US into battle and for that we need him to BE FEARLESS. No more succumbing and overreacting to the right wing smears like Breitbarts attack on Miss Sherrod, lets hope that was a lesson and it actually opened their eyes so they could see the only way to FIGHT RIGHT WING SMEARS is WITH THE TRUTH. OFA needs to put that FIGHT THE SMEARS (http://fightthesmears.com) website back up, it was key to debunking the right wing lies in the campaign and should do just fine for the midterms.
And to my brothers and sisters, please watch and listen carefully to Van Jones speech to Netroots Nation, he laid it all out, to sum it up:
"LOVE CONQUERS ALL THINGS; LET US ALL TOO SURRENDER TO LOVE"
Virgil