Maybe democrats should take a play from Bush's playbook

[Parisle]

---The play is "fear," ... but in the case of the democrats' goals, fear may be a legitimate tactic.

--- Bush tried to use fear of terrorists to whip the nation into a war mentality and grab dictatorial powers for himself. But the real fear now is that Bush is going to deliberately start a nuclear war with Iran in perhaps only a matter of weeks. That's the REAL fear. Surely the vast majority of Americans, when confronted with that very real possibility, would prefer a different tack. So the democrats ought to be making sure that all Americans ARE confronted with this possibility,.. so that they can see it, feel it and believe it. Much the way we felt during the Cuban Missile Crisis in '62. They have to make Bush's envisioned war a real threat in the minds of all Americans. How?

--- Get out of Washington. Take a break. Every single democratic representative and senator should go back to their home states and spend a couple of days in their state legislatures, and in private meetings with state democratic legislators. Make as many local speeches as possible. The goal is to transplant the issue to the state level. Every single state legislator should be screaming their heads off about the looming danger of a unitary executive ignoring popular will and usurping control of the military. Bush must be portrayed as a dangerous loose cannon. Each state legislature should at least vote on a resolution within a week.

--- Hell, give it a Revolutionary War slant: "Annihilation Without Representation" BE the Minutemen, eh? Bring a 3-master into Boston Harbor loaded with a few Diebold machines, and have a few democratic senators and congressmen go onboard and throw the goddamned things overboard. (Too bad it can't be oil) Hang the PNAC in effigy. Quotes from Jefferson, Adams and Paine should be plastered everywhere.

--- Then, back in Washington, stop being polite. Break the unwritten political industry code, and tell the truth about how we got to this point. PNAC, Leo Strauss, "Follow the money," Cheney's secret energy meetings, Downing Street Memo, Constitutional encroachment,.. the whole nine yards. Put together an infomercial. THIS IS NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL. You sons of bitches have got to save this country from a dangerous lunatic, and you can't do it by routine methods.

--- The pure fact of the matter is that, in spite of all that has happened, a lot of people are still complacent,... still timid,... still "wait & see." You've got to make them sit up and pay attention.