Reply #12: Time-honored standard legislative ploy

[tkmorris]

I call it "make the other side be the bad guys". Put up bills that are popular, especially ones that do what your opposition only claims to want (support the troops, save the kids, yadda yadda), then make them show their faces voting against you.

What you need to expect though, is that the Black Hats will try to poison the bill before it comes to a vote. They sure as hell will never vote for cloture on such a thing, but perhaps that in itself exposes them sufficiently.

It's worth a try at least.