We'll Call It the Max Cleland Reverse

Organizing for America, or BarackObama.com, keeps sending me emails about the election. "The inside scoop on our 2010 plans!"

Really? You mean besides handing Congress back to the repugs and blaming the liberals for it?

Let's stop rushing forward into disaster for just a sec and do what this administration is so terrified of doing: examine the past and learn from it.

Remember 2002? Smirky/Darth should have lost dozens of house and senate members that year: gave a monster surplus away to rich people, permitted the biggest terrorist attack on American soil, shit on the constitution, rejected our allies ...

Smirky/Darth even had to surrender on the biggest legislation of the year: formation of the Homeland Security Department, a Democratic idea.

How could Democrats not win?

By letting repugs shamelessly lie, of course. Because Democrats objected to setting new rules that treated DHS employees like serfs with no rights, repugs accused them of aiding and abettting terrorists. That's how draft-dodging douchebag Saxby Chambliss beat incumbent Senator Max Cleland, who lost three limbs fighting in Vietnam .

Democrats tried to explain that Homeland Security, protecting Americans from terrorists was really a Democratic idea, but the repugs kept screaming "bin Laden! Terrorists! Traitors!"

Now, after a year of crying non-stop that Health Care Reform is The Greatest Catastrophe in the History of Mankind, repugs are claiming that the "good parts" of health care reform are really repug ideas.

No, seriously.

And just like the Democrats were in 2002, the repugs are actually right. Instead of just ramming an unlubricated, barbed dildo of Single Payer up the Blue Dogs' ass, this cowardly administration settled for the individual mandate real Democrats rejected in 1994.

I can see the DNC ads already:

Well, yes, actually, health care reform incorporates quite a few market ideas that republicans originally suggested, but that was almost 20 years ago and they weren't really serious then and if they thought it was so great, why did they vote against it this time and besides ..... zzzzzzzzzzz.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. The winning strategy has already been handed to you on a platter by Rep. Alan Grayson, Proud Liberal Elected By Red-State Orlando. Remember this?

"The republican health care reform is: Don't get sick. And if you do get sick, die faster."

Attack, attack, attack. Never, ever defend. Even when you're wrong - especially when you're wrong - attack harder, louder, more viciously.

"Republican Chickencare: If you can't afford to pay cash, you don't deserve health care."

"Republican Chickencare: Clucking Stupid."

At an absolute minimum, how about this:

Republicans want the Insurance Giants to cancel your policy if you get sick. Thanks to the Democratic Congress, they can't.

Republicans want the Insurance Giants to deny you coverage if you're ever been sick before in your life. Thanks to the Democratic Congress, they can't.

Republicans want the Insurance Giants to throw your young adult children off your policy to risk bankruptcy from being uninsured. Thanks to the Democratic Congress, they can't.

Republicans want the Insurance Giants to keep raising premiusm while denying services to your family. Thanks to the Democratic Congress, they can't.

Republicans care about enriching their friends in Big Insurance. They don't care about you. Democrats in Congress do.

Done right, with passion and determination and commitment, the Max Cleland Reverse will increase Democratic seats in both the House and the Senate.

Cross-posted at They Gave Us A Republic ....