regarding: 9-11-24-7-365 Boehner’s Confidential Strategy Memo

EXCLUSIVE: Majority Leader Boehner’s Confidential Strategy Memo For Thursday’s Iraq Debate
Think Progress | 6/14/06
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/14/boehner-memo/

On Thursday, the House of Representatives will hold a debate on the Iraq war. Media reports say Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) “hopes to match the serious, dignified tone of deliberation that preceded the Gulf war, in 1991.”

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Big Question: 9-11-24-7-365, are you ready for it?
Bigger Question: Are the Democrats ready for it?

bush and GOPers will be beating this drum round the clock. Right now they are emboldened by Zarqawi's demise and a carefully scripted 'bush* surprise' visit to Iraq.

Democrats have been sort of sitting back waiting for the GOPers to implode, but the political theater is not one where you can do that for long. Things happen quickly, public opinion changes as memory fades.

Can anyone reasonably deny the horrors of September 11? Can anyone deny "supporting the troops"? It's hard to do take a stance against bush*'s policies and still acknowledge September 11 and support the troops.

We know the Boehner memo is a political stunt designed to set the stage for the 9-11 theme of mid-term campaigns. Get Democrats on the record and then attack them when they speak out against bush*/GOPer handling of the War on Terror.

So what can Democrats do? Get off their butts for one thing, the other is to get a united message.

How should the Democrats respond to the round the clock terror terror terror 9-11 9-11 9-11?

1. Highlight the incompetence of bush*'s misadministration and the servial compliance of the rubber-stamping Republican Congress. How many of the 9-11 commission recommendations have actually been implimented? How can we be safer if we haven't taken steps to make us safer?

2. Ask why we have our troops dying in Iraq for democracy when our our "freedoms" are under attack by the bush* administration and rubber-stamping republicans. (i.e NSA spying)

3. When (not if) a terror alert is issued - ask are we really safe - or are terror alerts part of the republican campaign strategy?

4. Present a UNIFIED plan for implimenting the 9-11 commission recommendations.

The Democrats can not afford to wait for Republicans to implode. American can't wait for it either. just my 2-cents

Accuse Bush of lying about a connection between September 11 and Iraq. Say that no link exists, or ever existed. Bush knows this, yet he still tries to "fool" the American people. That this is just the same old lie, repeated. That Bush and the Republicans say they have "learned from their mistakes," yet they make the same mistake over and over. Lie, after lie, to justify a war that will never end. And given their behavior of late, it doesn't seem like the Republican Party will ever change.

Thus, if you want change or balance they have no choice but to vote Democrat.

P.S. I hope the Democrats don't fall into this little trap Rove/GOP in COngress have concocted. I hope they debate, and then refuse to vote. Calling it what it is: political theater.

post 9-11 world? don't we still need health care in a post 9-11 world? don't we still need politicians who tell the truth in a post 9-11 world?