June 12, 2006
EIGHTH TIMES THE CHARM
How to Take Back Congress: Advice for the Democrats (Washington Post, 6/11/06)
The war in Iraq is over except for the dying. Campaign for a date to bring our forces home. Speak for Americans on big issues like gas prices, health care, the environment and alternative energy. Don't be afraid to say we're for the people, not the powerful. Be Democrats -- for a change.Just never say that Democrats are defeatists who are counting on the insurgents to bring victory to the Party. Posted by David Cohen at June 12, 2006 7:54 PM-- Robert Shrum, senior adviser to John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign
I get the feeling someone else will make that clear. (If they don't, the R's deserve to lose.)
Posted by: ghostcat at June 12, 2006 8:08 PM"...senior adviser to John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign."
so....how DID that campaign work out, Mr. Shrum?
Posted by: John Resnick at June 12, 2006 8:41 PMYes, please listen to Bob (0-8) Shrum. The only person who's better qualified to give the Dems advices is Markos (0-20) Moulitas.
Posted by: Robert Modean at June 12, 2006 9:27 PMSince when have they ever been afraid to say they were "for the people, not the powerful?" They won't shut up about it.
Posted by: Brandon at June 12, 2006 9:29 PMThe people.....hmmm, does that mean Peter Lewis, George Soros, the trial lawyers, the public employee unions, and Hollywood?
John F. Kerry lost 79% of the counties in the 2004 election. What 'people' is Bob Shrum talking about?
Posted by: jim hamlen at June 12, 2006 10:05 PMSpeaking of trial lawyers, OJ, I'm rather surprised you haven't blogged this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/business/12milberg.html?_r=1&oref=login
The pioneering firm of the scum-sucking ambulance-chasing plaintiffs' bar (and a major Democratic contributor, of course) gets indicted for champerty (leave the barratry aside), and four Democratic congressmen in an election year feel the need to defend the firm from "the Justice Department's crusade against trial lawyers."
Posted by: Random Lawyer at June 12, 2006 10:30 PMRandom Lawyer:
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of fellows.
And my compliments to you on (1) using 'champerty' and 'barratry' in the same sentence, and (2) using them correctly.
When did you graduate from law school? Must have been a while ago. I thought those antiquated terms vanished from the legal vocabulary about the time that class actions (and lawyers who represented the 'class') were being trumpeted by law school professors as the final step in achieving social justice and everlasting peace and harmony.
Posted by: Fred Jacobsen (San Fran) at June 13, 2006 2:21 AMSince when have they ever been afraid to say they were "for the people, not the powerful?"
Since when was Bob Shrum reduced to cribbing his catchphrases from Barbara Streisand?
Posted by: Mike Morley at June 13, 2006 7:34 AMI've thought that Barratry would make a great dog's name. (A real, big dog, not a doglet.)