I said it after the election. David Plouffe should run the DNC and use the model of the Obama campaign to win the agenda battles.
No dice. The DNC has been lackluster and I am being charitable.
I reiterated the need for David Plouffe to take the command of Organizing for America.
No dice. I cannot believe that David Plouffe would not do anything the President wanted him to do. So please do not say there were reasons.
Now I ask for a third time, when errors are creeping into Democratic strategy, will the President have David Plouffe become the field commander of the healthcare struggle.
Here’s what needs solving.
1. The current message sucks. I am using Plouffe language. The health care issue is complex and we still do not have the message we need to speak to the people we need to win.
2. Leadership is diffuse when it needs to be clear and obvious. No one is running this. That is terrible.
3. We are talking out of both sides of our mouths. We are cozying with the pharmas and saying we will not dock you more than the 80 billion you have offered. And we are casting this as an insurance battle. It is, but the contradiction needs explaining.
4. David Plouffe was as important to the success of this movement as the President was. They are the two sides we need to be whole in the struggle.
This can be solved with a phone call. I would put David in charge of the DNC and turn the DNC into OFA and let everyone yell and scream because they know this is a willing strategy. Failing that I would make him the leader of the August Health Care push.
What Mr. Plouffe needs is the Audacity to Win.
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I much appreciate this. It is exactly what I would like to feel and believe. I am sure you see things from a more informed perspective than I do. Best, S
Steve,
This is a fairly easy routine. Healthcare will pass because the people want it. This brouhaha media stink is a pretty open elaborate smokescreen.
The protesters, who were the birthers, who were the tea-baggers are clearly much exercised, bu that has to do wit a personal antipathy towards the president.
We have lived with the toxic church of Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity in our midst for far too long. It has passed the smell test because it was someone else’s problem. Now it is squarely ours. Put together with the institutional media & insitutions that are threated by the insitution of the Obama presidency (From Wall street exec, to car execs to energy execs feel threated by Obama) this fierce resisitance is a natural end & should be expected.
The signature of the Obama campaing was not so much Ploufffe as it was ordinary citizens taking matters into their own hands. We threaded a needle with the election on Obama. We must take matters into our own hands to bring the change we need during his presidency.
As for Plouffe; he is full engaged at the DNC & OFA rest assured. Mitch Stewart is his protege & a masterful grassroots organizer. Remember it’s Stewart who won both the IOWA primary & the VIrginia GE.
Let’s take things down a notch, realize who the real enemy is a queitly & tactically begin the work of taking things back into our own hands.
This is a heavy lift, yet we must bear it with grace…
Me, too. I wish it was already done. The summer break leaves too much time for obstruction and obfuscation.
My problem is when I get feeling the way I feel I have usually been right in the past and the result has never been what would correct the problem. I just wish I could wake up tomorrow and it would be done. Cheers, S
Agreed, Stephen. This is getting ridiculous–and the “liberal media” is not helping us any. We need a message.