David Corn: It's bedwetting time.

[kpete]

So should the sheets be soaked?

Given the media’s love affair with the Democrats-in-disarray narrative, it might be easy to dismiss this current bout of alarm and dread. After all, it seems that Biden and the Ds could be close to enacting the Build Back Better package, which contains a host of popular programs. (The House passed the measure without a single GOP vote on Friday. Now the world waits on Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.) Can the Dems regain ground by nailing this legislation and messaging the hell out of their historic accomplishments?

It may not be that easy. I wonder if sending Biden to the hinterlands to stand in front of one bridge after another to claim credit (legitimately) for a revival of the nation’s transportation and cyber infrastructure will do the trick. He might need to do something else: Slam the Republicans.

.............

Biden must clearly delineate the choice at hand. Name names. The 2022 election is not about healing. It is about division. He and the Democrats can’t coast on their accomplishments. (See 2010.) They must fiercely define the enemy and attack—of course, with grace, wit, and integrity. After all, that’s what the Republicans will be doing, but without grace, wit, and integrity.

https://link.motherjones.com/public/25771802

Link to tweet

?s=20

[gulliver]

1. It's the "Slam the Republicans," stupid!

I certainly hope traipsing President Biden around the country for photo ops isn't the whole show. We should be ripping the Republicans a new alimentary exit port. Every single day. Repeatedly mock and scorn the Republicans. Steal their girlfriends and boyfriends. Take their lunch money. They're sitting ducks. Repeatedly take it to them. Then repeat the repetition. And repeat that repetition. And repeat that one too. Then go to the previous sentence.

Corn sums it up very well:

External events may dramatically tilt the playing field for 2022. If there is a new COVID surge and persistent inflation, there won’t be much Biden can do to save the Democrats. But beyond holding photo ops at bridges, transportation hubs, child care facilities, and automobile factories, he will have to tell a political tale of high stakes, of heroes and villains. Specific villains, who can be expected to gin up one phony panic after another.

Biden must clearly delineate the choice at hand. Name names. The 2022 election is not about healing. It is about division. He and the Democrats can’t coast on their accomplishments. (See 2010.) They must fiercely define the enemy and attack—of course, with grace, wit, and integrity. After all, that’s what the Republicans will be doing, but without grace, wit, and integrity.

[Grasswire2]

3. If I may...

I'm going to lift some of the language of your paragraph and take it to twitter.

That's exactly what must be done.

Someone else recently pointed out the value of ridiculing GOP.

[gulliver]

7. Fine with me

And please feel free to spice it up at will.

[Pepsidog]

23. Great post.

[DENVERPOPS]

28. Bingo

Regretfully, the Dems are not street fighters, with most being pacifists..........

We allowed the so called Reagan election to pass, the 2000 so called election to pass, then the 2004 election to pass, etc etc

Those were all totally corrupted Elections when the Dems should have drawn a line in the sand, and yet, we just stood by and watched...

[Evolve Dammit]

32. so true

[secondwind]

42. Maybe our President should start "fireside chats" or something. He needs to stay visible and active

LOVE MY PRESIDENT!

[olegramps]

44. I have often wondered why Democrats continue to play nice while being attack.

It reminds me of abused wives who keep coming back for mistreatment ridiculously believing their abuser is going change. It a hopeless cause if Democrats think that a party that thrives on hatred will get a conscience. They should be calling the Republicans exactly what they are: Bloody Fascists and their party the reincarnation of the the NAZI regime of murderous thugs. Every time McCarthy and his minions spew their lies they should be drown them out with screaming that they are damnable lying scumbags. When the party gets a pair of balls then they will see the people rally to their side. What the people see is a party of weak kneed pansies who would abandon them when challenged.

[CrispyQ]

2. If he thinks all he needs to do is improve people's lives & they'll vote dem, he's mistaken.

81 million people, millions who risked their well-being by standing in long lines, didn't go to the polls just for bridges & roads. We went for accountability of the Trump administration. And for voting rights legislation. If we don't have something by next spring to rev up the base, we could lose a chamber & then nothing will get done. GOTV has always been our strong suit, but with the suppression legislation that has been passed in so many states, even that's at risk. We can't afford an apathetic base.

[displacedtexan]

10. Exactly! Just like those who love the ACA but hate Obamacare...

…wingnuts will love the infrastructure bill and even the BBB bill, but they'll hate them in public.

The GOP pulls more and more outrageous stunts because they know Dems will always try to fix everything for everyone anyway.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. Slamming fascists shouldn't be so hard, WH??

[Budi]

5. Really Corn? Bedwetting time? Where the F.U.C.K. were YOU in 2016?

Donald Trump should have NEVER been in the Repub Primary Election race at all, much less the GE.

Mr Corn, you sit at the highest eschelons of Media. Well Connected to that inner world that few of us ever know of.

Where T F were YOU in 2015/2016 when the influence of RU was clearly a known force?

Where was this old sage ADVICE to your readers & your growing social media dominance?
What MESSAGE WERE YOU SENDING?

Now you slap another degrading bullshit Meme on the Party YOU helped bury back in 2016?

Dear Mr Corn.
It was YOU that pissed in the Democratic Party's bed back in 2016.
YOU WET THAT BED.

YOU jumped on the Trump train, every time you degraded the only candidate placed to defeat this atrocity of our American Democracy.
Our US Constitution stands at risk today, because YOU chose to align against the only person that held the power of defeating what we now face today.

Yes, Mr Corn. I Will never forget those who stood not with America, but wavered somewhere in the middle screaching for goddamned 'Free Shit".

You played the same "Money & Media" profit game they all did, as the behest of our America.

So fk you, Mr Corn.
I remember how YOU personally contributed to the demise of the ONLY PERSON THAT STOOD BETWEEN US & THE APOCOLYPSE, thru the words you spoke & wrote.

IT WAS YOU THAT PISSED IN AMERICA'S BED, NOT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

STFU.

[NullTuples]

15. Well said. It's almost like the media has a vested interest in maintaining chaos.

[Budi]

18. Steve Schmidt nails the Media Affect:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016306773

@SteveSchmidtSES
"I think there is another cost to our society around the Rittenhouse trial and it is the warping affect of the constancy of media coverage around the worst of us at the cost of ignoring the best of us. All across America there are stories of good people doing heroic deeds."
In referencing the Media Affect on the Rittenhouse fiasco, as example, Mr Schmidt makes clear the Media's obsession in churning out drama-for-profits.

Excellent Read.

[orangecrush]

19. THIS X 1000

[Cheezoholic]

22. The media are just like sports line makers

I remember high school in the 70's. We'd get out of school, stop at the local drug store and pick up a National Enquirer and some 16oz bottles of Sunkist (great stoner drink back then), walk down the railroad tracks and hop into an empty box car. We'd light up a 5 inch Cheech and Chong with seed infested, burn a hole in yer shirt popping, praying it wasn't soaked in paraquat, 7 gram joint rolled in a strawberry "no roach clip required" EZWider fitted with a straightend paper clip, and laugh our asses off at the pictures of 3 headed Elvis aliens that purportedly kidnapped an Iowa preachers daughter and turned her into a communist.

45 years later the weed has gotten really good (too good IMO) with no seeds and is almost legal. However, no need to pick up an Enquirer anymore. Just turn on the mind raper to the "serious" news channels, read a "serious" news rag, or peruse a "serious" news website and it feels like those 3 headed Elvis aliens are everywhere.

The new media are like Vegas sports line makers. They will raise/lower the line(criticism) if one team is getting to strongly bet on. 50/50 is where the real money is at.

[Budi]

39. K & R spot the fk on, Thank you. "Vegas sports line makers""

[marieo1]

6. Total Agreement

Kpete.......I agree 150% We've been nice guys way too long and have forgotten how to fight, nicely of course. I wish some of the people in power could read this. Thanks Kpete

[ybbor]

8. FDR embraced the hatred

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Biden needs to do the same. I think he should address the Let’s go Brandon meme and turn into his favor. We are never gonna win them over with actions alone. We need to match their rhetoric with tough talk of our own!

[Evolve Dammit]

33. It's past time to welcome their hatred. I wish we had that kind of leadership today. Repukes sure do

[Beartracks]

9. Yes. Being right isn't enough. We also have to WIN. n/t

[American Interregnum]

11. Bill Clinton is the Model

Whenever he or his policies came under attack, he would launch a counterstrike immediately.

[NullTuples]

14. It was almost like he thought & in many ways felt the way they do...

Not always the greatest thing for minorities who want things like civil equality & for the separation of church and state.

[joshcryer]

38. We will never learn from what the New Democrats achieved.

It will never happen again either as the courts are going to be perpetually stacked, the districts are going to be perpetually gerrymandered.

[Mr.Bill]

12. How do you counter a House Minority Leader

who stands there for eight and a half hours screaming lies?

[NullTuples]

13. The 2022 election is not about healing; it is about fighting for our democracy.

2020 was just pulling on the emergency brake of a runaway train.

We still have turn the train around and get back to where we need to be.

If we and our representatives in DC don't put everything into this fight, we will lose, and that train will simply start barreling down the tracks again toward oblivion.

[JHB]

16. Shorter Corn: HIT THEM ALREADY!

As Eric Holder advised, "When they go low, kick them!"

And they always go low. They act like bad guys, so treat them like bad guys.

Find ways to divide them. Get evangelicals on camera saying "Catholics aren't Christian" and make sure Catholics see it.

[Initech]

17. Time to stop playing nice. It's time to start fighting fire with fire.

Want to win in 2022? Time to start painting the GOP as the party of Nazis, terrorists, and murderers. The world needs to know who the GOP really is, and they do not abide by the rule of law. They truly showed it yesterday with their celebrating and fawning over the Rittenhouse verdict. It's seriously disgusting. The GOP is now the party of terrorism and they need to be painted as such.

[yorkster]

20. MaraL Liassen (sp)

was the first person I ever heard use the term bedwetting as a noun preceded by the word "Democratic".
I wss listening to npr on the car radio. Don't know who first came up with this charming description, but it was repulsive (and infuriating).

It's a cheap shot, lowest common denominator slam
and it would be great if people stopped using it - especially Dems.
Sorry for rant.

[yorkster]

21. Mara Liasson

[Celerity]

27. David Plouffe, Obama's former campaign manager and top political adviser, first coined the

term 'bed-wetting' back in 2008 when Democrats began openly fretting about their political challenges.

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/02/bill-clinton-arrives-to-calm-democratic-bed-wetting/

Plouffe used the term again before the 2010 midterm elections in a Washington Post op-ed when he urged “no bed-wetting” among Democrats.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012204216.html

Plouffe to Dems: No 'bed-wetting'

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/01/24/Plouffe-to-Dems-No-bed-wetting/41351264350991/?u3L=1

[yorkster]

35. Thanks for info.

I like Plouffe for the most part. But I wish he hadn't come up with that cringeworthy term. It's like when Brian Williams used defund the police ad nauseam, tho' fortunately he's stopped bringing that topic up.

[Celerity]

36. I have heard it applied the Rethug corpo-nazi piglets before too, especially when

Trump started to destroy all the other stooges, shills, and bellends in the 2016 primaries clown car.

[Budi]

40. Thank you.. I expected nothing less from Mr Corn than jumping on that Money & Media train & riding..

...it as long as he can with the rest of the extreme-drama kings & queens.

The Democratic Party & Joe Biden sure don't need the advice of more of the backstabbers
that dragged the one person on the planet who stood between us & the fking apocolyptic 2016 Red carpet lain out for Trump.

Corn was part of that money & media profit game they all jumped on as America burned

His armchair advice is worthless chatter.

[betsuni]

24. I don't think it matters what Democrats do. It's mostly out of their control.

Go negative, they're criticized for being too partisan, making excuses, not having any other message, both sides. Don't go negative, they're spineless, bringing a knife to a gunfight, clueless. It's always something.

[lees1975]

26. The Democrats do need to control the narrative

with grace, wit and integrity. They need to put it out there everywhere. But they are going to win big in 2022. The Republicans have nothing but Trump and that's big enough to win their party, but not elections.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/11/democrats-are-on-roll-control-narrative.html

[Celerity]

29. K & R

[Historic NY]

30. Joe its hard ball time......

no passes, no free throws, no get out of jail free, ride them into the ground.

[Budi]

41. Biden wiped the floor in the 2020 Primary & proceeded on, to throw Trump out of the WH

Joe Biden doesn't need to be advised of how nor when to play 'hardball' by David Corn of all people.

Online Social Media armchair Presidential advising sure is simple, from the armchair.

[jaxexpat]

31. Biden could stand next to a huge pile of $100.00 bills, point and say......

"This is the money we get from tax payers that won't be wasted in Afghanistan this month and all the months to follow. At another pile he could point and tell people that's the money tax payers like you gave the government so that big oil, big pharma and big tech wouldn't have to.

[Ligyron]

37. There ya go!!

Most Americans biggest issues, or enough of them to win elections, revolves around money.

Point out repeatedly how they are being screwed by the 1% and their lackies in Congress.

[Wounded Bear]

34. Except that Dems didn't "coast on their accomplishments" in 2010...

Far too many of them ran from the ACA, fueling the repub backlash.

[larwdem]

43. agree

start kicking ass