Intellectual Dishonesty 101: "We can't tell the U.K. what to do"

[Savannahmann]

38. None of those are considered important according to polling.

Economy, which you could possibly argue that the Sequester is important to, possibly by stretching a point, is number one. So what plans do we have for the economy? Nothing on the horizon.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/164057/economy-easily-important-driver-obama-approval.aspx

Next up Healthcare. Well, we shot ourselves in the foot by giving big business a year's pass on providing Healthcare to workers. So that one isn't going to be real helpful to us. Let's look at number three.

Terrorism. Not a lot we can say about that except that we're spying on everyone to try and find terrorists. A few more warnings about vague chatter on the internet probably won't help either.

Next up, the sequester issue in full force. Budget Deficit at the Federal Level. Yeah, so what do we run on with that? We could run on raising taxes, we could call it tax fairness. But running on that while we're excusing business' from providing healthcare isn't going to go over well. We could try. The Republicans are better positioned with the cutting spending argument since doom and gloom has not followed the Sequester the way it was promoted.

We are on at best neutral ground on most of the important issues, and at worst the wrong side of the others. That's where we have maneuvered ourselves too. Thankfully, the Republicans haven't figured it out, because if they do, we're toast in 2014. Our last big victory will be getting Corey Booker into the Senate.

Gun Control isn't in the top nine issues. Either is voting rights. Now again, this isn't me, this is Gallop's polling results. This is information released today. This is literally the most up to date information, and your suggestions aren't in the top three. If we start promoting those things, we're going to look stupid as hell. Most people have forgotten about the Sequester because as far as they could tell, nothing changed. Oh they might remember it, I've heard guys (and girls) in the break room at work watching the news mumble about the sequester when President Obama went on vacation. The general phrase was sequester my ass.

So let's pivot to the economy. What plan are we putting forth this time? Because so far the people don't seem to think that it's going all that swimmingly. We can't get a big stimulus package through the Congress. We don't have the votes in the House or Senate. So we'd have to have a long term plan to run on next year. What plan? Bail out Wall Street again? The people would not only vote for the Republicans, they'd lynch us for suggesting TARP II.