I just did something evil. IDEA for getting the GOP to approve Loretta Lynch at LIGHTSPEED.

[calimary]

Consider: who do the CONS hate almost as much as President Obama? Answer: Eric Holder! They'd LOVE to get rid of him. But they're holding off on "principle" or some such rot.

Weeellllllllll... what if word got around that Eric Holder was going to start a war crimes investigation against bush/cheney?

I bet they'd approve a ham sandwich to head up the Justice Department in that case! I bet they'd drop everything and break all land speed records to rush to vote to approve Loretta Lynch!

After all, they ARE stuck with the "hated" Eric Holder until his replacement is seated.

Even if this subject was merely brought up, I bet that'd make their sphincters tighten up so bad that they wouldn't be able to pass anything for a month!

Call your reps! Start spreading it! Even just the very IDEA of it oughta scare some of those schmucks!



Whaddya think? File it under the "... just sayin'...."

[immoderate]

1. Better to call Holder.

--imm

[calimary]

2. That'd be good, too, but I'd rather have this start spreading as "talk."

"People are talking." That's what Nancy Reagan told don regan, whom she did not like as White House Chief of Staff to her precious ronnie. She thought he was provoking a lot of negative publicity and making her hubby look bad, and she wanted him removed, or at least to get him to quit. She had a LOT of power, most of it below-the-radar, and some of it involved stirring up discontent through chatter. Putting a bug in people's ear, and an itch on their skin that they feel compelled to scratch. She was VERY shrewd. And she usually got her way, too. She sure got rid of donald regan. Get people talking. Or insinuate it. As in - "hey, some SHIT's starting to circulate about you. You're in deep doo-doo."

If a whispering campaign starts, it's gonna get around. Especially if staffers for these people, AND others (like the Dems) start talking. And it's absolutely gonna drain the blood from the faces of some of the CONS. They'd give Barack Obama head on their knees amidst fruits and flowers and burning incense before they'd let anything happen to their precious dickie and dubya.

I posted about this once. I enjoyed referring to bush2's little backstage girl as contradicta. I mentioned this in a call to some Dem's office in DC. Staffer took my comment and that was that. A few days later, I called in again. Same office, different staffer. It just happened to come up. "contradicta." Here's what happened next:

Staffer: "HAH! contradicta (chuckles)! That's great! Somebody called in and said that just the other day!" Chuckled again.

Me: "Hmmm... that was me. Glad you like it! I kinda like it, too. I thought that one up myself!"

Staffer: "HAH! That was YOU? God, that's a GREAT one! That's all over the Hill now!"

I swear this is true! These people TALK. They hang out together and go lunch in the lunch room together and go out for a drink after work together and compare notes and gossip. GOSSIP! Make it work FOR you! Spread some gossip! Stir things up! Manipulate! Psy-ops. Mind-fuck 'em. It WORKS. Make it work FOR you!!! MESS with 'em. MESS with 'em BIGTIME.

I'll bet this would make the bad guys grab for the Maalox bottle!

[Octafish]

3. Brilliant idea.

Then make sure Lynch carries it out. It'd be called "Justice."

[calimary]

4. TOLL FREE Capitol Hill switchboard numbers conveniently located in my sig line!

[world wide wally]

5. Or… they would move to impeach Obama so they could say it is just revenge.

They have no scruples or principles whatsoever.

[calimary]

6. Which is why WE should hit them FIRST.

They're used to Democrats just rolling over, or clutching pearls, or wringing their hands, or caving, or running away and hiding. Let's NOT do that. They're bullies? Well, BULLY THEM BACK!!!!!

Btw - I just called Sherrod Brown's office and planted it there, too. The staffer seemed VERY intrigued by the idea.

We've gotta fight these assholes with a little DEVIOUSNESS from time to time. Being nice, and following the rules, has gotten us exactly WHERE?

[LiberalLovinLug]

11. I agree

One can talk all they want about the Republicans living in the 1950's (well except for the tax rates)

But the Democrats are too, in regards to the belief that their opponents have some kind of "fair play" standards. Or that the contemporary news media has the same kind of integrity and uncorruptibility. That the American public will be able to see which party is working for them and which is not, even as hate radio dominates the air waves, and Fox News blasts lies to them 24/7.

Its time they fought fire with fire. And they are smarter than Rethugs, it shouldn't be that difficult.

[calimary]

7. Kicking!!!

[RecoveringJournalist]

8. K & R

And called my Rep. (R) as well.

[mountain grammy]

9. I like it, and what I'd like better

is, When Loretta Lynch is confirmed, she actually does it.

[calimary]

21. One thing at a time.

To be honest, I kinda expect she would NOT go for it. NEVER MIND. It will be useful to get this spread around out there. The whole idea that it's even thinkable, or that it's an idea actively circulating out there - that's a start. Because at the moment, it's almost like a "thou shalt not touch" type of suggestion. This could change that. Or push it forward with a de facto kind of street credibility or something. Just important that it gets out there and starts spreading around. Starts gnawing the supports out from under them.

I sometimes wonder if perhaps those two bastards weren't brought up before a war crimes tribunal simply because nobody thought the idea had any legs. Nobody'd go for it, there'd be no support. And all that. And it's just not the kind of thing too many people felt brave enough to bring up, much less pursue. Well, what if, all of a sudden, you're hearing a whole boatload of scuttlebutt about that around the corridors of power? What might that do to encourage a change in the complexion as it were?

Psy ops.

[JDPriestly]

10. Brilliant.

[Hulk]

12. Am stuffing it into ALL the Yahoo threads I can find.

Just start the rumor. Get the word out, and the reich wingers will go nuts; and maybe darth will have a stroke? We can always dream.

[valerief]

13. Nah, they'd call out their thugs (using this as the original definition of the word, not the

newly bastardized racial one) and have Holder put in a coma. Or worse.

[Thespian2]

14. Great idea!

[Vinca]

15. They don't even have to go that far.

Let word get around that Holder has changed his mind and at Obama's urging has decided to go through 2016. If Obama wants him there, the GOP must get rid of him.

[calimary]

19. Just let word get around. What's that called? Playing "Post Office"?

Just plant some seeds. The law of averages suggests that at least ONE of 'em will take root somewhere. It's really just psyops. Mind-fucking, to be coarse. Perception management. Surround them with a sense of uncertainty. Make 'em squirm. Might not be too long afterwards that you "make 'em squeal," as Mme. hog-castrator would say. Disrupt. Make 'em have to grope across the nightstand for the Maalox bottle, first thing in the morning. Destabilize the enemy. Besides, they think we're naive do-gooders and chumps. They laugh at playing by the rules. They won't expect guerrilla tactics. That and their own tendency to overreach will inevitably trip them up.

BTW, I never met anybody who actually knew what playing "Post Office" meant, or had done it. But it seems EVERYBODY's heard about it!

[NCcoast]

16. I've been thinking the same thing about a Don Siegelman investigation

Put Karl Rove in the cross hairs and see how quickly they confirm Lynch. Unfortunately our team is political equivalent of the Washington Generals.

[I hate liars]

17. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

What a great idea!

[calimary]

20. Welcome to DU, I hate liars!

Glad you're here! Thanks for joining my thread, too. I called my two Senators and then picked a third one at random - Senator Sherrod Brown. Used one of the TOLL FREE Capitol Hill switchboard numbers in my sig line. Called my two at their local offices after leaving messages suggesting this in their voicemail.

That one time I inadvertently planted the contradicta seed - in honor of her Sovietologist self (in an era after the Soviet Union ceased to exist), I never expected that it would REALLY happen - that something I planted would spread like that. But when that staffer told me "that's hilarious! That's all over the Hill now!" I knew I had drawn some blood somewhere. Don't forget human nature! People gossip!!! Use that to your advantage (and ours)! And if you can destabilize the enemy even just a little, you might make it more likely that they'll make a mistake.

[realFedUp]

18. Makes me smile

But the guy has never had the balls.

Does he have an impending job at Occidental?