A favorite Republican tactic is stonewalling; it can easily be used to shame them.

[Fire Walk With Me]

Once they've stolen the sandbox, they'll sit there and utterly ignore our noise and legitimate charges of unfair...until we're out of energy. They've done so many times in the past and are very good at it.

Since they are now so very clearly fucking over the American public and Americans are getting sick of it, we can shame them about stonewalling while Americans suffer due to their selfish tactics. We'll need to stick with it for it to work, but it will work when they get enough bad press about actually hurting people in need.

They don't care about Americans, to say the least. Let's hammer that home where it hurts them, in the media and in direct protest.

[Indydem]

1. "while Americans suffer due to their selfish tactics."

Remember, in the teabagger world, those people are suffering because of their own choices.

Unfortunately, too many Americans share that disdain for the poor, the uneducated, and the powerless.

Sigh.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Now is the time for them to realize that they've made a mistake, one they can change.

Things are changing. Even if in part by the depth of the ugliness in the Republican's recent corporate-sponsored proposals. People are tired of being effected directly by their crap.

Republicans are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy against themselves...

[calimary]

6. Yes indeed. Because their own choices include voting straight party-line republi-CON.

[TheKentuckian]

3. I take exception to the premise that the TeaPubliKlans can be easily shamed.

It might be possible but it is difficult and improbable.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. You're completely correct; they can't be shamed at all, whatsoever.

What they can be, is shut down through shaming comparisons so cutting that there is no possible reply. =Show= that Americans are suffering as a direct result of Republican action, while they attempt to present/defend it. They can sense a mob forming as well as anyone else.

[DirkGently]

5. They can't really be shamed. But start talking about recalls and such ...

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. You're right. I should have changed my OP to "Shouted Down" instead of shamed.

And yes, kick them where it hurts most-- in their jobs.

[calimary]

8. That's the beauty of the whole Madison WI story. The bad guys aren't used to Dems

who actually stand up and have a backbone. They aren't used to resistance as strong as what they've seen here. The template the republi-CONS have for the general behavior and response tactics of our side is a four-letter word: CAVE. Because up til Madison WI, that's what everybody has done on our side. Maybe complain a little and write a couple of "sternly-worded letters," and then - CAVE. And the Wisconsin 14 have NOT. And I think the bad guys, deep down, are just completely flummoxed - they do NOT know what to do about this. They don't know how to respond or react because it's just completely new territory for them. They have no template for insurrections like this - especially an insurrection that is A) not stopping and B) gaining ground.

Remember: this is the crowd that was bottle-fed astroturf'd emails and LTTEs, manufactured bus tours, coached and massaged media mouthpieces all vomiting up the same blast-faxed talking points that circulate to ANYTHING with an "R" after its name, and hate radio blowhards repeatedly trumpeting messages like "you don't even HAVE to think! I'LL do the thinking FOR you!!!!!" (and then believing it and swallowing it whole, without questioning). I actually heard limbaugh say that once. I made a point to remember it.

Perhaps their mental acuity is failing. Maybe their ability to consider logic and odd things like facts and anything beyond the party line has just atrophied from lack of use. Or perhaps they're lazy and don't care to study or read at all, especially if their "faith" tells them what's what. And there are the adorable, folksy, plain-tawkin' default statements upon being confronted with those odd things like facts: "well, I don't know..." or (with arms folded over chest, chin jutted out in defiance, and heels dug in) "well, I know what I know!" These people have been programmed. Dial tuned to WILLFULLY STUPID.

And for the first time in memory, some Dems decided to stand up, stay standing, and never bending over.

Remember too, another line I made a point never to forget: george w. bush said this while campaigning for election in 2004: "you may not agree with me, but you know where I stand." And that's powerful stuff. TAKING A STAND. It's so powerful people will vote for the very act of it, regardless what that stand is. From the "well, at least he STANDS FOR SOMETHING..." (another one of those mindless default statements in which these folks tend to specialize).

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. True!