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Day 1: Schedule a vote on DREAM Act with the talking point "Men and women who were brought here as children without legal status want to die for us, we at least can make them legal. A tax break for millionaires can wait in my book but obviously not in the Republican book." Let it get defeated. Day 2: Schedule a vote on DADT repeal with the talking point "America is about equality-and equality means that Americans who happen to be gay should have the same right to serve their country as anyone else. Millionaires can be asked to sacrifice a few thousand dollars for the soldiers. But obviously Republicans hate our soldiers else why would they be holding them hostage?"\ Same Day 3: Schedule a vote on the 9/11 bill with the talking point: "You know, I could stand-barely but I could stand it-when the Republicans put a few measly thousand dollars before our soldiers rights and needs. But how DARE they? How DARE they take the men and women who ARE DYING right now without adequate funding for their care and families and hold them hostage for a few thousand dollars. Those millionaires are happy to help..." *make sure you have some millionaires standing around you and nodding their heads when at the podium* We know it will be defeated... Day 4: Re-schedule the vote on the DREAM Act...but ratchet up the tension by being a lot nastier. "Sgt. So and So joined the US military with a dream in his mind-to serve the greatest nation on Earth. So what do the Republicans do? Spit on him. Oh yeah, they are spitting on his dream to make his contribution to the United State of America. Call them and ask them why they think it is okay to spit on soldiers." Day 5: Re-schedule a vote on DADT repeal, again, jacking up the rhetoric, ask a family of a slain gay American soldier for permission to talk about him or her. "PFC So and So was a person who believed in the wonder that is our nation. That we truly mean that we are all equal-and so he (or she) joined our military to show how important it is to protect that concept. However, the Republicans believe that this person is not equal-that millionaires require more money rather than a soldier being able to be enjoy the rights they are fighting and dying for.
*leave that percolating over the weekend*
Day 6 of voting: Reschedule the 9/11 bill with a simple message: let the men and women have a chance to speak about what they think of this complete disregard for them.
Lather, rinse and repeat until the political pressure explodes on the Republicans and it will.
But then, that takes balls and who expects either Reid or Obama to have them?
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