The Hill:
Democratic strategists believe their Tea Party moment has arrived.
Working with labor unions and liberal groups, they are using the Presidents Day congressional recess to organize a public backlash against billions of dollars in cuts to federal programs.
One labor organizer said that members have been urged to attend congressional town-hall meetings to ask Republican lawmakers “pointed questions” about the cuts they supported last week.
“We are targeting various House Republicans in town-hall meetings during the recess to let them know these budget cuts are beyond the pale,” said the labor source, who added that it has been difficult to mobilize supporters to public question-and-answer sessions with lawmakers because “they’ve been pretty circumspect in giving out information about the meetings.”
Justin Ruben, the executive director of MoveOn.org, a progressive advocacy group, has also encouraged members to grill lawmakers at town-hall meetings.
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The fundamental weakness in this strategy is that they are trying to get people to back
liberalism and that is what got the Tea Party motivated to begin with. The more liberals expose their agenda the more other voters will reject it out right. Liberalism is the main reason we have this debt problem and and the expenditures they are wanting to preserve are part of the problem. Voters in large numbers actually want deeper cuts.
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