AAA

August 8, 2022

I love AAA. It is the one bill I don’t mind paying. I can’t count the number of times I have had to call them to charge my battery, repair a tire, give me a tow, or something else. They always respond, and respond quickly. The Democratic Party needs to take its cue from AAA. It needs to respond quickly and effectively before the mid-terms to counter Republican attempts to deflect voters from its non-agenda. Democrats Ned to focus on AAA for the mid-terms…Abortion, Arms and Air. Democrats are energized by Republican attempts to curtail a women’s right to control her own body, their attempts to limit safe and sane gun restrictions on weapons of war, and their abject refusal to deal with and vote for legislation to deal with a warming climate.

President Biden can list a number of substantive achievements in his first two years…the Inflation Reduction Act, the Recovery Relief Act, student loan forgiveness, meaningful gun legislation, reenergizing the NATO coalition in support of Ukraine, the distribution of COVID vaccines, the CHIPS legislation, the naming of a Supreme Court Justice, and the prosecution of hundreds of January 6th insurrectionists. In almost every case, the only thing that Republicans have offered is crickets.

This is an enviable and sellable record, which will motivate some voters, but it will be AAA that drives them to the polls. Women are scared to death by the Hobbs Supreme Court decision. Parents are scared to death sending their children to school. And young people are scared to death about the planet they will be inheriting. These are powerful motivators, and that is a powerful coalition.