air cover

The left has got to have the slowest moving machine ever.

We've heard promises that the unions are going to be running ads targeting vulnerable Dems, both encouraging them to vote for it, thanking them if they do, and challenging them in primaries if they do not. The DNC has put out an ad attacking the GOP, but not one that really provides targeted support to vulnerable Democrats who are being blitzed in their districts by the Republican's "Code Red" strategy.

And finally, today, MoveOn has decided to join the fray.

Member survey on the health care bill

**RESULTS: 83% support, 17% oppose**

Meaning presumably, in the next couple of days, they are going to start preparing ads, running ads, organizing phone banks, etc. Organizing for America has been doing similar work, but at a much reduced pace from last year, or hell even from January and February.

So these reassurances that I hear about how there will be air cover, even enough to match the $10 million that the Chamber of Commerce, insurance groups, and others will be spending opposing health care, leave me somewhat skeptical. When will we see them? This weekend? Next week?

It feels like watching the Tsarist Russian army trying to mobilize: the slowly-grinding gears that will, sometime by this summer, finally be ready to combat the Prussian onslaught. Hell by that point the GOP might have already taken France.

So while the left has definitely improved its overall infrastructure since 2006, we're still no match for the organized right.