I just got an email from dscc.org asking my opinion about some new slogans for bumper stickers. None of their choices really got my juices flowing so I added my own.
Here's the email:
Do you have a few choice words about what’s happening now that Republicans control the House of Representatives? We sure do. Now, your few choice words could grace bumpers on Democratic cars from coast to coast as part of the DSCC’s slogan contest.
We’re launching a campaign to find a short, pithy way to sum up why it’s so important to keep the Senate in Democratic hands in 2012, and we want – scratch that – NEED your input.
Click here to read some of the slogans we came up with, then vote on your favorite. Or if you've got a better idea, by all means, send us a suggestion!
So here were their choices:
We've Got Your Back, Barack
Repeal Republicans in 2012
Had Enough Tea?
Brick by Brick, We're Building a Firewall
Hey GOP You're Firewalled!
Beyond the message of a magnetic sticker (way to show your loyalty to the cause!) ...ummmm, color me underwhelmed. Of course bumper stickers need to be short, to the point and catchy, or you're driving down the street tailgating, trying to read the darn thing. But nothing here really points to the ground swell of rage over the corporatists raiding the riches of a wealthy nation and then tromping the middle class into the mud and taking off with our lunch money, our dinner money and grandma's bunco change from the cookie jar.
That's when it hit me. What is more familiar than the cookie jar?
My favorite new joke has been making the rounds here, in diaries, facebook statuses, even on our front page:
"A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it.
The CEO takes 11 cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, 'Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.' "
To me, this is the perfect metaphor for what is happening to us all. The corporatocracy has absconded with our wealth and has set up the false struggle between the tea party and the unions. The tea party's gripe is that no one is listening to them, no one hears their grievances. The tea party needs collective bargaining! Good grief, the unions and the tea partiers should be natural allies.
So how about "I want ALL my cookies back"?