"Larry Pratt of Gun Owners for America is one of those savant types like Michael Barone. Where Barone can tell you everything about your neighborhood regardless of him ever having been there, Larry Pratt can quote you chapter and verse of legislation passed and the maneuverings to pass it.

"Many of us have been pounding the drum for weeks and weeks that Mitch McConnell’s 'messaging strategy' to defeat the health care deform legislation was half-hearted and not going to work.

"Many of you responded sympathetically to McConnell’s plight, though I contend that any strategy premised on keeping Olympia Snowe strategy is doomed to failure.

"There was a better strategy all along. Judd Gregg outlined it in a memo weeks and weeks ago. It fell on deaf ears in the Minority Leader’s office. I wrote my now heavily trafficked post 'Fight' that suggested similar tactics.

"Finally the Senate GOP seemed to be responding, but by and large it was too little too late.

"Out of frustration, Larry Pratt pulled forth from his database of Senate debacles Mitch McConnell’s history of defeating big ticket, controversial items."

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