Ari Melber reports that Organizing for America is moving aggressively to tie vulnerable Republicans to their opposition to health care reform:

In an unusually aggressive move, Organizing for America announced Wednesday that it is mobilizing its volunteer army to confront the 32 Republican legislators who voted against health care reform — despite representing districts that voted for Obama.

The pressure campaign is designed “to remind these members that voters in their districts voted for change last year,” explain OFA officials, “and urge them to reconsider their position when the House votes again on a final bill later this year.”

I’m pretty sure you’re not going to get much reconsideration. But the aggressiveness of the approach does suggest that OFA will run hard in these districts in 2010. Given the headwinds it would probably be a mistake to expend lots of resources trying to win districts when lots of money would be needed for defense, but OFA’s distributed network makes it easy for local activists to work in this fashion.

Meanwhile, in the Senate, the head of the chief campaign arm is talking up Al Franken’s amendment that put 30 Senate Republicans in a position of voting for blocking rape victims from a day in court:

Thirty Senate Republicans voted against the amendment, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, liberal commentators and state Democratic Party chairs have been merciless.

Angry letters denouncing Republican senators have appeared in newspapers from Tennessee to Idaho. Unflattering videos of senators trying to explain their votes have gone viral on the Internet, including one of Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) swatting away a hand-held video camera held by a liberal blogger questioning his vote against the amendment.

And Democratic strategists are salivating at the prospects of using the vote against the eight GOP senators who voted against the amendment and are up for reelection in 2010.

“I think anyone who voted against that has some tough explaining to do,” New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, told POLITICO. “And I think particularly some incumbents already in a challenged position — it can be very detrimental to them because women voters are going to look at that and wonder, ‘Does this senator stand on my side?’”

Politico hilariously tries to come up with an “on the other hand” element, speculating that it would backfire on Franken. Because there’s such a substantial pro-rape vote in Minnesota.

The best part about this strategy is that is makes it highly unlikely that the same Congressional leadership would strip the amendment from the bill, if they want to use it as a campaign talking point. At least I hope so.