The White House seems to have settled on what one Democratic operative calls “The Spaghetti Strategy,” a throw-anything-against-the-wall approach to attacking a carefully targeted group of Republican heavies ahead of Nov. 2.

Senior Democrats say the coordinated attack is less geared at wooing independent voters, who probably aren’t tuning into the latest Beltway food fight, than at energizing liberals, attracting donors and providing a besieged party with a rare opportunity to go on the offensive…

“It’s gotta feel good to get out of the fetal position,” said former Bill Clinton adviser James Carville. “You have to try something, right? You can’t just talk about the economy…

Another former adviser to Bill Clinton said Obama’s attacks are providing “covering fire” to Democratic candidates. “The idea is not to really do damage — nobody really pays attention to this stuff — but to keep the enemy huddled in their foxholes. … If the Republicans are smart, they won’t take the bait.”