House Republicans plot their comeback
We all know about the troubles facing congressional Republicans. But never mind all of that, the party says. Now, they’ve crafted a comeback plan.
Confronting a dire outlook for next year’s elections, House Republicans have begun to fight back with a new three-pronged strategy: painting the new Democratic majority as part of an unpopular Washington status quo, forcing Democrats to make unpopular votes on tough issues and locking arms around a new GOP issues agenda. […]
Brian Kennedy, communications director for House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), said the GOP plans to portray its opponents as “the same old tax-and-spend Democratic Party people remember from the 1970s.”
That’s it? Wedge issues and “tax and spend”?
Republicans, in other words, plan to do exactly what they’ve been doing for the better part of my lifetime. This isn’t a “three-pronged strategy,” so much as it’s “the only play in the playbook.”
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I figured it would look like the movie The Siege
The "tax and spend Democrats people remember from the 70s"??? As far as I remember there was a single Dem administration in the 70s. And for the most part, if we are going to remember the 70s... what about remembering the same 70s GOP that brought us Watergate.
Anyhow, it takes a big set of brass for a GOPer to bring the "tax and spend" meme. I rather take "tax and spend" than the "spend it like you got it" GOP of the 2000s.
Fuck'em... fuck the whole lot of them. Anyone voting for the GOP at this point is either brain damage or a big freaking asshole. Or both.
here's a plot for our comeback:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0Nnph3zkHNw
I understand that the 11% aproval rating is due to the obstructionists in congress but I'm not sure if the general population understands this.
And the Democrats will never see it coming. Again.
The only thing the repugs could do to make me consider voting for them is ... well nothing. You'd have to be dead from the neck up to believe a word they say.
"Confronting a dire outlook for next year’s elections, House Republicans have begun to fight back with a new three-pronged strategy: painting the new Democratic majority as part of an unpopular Washington status quo, forcing Democrats to make unpopular votes on tough issues and locking arms around a new GOP issues agenda. […]"
It seems to me, the Republicans are already doing this strategy and it is failing big time.
Isn't one of their 'prongs' taking a wide stance in public restrooms?
Socrates sez,
Nothing great can emerge by committee or compromise. The products of the House and Senate are always doomed to the ranks of mediocrity.
There is one dark horse Republican I would vote for, namely, Ron Paul. He seems determined to restore the entire republic.
What Ron Paul will inherit, should he become our next president, is the workable apparatus of dictatorship under construction since the coup de taut in Dallas with the assassination of JFK, which, by the way, involved Bush Sr. as a CIA participant.
So, once Ron Paul realizes he can be king if he so chooses, will he decline the offer as did George Washington?
it is the same old playplan.
the repugs run the national debt thru the sky, give everything to the rich
and move to wipe out any govt programs that might help the middle and lower income
families.
it's no wonder the democrats always have to bail the country out after any
bastard repug is in office. FUCK ALL THE BASTARDS IN THE GOP
By stealing more elections.
The Republican Party to America: 'We got nothing for you and we really had nothing before."
"FUCK ALL THE BASTARDS IN THE GOP"
We're only fleas upon the earth for a limited time, sonny. After that the big sleep. Nothing in reality can be as important as you seem to think it is.
C&L fan @ 5:
Waddaya mean "never see it coming?" Hell, they'll be holding the door open for 'em.
I don't remember the 1970's.
“'tax and spend' ... the only play in the playbook”
Boy, you sure got that right!
Even more amazing, not only has it never been true, but it's much less true than ever before in history. (Besides, repubs always stand for "borrow and spend".)
Lying about their agenda is just part of their tactics. Remember these bullshit lines?
"States rights" actually means "Keep the negroes down".
"Smaller government" and "Government off our backs" actually mean "No environmental, labor, or consumer safety rules for corporations".
"Low taxes" actually means "Little or no taxes for corporations that give us money"
"Family values" actually means "Throw the religious nuts some bones so we can get their votes"
"National security" actually means "Don't let the voters know what we're up to."
"Tax incentives" actually means "Corporate welfare"
"Defense Department" actually means "War Department"
It just goes on and on, endlessly. There are zillions of those. They come from dickheads like Frank Luntz, may he burn in hell forever.
Perhaps soon people will begin to wake up and realize how they've been played like fiddles for the last forty years. I sure as hell hope so.
GOPBullshit @ 15:
Didn't miss much. Only thing good about them is I was 30 years younger.
You know, if the Republicans would just take the classic Democratic approach (and I'm talking about the classic one, that works) in doing whatever the people say instead of insisting on demeaning the majority, they'd be sure to win.
CD @ 4:
By "obstructionists in Congress" I assume you mean the SPINELESS DEMOCRATS, because that's who's really responsible.
If for the last 6 1/2 years, the Dems had put up even half the resistance that the repubs are showing now, the country would be in far better shape. But they didn't (and still won't), and we aren't.
Those terms remind me of the "Moral Majority," which was neither moral, nor a majority.
Again, I insist everyone watch Kid Nation to learn how people in politics grow up to be who they are.
They already do that: where's the news? It's like "new" "impoved" "Tide" or something. I never notice a difference, just a new package, and a price increase.
me @ 19:
If the Democrats are spineless and don't stand up to anything, then how can they be obstructionists? That doesn't make any sense. I agree with you about the spineless part, but your argument is flawed.
Edwin @ 21:
Haha. But this Republican Party smells like "New Spring" rather than Aqua Velva apparently.
joshdavis @ 22:
It's very simple. For one example, they are obstructing the impeachment and prosecution of the entire administration.
For another, they allow the repubs to get away with their own obstruction. For instance, funding the Iraq war - the Dems pass a law requiring an end to the war as a condition of funding, the repubs block it, the Dems pass funding without the condition. Voila, obstruction accomplished!
By the time the election in 2008 rolls around, the Republican approach will have worked wonders and Democrats will be melting away. Democrats are professionals in pissing away their ability to win anything.
Oh we'll still have Nancy and Harry around to vote like Republicans. The progressive Democrats will all be finally ousted so we will have a complete set of Lieberman Democrats and a complete set of Hard Core Right Wing Republicans.
RickinSF @ 17:
Bite your tongue. I
lovedadored the 70's!!!!! Although: I was a teenager, not interested in politics, had a Whole Earth Catalogue and various accompanying paraphenalia, had a unionized part-time job after school making good money, and lived in Canada.CD @ 4:
Of course they don't. It doesn't fit on a bumper sticker or the door of a NASCAR car.
That's a part of the plan not mentioned. The people don't understand and that's the fault of people like me who taught government in public schools. It's not an easy subject to get across to teenagers with Friday night on their minds.
The Democratic Congresses were Reagan and George II's boogeyman. Though the budget was their's, if Congress pased it, they became tax and spenders.
The drumbeat "tax & spend is already on the street. I always respond, "Better tax and spend than borrow and spend." Then I try to explain that tax cutting is spending. they don't get it.
I really think government should declare a zero spend year. You want something, pay for it. "Excuse me, I'll need $1000 to fight your fire, do you want to put that on your credit card?" "We know bin Laden is on Family Feud, our military is on unpaid leave." Or having to pay $7500 for your kid to attend 5th grade.
The bastards are in the Republican Congress. They know that government costs money, but they'll say anything that sounds good to get elected. The morons are the ones who vote for them.
CD @ 4:
The 11% approval rating is from the general population......the reasons are, no doubt, varied. For the dead enders (the 28 percenters) they're pissed off because they can no longer be entertained, without rebuke, by a steady stream of torture, death and mayhem brought to you by the war criminal in the White House.
Their sensibilities are now chafed by the likes of Representative Stark who speaks the truth.
For the rest of us, we're pissed that Congress has failed to act to stop the same disgusting acts of pure evil perpetrated by the sociopaths who inhabit the leadership ranks of the decaying carcass of the Republican Party.
This is incidently a party that fielded candidates that I have voted for in decades past.
Far less likely for this to occur today.
PS: Don't forget, the 70's were followed by the horrid 80's. Reganomics,
badterrible music, big hair, young Republicans, "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche", and a whole miasma of stiffling B.S., that brought me way down.CD @ 4:
Congress always has a low approval rating. In our single-member districting scheme, people (that is, the people who actually know who their representative is) have a tendency to disapprove of Congress at large, but think that "their guy" is fighting the good fight. The result? Same Congress next time around, same attitude for the next few years. The cycle repeats itself until enough people get really, really pissed, like in 2006. Though, even in 2006, not all that many districts changed hands.
For the moment, Congress' ratings are particularly dismal for obvious reasons. People came out in droves to elect a new Congress. Their expectations have largely gone unfulfilled. Whether they understand precisely why Congress has not done what they wanted is another story.
Basically, Congress always has low approval ratings. Right now, Republicans will uniformly disapprove, while Democrats are disappointed with the people they put into office to change things. It's no real mystery.
RickinSF @ 17:
Awwww, come on. Music like Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin; serious American cinema; the birth of me. It wasn't all bad. :)
The Freewheeling Socrates @ 9:
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Dr. Who @ 2:
I suppose that's what worries everyone -- Bush got a second term.
GOPBullshit @ 15:
Wait a sec... Is that because you were too young, or self induced? Big difference. I vaguely remember being in Amsterdam, even though I was in my twenties.
The stupidity of democratic leadership over the last three decades is simply stunning.
Why have such flawed bumpersticker quotes like 'tax and spend' been allowed to mature into self evident facts? (Tax and spend is fiscally responsible - unlike spend and borrow)
Unless and until the democrats take back language, they are precisely what the republicans say they are.
The democrats are faced with self evident truths (in the minds of the voters) and will pay a price.
Familiar old tax-and-spend Dems are starting to look pretty good right about now.
Might as well make their slogan "Give the neocons another chance!"
Karen @ 31:
Karen....no doubt your birth has brightened the lives of people around you but I'm not sure it has impacted the rest of us.
Edwin @ 34:
Graduated from college. Got married in the 70's to my wife of 28 years (yes we are still going strong). Started my FBI file as I chaired a branch of activists who fought the reintroduction of draft registration. (It was all a big misunderstanding but I guess the FBI didn't think so.) Overall, a pretty good decade.
And besides, Karen was born.
A few months ago I wrote to Pelosi and Reid asking them if they lost the majority in 2008 what would regret not getting done? What would hurt ordinary Americans the most that they could have changed - Ending the war, paper ballets, spying on Americans, election reform, health care? What issue will they think that they should have gone to the mat fighting for, once they lose power. Over what issue will they say: if we had known then what we know now...? What will they hang their heads in shame over?
They are such fools as to think their majority is assured just by doing nothing.
The worst part is that even though the Dems know it's coming they'll still fall for it and end up getting their asses handed to them.
Yes, and the Democrats have been incompetent since the 1970s as well. In other words, the Democrats are the Republicans enablers. As we have all seen in the past year, the Democrats cave easily to Bush. It would be nice if the Democrats even without the required votes to override Bush would at least stand united in opposition instead of saying oh well, not enough votes so we must placate Bush and the Republicans by going along with such things as illegal wiretaps and more funding for the Iraq debacle. Nancy Pelosi is an awful Speaker and as much as I could not stand Newt Gingrich, a much weaker leader than the blabbermouth from Georgia. Nancy Pelosi is an awful "leader" of the Democratic Party as is her sidekick Steny Hoyer. The Democratic Party has failed its liberal and progressive base and even moderates who thought change would be imminent. The Democrats help the Republican cause every damn day with their sheer incompetence, as Pelosi, Hoyer, and Harry Reid demonstrate. Oh, and that Hillary Clinton will be the same like war mongerer that George W. Bush is as well. Mrs. Clinton has been getting campaign cash from the big defense industries far ahead of her opponents on both sides. Hillary Clinton is the Republican's favorite Democrat. Just ask Rupert Murdoch who he likes as the next president--Hillary Rodham Clinton....not much difference these days with America's two imperial political parties.
Betty @ 39:
Betty.....that is such a brilliant approach. As we live our lives and approach our deaths, it is less about what we've done, but what we've failed to do. Your question springs from a wisdom that can only come from someone who questions their reason for existence. You must brighten the lives and lighten the load of those who know you.
I won't be surprised if they find a way to let Dems take ownership of the FISA bill since it is so unpopular across the country.
It's not going to work this time. As a long time republican myself, I will not vote GOP in 2008 so long as the GOP continues with the fear mongering and smear campaigns. I've had enough. Either offer meaningful solutions or shut the fuck up and go home. Fear and smear won't cut it this time.
The GOP could impress the hell out of me by supporting Dodd's block of the telco immunity. If you really are the party that defends freedom and liberty, you can demonstrate it by defending the Constitution here at home. Take a stand against fascism or go down in flames in 2008.
They aren't voting for republicans - they are voting against abortion. They don't care what harm they inflict on already born humans - here in America and around the world.
They are in thrall to unscruplous religious leaders who use the single issue to rake in money and make themselves relevant.
What is the answer?
I have read and heard here and there that there were fewer abortions during the Clinton years, where there was at least an attempt at social justice. I have also read that in countries where abortion has been made illegal women are dying.
I think some of the people on the religious right who are beginning to see the importance of other issues can be reasoned with. Using those two facts about abortion, a promise to work for social justice and protection of the planet.
Others are hopeless.
Shared Humanity @ 37:
Just you wait. ;)
Shared Humanity @ 38:
The war was very real for young Americans-- UNLIKE TODAY!! Canada didn't send troops, so it was a bit different. I remember the pictures in "Time" and "Life" (a Canadian teenager then), the music, the hippies. I was "proud" draft dodgers came to Canada. I had long hair and frayed-- patched-- jeans and love beads. I was very anti-Vietnem!! Had I been older, and Americam, for sure I'd have an FBI file (or worse) (but I probably do now anyway, so what's the diff.?) Unless you lived then, you don't know what chords that music strikes inside. Gimme some Jimi... "Turn on, tune in, drop out", meant something.
It's the republican SOS, just a different day. How predictable, and of course it's all they've got. How tragic. They're so predictable, you'd think the Dems could come up with an effective strategy knowing their game plan never changes.
Tax and spend versus borrow and spend? The Republicans may be able to sell it, but following the Nasdaq and housing bubbles, I think the next bubble to burst will be a debt bubble. Only question I have is whether it will burst on Bush's watch, or the next President's. I also wonder if, at some point, even if the Fed lowers interests rates, whether Federal instruments financing the national debt will still have to carry higher interest rates in order to entice foreign investors concerned about currency devaluation. They are auction markets.
As far as spending is concerned, from building bridges to nowhere and the pissing away of $400B in Iraq, and currently spending half the world's expenditures on military items, the Republicans can hardly lay claim to being thrifty. Rather, the Republicans are largely responsible for turning the U.S. from being a creditor nation to a debtor nation.
The Republicans and Democrats have supported this free trade initiative which has created an enormous trade deficit. This gives countries, such as China, funds that can be invested. Such countries are creating "Sovereign Wealth Funds" (SWFs) for such investments, such as our stock market. So, your corporate owned politician is owned by multinational corporations, with multinational operations and multinational owners. Is it any wonder why these politicians don't represent ordinary Americans anymore? It's because the politician's owners are increasingly non-Americans.
GOP comeback? The world is still waiting for the part when they go the fuck away.
Blue Buddha @ 11:
yes this will be thier come back plan, more voter rolls purges, better fixed voteing machines , crooked tricks , dumping any paper ballots in the shitter, voteing five times instead of once and if it comes down to it getting the pimps they have in the supreme court to just hand the whitehouse to them , this is the sighn of things to come,
As some of you know I sometimes go visit the wrongwing sites....their scheming and think they have a good chance at the White house.Yep...I couldn't believe my eyes.....then I thought about voting machines.Here in Monterey Ca....we have gone back to paper ballots...or at least a paper reciept.This will be the first year...last year was e-vote....with all that being said....The wrongwing is so full of themselves they think they can't be beat.(yeah..I know).Wouldn't it be nice to hear them claim a stolen election.......................
Is that all they've got? Seems to me, back in the 70's there was such a thing as a prospering middleclass, affordable health insurance, and pension plans. The common-good was still a popular notion, and repukes didn't have a 25 year track record of stealing half the wealth in the country; while creating the greatest welfare state ever (the corporate welfare state that the top 5% enjoys exclussively.)
Add to that all of the wonderful things derugulation has accomplished (for the betterment of society) such as poison toys, contaminated food imports, lethal pet food, Orwellean media conglomerates, and a banking industry that has legalized loan sharking, and I think the GOPERS have a real winning formula on their hands.
Add the fact that Clinton left Dumbya a surplus, and I think they GOP definitely have the upper-hand with this platform.
If I were the republicans, I would just shut-up, lay low, and wait for the pathetic Dem leadership to blow it again. Seems to me, the only thing the repukes have going for them is their oppostition.
boosh will finally get OBL....right before the election.Either that or we will be attacked again...right before the election.
well, if that's how the Repiglicans want to play, we'll remind voters that the GOP is the same old Teapot Dome party which people remember from the 1920s.
But seriously... an entire generation and more has been born since the 1970s. They don't remember stagflation or dirty fucking hippies, but they do remember the ridiculous Clinton witch-hunt of the 1990s. They remember that the GOP thrives on gay-bashing and war-mongering and fear-mongering.
The GOP is condemning itself to irrelevancy with crap like this. Good riddance.
Since we have an administration full of Nixon cronies it makes sense that the GOP want to go back to the 1970's.
Iraq was Bush Jr. rescuing his Dad's rep and the current move back to the Nixon form of presidency (enemies list, paranoia, and secrecy) is Cheney's attempt to rescue Nixon.
Back then the press was clueless until Woodstein started getting it right.
I'm sure I'll start seeing NRA commercials telling me how democrats are gonna take away my guns. The republicans had their chance and did nothing but make sure there was lots of corporate welfare along with their lying cheating and stealing. It'll be a cold day in hell before I'll vote for a republican again.
The only plot they'll need to worry about is the one that comes with a headstone.
RIP
GOP
I also believe that only the Democratic Party can fuck up their massive advantage against the Rethugs in 2008. And from looking at their actions lately- by not sticking up for their base, for not doing what they were elected to do, for condemning moveon.org, for rebuking Pete Stark, for giving GWB everything he wants, for betraying the people that gave them both houses of Congress -it looks as though they are beginning to do a pretty good job of fucking up already. I think we need to CONSTANTLY hammer these mother-fuckers until they realize we are NOT the kind of voters who are just going to go to the polls in 2008 and automatically pull the levers for them so they can sit back and enjoy their donations from AT&T and the rest of the corporate corruptors. I can easily stay home in November '08 and watch movies on TCM, while occasionally switching over to another network to see traitorous Dems being beaten by REAL Republicans, who are indistinguishable from them and their enabling of Bush's policies. Let them know that there are REAL Democrats out there who WILL do the work of the people and WILL run against them and WILL win, because we are fed up with being shit on by the people we elected to change things in this country who only remain in Congress because they are not even qualified to be hired as greeters at Wal-Mart. The DLC and the Blue Dogs need to be flushed down the john, as their support for Bush and the status quo leaves skidmarks on the bowl. I am tired of Democrats allowing this rancid administration to piss all over our Constitution. Pete Stark is speaking truth to power. Let us all follow his example.
more Dobsonism meets Norquistism from the party of "personal responsibility" while blaming others for their failures
Bush the Liar @ 57:
Again?
Doug @ 56:
Doug...Would you be referring to Woodward and Bernstein?....just askin.
As republicans plan their comeback, the rest of the country will plan its republican smackdown.
I hope it hurts.
mudshark @ 61 Says:
Bush the Liar @ 57:
I’m sure I’ll start seeing NRA commercials telling me how democrats are gonna take away my guns. The republicans had their chance and did nothing but make sure there was lots of corporate welfare along with their lying cheating and stealing. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I’ll vote for a republican again.
Again?
Now, now. I don't want to be a member of any group that requires all its members be pure as the driven snow since conception. I'm happy to welcome all converts into this big ol' liberal tent, for they have seen the light and the error of their ways, can I have a hallelujah and amen, brother!
"the same old tax-and-spend Democratic Party people remember from the 1970s.”
Ah, those bastards are going for the youth vote again.
Whip Inflation Now!
nonny mouse @ 64:
Hallelujah.....Amen..........
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Dod Zamit.....I hate it when that happens..........
Dom @ 59:
Whatever raunchy repugs. What-the fuck-ever.
Yes dems do tax and spend to the betterment of the US while the repugs tax and steal for themselves.
BTW -- This is how repugs spend money.
HAHAHAHAHAHA Yeah right
[at]55 Renato:
"dirty fucking hippies" ---> Where does this come from? You undertsnad nothing about hippies, obviously. Sure they looked different, and had ideas of peace and love. Nothing dirty about it. It was a counter-culture.
mudshark @ 67 "Dod Zamit.....I hate it when that happens.........."
The key, which I just blew above, is to delete the colon, which apparently carries the formatting.
Terrible @ 8:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
repugs take a wide stance to pretend they have balls.
"House Republicans plot their comeback"
Thanks for the warning.
Plot away, mofos.
There still have to be few people willing to stand up to Truman.
Same old 'whine' (pun intended) but a brand new bottle.
Republicans - so boring. (yawn).
If they plan on talking tax and spend they have a lot of explaining to do. Let's start with the bridge to nowhere vs. schip.
Something tells me that they are going to need a genie for this one. There is likely a very good reason why so many are not seeking re-election.
This "strategy" illustratess the basic problem of republicans. They can't understand that a good PR campaign is not what Americans are looking for. People want good policies, not the most expensive PR money can buy.
"Brian Kennedy, communications director for House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), said the GOP plans to portray its opponents as “the same old tax-and-spend Democratic Party people remember from the 1970s.”
They sounds like a brilliant plan. Vote for us or the other party might be like they were three decades ago. Ignore the fact that we have broken all records for spending.
Ingenious.
It is almost irrelevant whether House Republicans are in the minority or the majority. Other then some hearings where the Democrats huff and puff and do nothing further, I do not see any difference in U.S. government policies since the Democrats took over Congress last January. This is especially true regarding Iraq, the principal issue on which the Democrats ran and won the majority in 2006. The key fact seems to be that Congressional Democrats, both in the House and the Senate, do not have the guts to take actions which have real consequences for the Bush Administration, such as restricting Iraq War funding, voting to impeach Bush or Cheney, adopting and enforcing contempt of Congress citations, etc. Everything else is meaningless hot air.
mudshark @ 62:
"Woodstein" was Washington Post Editor-in-Chief Ben Bradlee's shortcut term for Woodward and Berstein.
I suspect that the Repugs are hiding their true plans: I think when the time comes they will point to all of the caving and appeasing of the congressional Dems and suggest that this shows they are weak. And not leaders.
I hope the Dems chart a new course - that they start showing strength and gain a mandate from the voters thereby. Instead of just a "well, they are slightly less undesirable than the Repugs" or worse a "why should we give them any power? I'm not voting for spinelessness".
"Remember the 70s!" ...yeah, that's a really great campaign slogan, given that something like 20% of the potential electorate wasn't even BORN then, and about 40% weren't old enough to vote until after the oil shocks.
I'd say even bringing up the concept of "Tax and spend" is like political suicide given the last 8 years, but that's not entirely true--the GOP hasn't been taxing, just spending. How's that working out for you guys?
mudshark @ 62:
Sorry about that. Yes, Woodward and Bernstein.
Their early stories were dismissed by the rest of the MSM in the day. No one believed a sitting President would try to subvert the Consitution.
Look at how strong this republican "minority" is. You want to see strength in the minority? Look at it. GWB has been able to get everything he ever wanted. Yes, a lame duck president, an unpopular war, the middle class economy going in the shitter and a democratic majority. Yes, the most unpopular president in history, who has been proven to have lied, and tortured, and set up crony politics And STILL the president gets everything he wants. The democrats have done less in the majority than the republicans in the MINORITY.
5 years ago, I thought that the dems were weak because they were in the minority. Now I know that they are all just pussies. Come on. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They are spineless pussies. Nobody in DC gives a shit about the middle class. No one cares. It's all a political game to all of them - as long as they keep their seats, as long as they manipulate the vote, all is well.
I used to be a strong democrat. I think I'm an independent now. In fact, I don't even know if I'll go to the polls. Screw the dems. Pussy bastards.
The new Republican three pronged strategy is the same as the old Republican three pronged strategy:
Spin.
Lie.
Divide.
...the Republican Party: State Sponsored Political Terrorism.
Just a word of warning. But that is a pretty good strategy. It's worked in the past.
For the love of God, i hope the centrists don't buy it.
We need a counter stratedy. CHIP seemed to work wonders.
Hype-Jersey @ 85:
EXACTLY
When can we start hunting politicians?
You didn't really think they were aboutto stop lying now did you?
They like the corrupting sinking feeling.
This new strategy shows the Republicants cant learn from history. They want to try and scare people with high taxes while compleatly ignoring the actuall concerns of the people. It shows that these people dont believe in confronting real issues, they would much rather focus on spinning talking points for their entire arguments. I for one dont believe that it will work, if their new strategy consists only of the tax scare, then they are going to lose even worse than they did last year.
Like who the hell will be listening to them?. We are far to busy plotting their dismissal to hear anything they may have to say.
Who the hell do they think will forget about the millions of American children they have denied health coverage.
The change the subject game is stale and they need to have the shit slapped out of them for even talking to any American citizen after what they have helped Bush do to destroy many of our lives.
The bastards must be crazy, or worse yet think we are.
Hype-Jersey @ 85:
How true. As I said earlier, the only thing the repukes have going for them is their opposition.
Just look at the democratic 2008 nominee. The only person who could possibly lose to the repukes is Hillary. Yet, the democrats are gonna pick her.
Even if she does squeak out a victory, she will cost the democrats several house and senate seats they otherwise would have won. Why, because she will polarize every wingnut idiot to the polls.
Personally, I for one will not vote for Hillary (Mrs. Free-Trade) under any circumstance. Why should I? I know, because the evil repukes will win. Well, for me, as a true believer in government "by the people," this country needs to get away from the polarizing Bush/Clinton death dance. Are we living in midevil England where it's either the Tudors or the Stewarts? WTF!
I also believe that any repuke will get 5-10% of the vote, just because people are sick of the Bushes and the Clintons. And besides, Hillary is nothing but a corporate candidate with a "d" next to her name. Not to mention the tiny detail that nobody (including all my liberal and moderate friends) likes her. NOBODY!! We need to get back to a democratic party (FDR style) that truly represents the American people.
Unfortunately, that may take another eye-opening, "stunning" election defeat in 08', before FDR'S party realizes that the DLC version of republican-lite is truly passed it's expiration date with the american people.
Ah yes, the party of stupid (democrats) rides again! Why is it that the democrats always bring a batch of cup-cakes to a gunfight??
You really believe they would tell anybody their plans?!? My guess is they are locked away in Cheney's office safe being guarded by Blackwater personnel. I would also guess that Cheney will declare the outcome of the election to be "Top Secretive". "For his eyes only" And anybody insisting on knowing the election results will be branded a traitor and hauled away by more Blackwater personnel. He will insist that he knows what is best for america then declare himself King!
Like the Nazis, until the GOP Members of Congress are prosecuted, they are able to cause problems. They belong in jail -- they and their legal counsel in DoJ-OVP-WH remain domestic threats to the US Constitution. They need to be prosecuted.
And finally, if all else fails, they have what has come to be called the "Newkyalur Option".
This involves taunting members of the Democratic majority with cat-calls of "Neener-Neener", pointing at them while accusing them of being in possession of "Koo-teez", and/or running away from them, laughing, whenever they are in the immediate vicinity.
This option is so named due to the fact that it virtually amounts to political suicide. There will be a brief moment of satisfaction at unleashing the "first strike", but when the Democratic majority recovers, and they will, their teasing will be swift, merciless and unforgiving. None will be spared, and the humiliation will be endless.
Edwin @ 70:
the blogosphere, specifically I believe the phrase originated with Atrios.
It's tongue-in-cheek. Here, have a toke of this and relax bro!
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