Sunday, May 19, 2013

It's time to put the GO in GOP: not governing, not being ethical, not being honest....Buh BYE!

I think it is a fair guess that this is going to backfire on the right quite explosively.

Thanks to ericlews for collecting some of the examples here, at the daily Kos; these are NOT the only instances of this strategy on the right:

Letter from the Heritage Foundation, headed by former Senator until recently, Jim DeMint:
Dear Speaker Boehner and Leader Cantor:
For the first time, the activities of the Obama administration are receiving a sustained public vetting.  Americans’ outrage over Benghazi is amplified by the Internal Revenue Service’s intimidation of conservative grassroots organizations and a cascade of negative headlines.  There is the real sense the Obama administration has been less than forthright with the American people, the press and lawmakers.
Recent events have rightly focused the nation’s attention squarely on the actions of the Obama administration. It is incumbent upon the House of Representatives to conduct oversight hearings on those actions, but it would be imprudent to do anything that shifts the focus from the Obama administration to the ideological differences within the House Republican Conference.
To that end, we urge you to avoid bringing any legislation to the House Floor that could expose or highlight major schisms within the conference. Legislation such as the Internet sales tax or the FARRM Act which contains nearly $800 billion in food stamp spending, would give the press a reason to shift their attention away from the failures of the Obama administration to write another “circular firing squad” article.
Make no mistake, principled conservatives will still oppose bad policy if it comes to the floor.  Rather than scheduling such legislation for consideration, we urge you to keep the attention focused squarely on the Obama administration. As the public’s trust in their government continues to erode, it is incumbent upon those of us who support a smaller, less intrusive government to lead.
Sincerely,
Michael A. Needham
Chief Executive Officer
Heritage Action for America

and from the National Journal:

...Republicans would be much wiser to pursue a third option: Dig up as much damaging information as they can about the Obama administration and leak it to reporters they know will write tough stories that won’t be traced back to the source. That way, the public won’t see the GOP as being obsessed with attacking the other side and playing gotcha at the expense of the big issues facing the country—the ones voters really care about.
Meanwhile, everyone in Washington will watch polls for signs of blood in the water, indications that the controversies or scandals—depending upon your perspective—are taking a political toll on Obama’s job-approval numbers.
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For now, we just watch and wait to see which one—or more—of these issues takes on legs. If none does, will it be something else? History says something always happens in the second term.

2 comments:

  1. So far Obamacare has raised my aunts medicare costs, and increased my health insurance.

    My nephew is serving another tour in Afghanistan.

    No one gives a damn, Republican OR Democrate...they are all in bed with the Corpos.

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  2. Actually a number of small businesses are starting to report their costs of insurance going down already.

    Where costs have not come down, the RATE OF INCREASE has slowed considerably from what it had been.

    Health care costs are also starting to come down.

    So while your costs and your aunt's costs may have gone up, they would have gone up more (in most cases) than they would without Obamacare.

    http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/susan-milligan/2013/03/22/obamacare-is-lowering-some-health-care-costs

    And of course, some 6 million people already have health care who did not before.

    Beyond that, Obamacare doesn't fully begin to go into effect until after January 2014. It is pretty well impossible to contrive to have everyone's rates go down the exact same amount perfectly simultaneously.

    And contrary to the economic baloney promoted by the right wingers, fully implementing Obamacare, not repealing it, is contributing to deficit reduction.

    http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/02/26/conservative-media-echo-misleading-gop-claim-on/192809

    My suggestion is to be a bit patient for a while longer, it's working, but it's not a 'magic bean' instant solution.

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