GOP Sees Positives In Going Negative

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

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Three months after their Election Day drubbing, Republican leaders see glimmers of rebirth in the party's liberation from an unpopular president, its selection of its first African American chairman and, most of all, its stand against a stimulus package that they are increasingly confident will provide little economic jolt but will pay off politically for those who oppose it.

After giving the package zero votes in the House, and with their counterparts in the Senate likely to provide in a crucial procedural vote today only the handful of votes needed to avoid a filibuster, Republicans are relishing the opportunity to make a big statement. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Tex., suggested last week that the party is learning from the disruptive tactics of the Taliban, and the GOP these days does have the bravado of an insurgent band that has pulled together after a big defeat to carry off a quick, if not particularly damaging, raid on the powers that be.

"We're so far ahead of where we thought we'd be at this time," said Rep. Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., one of several younger congressmen seeking to lead the party's renewal. "It's not a sign that we're back to where we need to be, but it's a sign that we're beginning to find our voice. We're standing on our core principles, and the core principle that suffered the most in recent years was fiscal conservatism and economic liberty. That was the tallest pole in our tent, and we took an ax to it, but now we're building it back."


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The party of NO.

[tekisui]

1. They run on "More War, Less Jobs!" and "No We Can't!"

[valerief]

2. Bingo! nt

[amb123]

13. Don't forget "Tax Cuts Solves Everything!"

:puke:

[movonne]

14. Perfect...

[liberal N proud]

3. All they can think about is regaining control of Congress and the White House

The people and the nation matter not to these clowns. They do whatever it takes to regain control. There may be nothing for them to control by then but hey, they will have a immoral victory.

[Tempest]

4. Only 31% of Americans approve of the Repugs on the stimulus bill

How can they be happy about that?

I guess it's an improvement over their 9% Congressional approval from last year.

[KayLaw]

21. Guess they haven't seen the most recent Gallup.

Americans strongly disapprove of their foolish behavior. What a ship of silly fools they are!

[kentauros]

5. "is learning from the disruptive tactics of the Taliban"

Would their base be interested in knowing that they are applying terrorist-tactics to gaining control again, or would they even care, so long at they do regain power? I suspect the latter, after learning from the formerly local redneck that so long as his kind are in power, he's all for fascism :eyes:

[scytherius]

6. Soooo let me get this straight

With polls showing that the public overwhelmingly favors Obama, blames the GOP for this mess, they see a positive in kow towing to the base? Mmmmmmmmmkay.

[LynnTheDem]

7. But nowhere near as much a positive the Dems see in the Rushlic party of No going negative.

Seems the Rushlic Party of No missed hearing how We the People said enough with negative.

[Gin]

8. they had nowhere to go but up...

[LiberalLovinLug]

9. The crickets are louder than ever

I realize that the airwaves are run over by 24/7 wingnut blowhards who are working overtime on explaining the disaster of the "Obama Recession" and his Big Government spending spree, and on TV its 2 to 1 ratio of Republican attack dogs vs. Dems on the defensive (still), but FFS when will someone, ANYONE, on our side of the aisle grow a pair and come out swinging and explain the concept behind 'stimulus'.

Yes they are manufactured jobs that wouldn't exist without this spending, but THAT IS THE POINT. It is meant to 'stimulate' the economy. to carry the country forward. The way you prime a cold engine with a little gas in the carb. And at the same time a lot of needed infrastructure projects will be completed, like roads, schools, and levees.

The ideas of handing the wealthy even more money with the hope that they allow some of it to 'trickle down' to the thirsty masses has been tried and tried again with disastrous results.

That is the only plan McInsane and his cohorts have, which is no plan at all.

Instead Harry Reid is on his knees once again and in the process of stripping out many of those stimulus jobs and adding failed old tax breaks ideas. Setting up the Dems so that when this crippled bill finally passes it will be guaranteed to fail thus setting up the Repukes to crow about how they saw it would fail all along.

In fact Obama should have used his political capital to double the stimulus, with NO TAX BREAKS to the wealthy. Who cares if the Repukes filibuster. Push through something that might actually work instead of this watered down 'bipartisan' bill that the Repukes will disown anyways - even though they will get most of what they asked for and stripped out a lot of the actual stimulus jobs part of the bill.

:mad:

[DemWynner]

10. They are just whiney kids

If they can't get what they want, they just stomp their foot, pout and make life miserable for others.

[DemWynner]

11. They are just whiney kids

If they can't get what they want, they just stomp their foot, pout and make life miserable for others.

[beltanefauve]

12. WTF???

"We're standing on our core principles, and the core principle that suffered the most in recent years was fiscal conservatism and economic liberty."

And the core "principles" suffered under whom??? Thought so.

[benld74]

15. "We're so far ahead of where we thought we'd be at this time"? The party of leaders no doubt!

[krabigirl]

16. Just now they are admitting that they are like the Taliban?

I've thought they were like the Christian Taliban for the past 10 years...

[msongs]

17. those taliban comments ought 2 be in TV ads 24 hrs/7 by dems nt

[grytpype]

18. The media loves it when Repugs beat up liberals.

The Repugs are still going to rule the TV coverage, that's their domain. Meanwhile we will run the country.

[high density]

19. Liberation from Bush?

What a bunch of jokers they are. He'll be around their necks for at least a decade.

[Karenina]

20. May they DROWN in their own feces.

[MrsCorleone]

22. Rep. Paul Ryans (R) comments, now w/ the contents of his thought bubble:

Rep Ryans(R):

"It's not a sign that we're back to where we need to be
[completely fooling the masses in order to rob them blind],
but it's a sign that we're beginning to find our voice [for
our multinational sponsors]."

"We're standing on our core principles [of facilitating
corporate rule], and the core principle that suffered the most
in recent years was fiscal conservatism and economic liberty
[for multi-national conglomerates over the people]. That was
the tallest pole in our tent, and we took an ax to it, but now
we're building it back [to ensure economic devastation for the
masses in order to win back corporate/republican control in
2010.]" 

[DCKit]

23. No spinmeister can sell that delusional B.S. to teh peoples.

I'm imagining all the Republics clapping their hands to keep the party alive.

Please Jesus, just rapture these morans already (yeah, yeah, I know, straight to Hell) so the rest of us can begin to rebuild the U.S. the way it's supposed to be.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. They don't know anything but negative.

Ann Coluter, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Michelle Milaken.....

Need I say more.

[depakid]

25. "We're so far ahead of where we thought we'd be at this time,"

Between Obama's "bipartisanship" fetish- and Congress' incessant pandering and spinelessness- the Republicans will be back in no time.

Like 2010....