Lefty Groups Planning Massive Research Dig On GOP Stimulus “Hypocrisy”

[babylonsister]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/stimulus-package/lefty-groups-planning-massive-research-dig-on-gop-stimulus-hypocrisy/

Lefty Groups Planning Massive Research Dig On GOP Stimulus “Hypocrisy”


One of the more interesting Beltway developments in recent years has been the growth of a kind of research strike force apparatus on the left that — while publicly kept at arm’s length by the White House — clearly helps to shape the narrative and drive the Obama/Dem agenda.

Now three of the most prominent groups — the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Media Matters Action Network, and Americans United For Change — are plotting a massive new research push designed to drive the storyline that Republicans are hypocrites on the stimulus.

The groups are planning to blitz a whole series of Federal agencies with Freedom of Information Act requests designed to ferret out which Republican officials across the country made private requests for funding under the Recovery Act. Among the targeted agencies: The Departments of Education, Justice, Defense, and Housing & Urban Development.

The goal: To highlight GOP officials who opposed the Recovery Act but are now enjoying the successes of the stimulus in their states and districts. “We will keep hammering at Republican hypocrisy until they publicly admit what we all know: the Recovery Act is working,” says MMAN spokesman Chris Harris.

While there’s no evidence that this is being coordinated with the White House, this message is clearly going to be central to the administration’s political strategy in the 2010 elections, and they will benefit from any findings the groups produce.

To be sure, Republicans dismiss this whole strategy as little more than a joke, predicting it won’t have any impact in any local races. And some in the traditional media will dismiss the group’s research as partisan and, therefore, tainted.

But the new and fractured media landscape does make it easier for such groups to help shape the narrative and drive the conversation.

[leftstreet]

1. What a waste of time. The Republican party is dead

Broken, busted.

[babylonsister]

2. Why is this a waste of time? You might think the rethug party is

dead, but I'm assuming you're not a rethug. There are a whole lot of people that are.

[DJ13]

5. The Republican party is dead

They should be, but with so many Blue Dog Dems the voters are confused as to which party is the conservative one the GOP has remained alive.

Why vote for an imitation when the real thing is on the same ballot?

[femrap]

6. You are under the illusion

that American Independents and other voters are well-informed, intelligent people.

Put the coffee on or get some Red Bull....you gotta wake up.

[leftstreet]

7. Wait. Were independents uninformed when they voted for Obama?

:shrug:

[femrap]

14. They're easily

manipulated. Push one button for Fear, another for Greed, another for Change.

42% of college grads never read another book. (From Chris Hedges' new book, "Illusions of Empire."

And maybe stupid people are attracted to me and that's all I hear. But when we have a MSM that is reporting what Murdoch and the other PTB's crap, no asshole or group of assholes is ever dead.

All of those Independents voted for Raygun twice and the Bushes FOUR times. Obama got elected only because the youth came out and McPalin was just too scary....and the 'Change' button was pushed frequently.

2010 could be good the repugnants.

[Donnachaidh]

13. think of this as stocking up on wooden stakes and garlic

I welcome this sort of journalism -- have the information on hand to battle future revisionist history reporting.

[roguevalley]

16. why stop at stimulus. EXPOSE THEM ALL!

my, that was satisfying. :P

[KansDem]

3. This wouldn't be happening without the Internet

Every time I think about how the media is corrupted and act only "to catapult the propaganda," I shudder to think where we would be without the Internet...

[BrklynLiberal]

9. VERY true.

That is why Iran govt moves to shut down the internet and cell phone access at every hint of revolutionary movement.

[progressoid]

10. Thank Dog, Al Gore invented it!

;)

[BrklynLiberal]

11. LOL

:thumbsup: :hi:

[bridgit]

4. With republicans flipping people off in the halls of congress for years now the effort...

Is a bit behind the curve - but rapid fact check & response is important and if this is the beginning then its good to finally see it

[BrklynLiberal]

8. CAP, MM and AUC are incredible groups.

They have been at the forefront of many of the most progressive activities that have occurred in the past decade.

[old mark]

12. Funny-it's dismissed as "partisan, therefor tainted" when the left does it legitimately,

but when the GOP LIES about stuff and presents it as fact, the media reports it as truth for months.

A little bias?

The GOP might be nearly dead, but anything that will help nail the coffin shut is worth doing...they have come back before and they are not really finished yet.

Put a stake through their dirty hearts.

mark

[Syrinx]

15. didn't Rachel Maddow already do that?