Fear??

Damn teapartiers.

"tchochkes."

This is the first time I've ever seen this word written out. How many of you knew what it means?

"How many of you knew what it means?"

I'm from NYC. Half our language is Yiddish.

#3 -I think it's missing a "t."

I hear that. I get confused looks when I use that word down here in NC. I also gave up saying "mazel tov."

LOL.

Hehe, depends if they're using it as "trinkets" or "easy chicks"....

and again we say

what happened to
cleaning the swamp
a 'change' in how dc works..
well we are getting that..its called CHICAGO STYLE

and again we say

Quick deflect! Ignore the subject!

The subject is the RNC, not some state's republican committee, not some local one, but the actual RNC. They are so freaked about the fall off in donations from their traditional sources, that they've embraced the Tea Party BS. Dripping with disdain for the donors, they don't see this very attitude is the problem.

Reminds me exactly of how they used Evangelical Christians. Poor Kuo.

If the average Republican knew what the rich fat cats who run thier party really thought of them and know about their agenda no one earning less than $250K would ever vote Republican.

If the average Republican knew

Until Rush or Glenda tell them, they'll never know. Guys like aflac are just happy dancing monkeys for the party of Ken Lay and Fail Fiorina.

Former GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough hits the nail on the head when he refers to such GOP money raising tactics as shameful, juvenile and embarassing.

Sleazy GOP Scare Tactics Accidentally Leaked

Posted by moder8 at 07:14 PM | 1 COMMENT | permalink | Comment on This Entry

The best path to victory in 2010, the document advises, is for Republican candidates to depict themselves as the best hope for resisting the "trending toward socialism"

The always attention-starved Moder8 posts this nonsense-- apparently with a straight face.

Ya, straight face for a straight laced MO by the GOP. This is nothing new. In the past it's been 'weak on defense' or 'weak on terror' or some other BS.

The last time the GOP ran on anything proactive was 1994. Unfortunately, they never enacted a single one of their "Contract on America" goals - even when they had Congress and the WH.

Lron: It's all over Yahoo and MSNBC. Guaranteed it will be big news over the next several days. Sorry if that doesn't sit well with your rightwing cheerleading.

It is soooo eeeeeeevil. Horrible! Lefties should be afraid. Oh, the outrage! Those that are outraged are the very same that brought us doom and gloom with global warming, swine flu, the need for Obama's healthcare, the economy without trillion dollar spending and a host of other fears. LMAO!!!

KBM: Set aside your partisan bullshit aside for a moment. Don't you agree that ANYBODY viewing these tactics would agree they are inappropriate? I really think this goes beyond partisanship. Any sensible person is going to acknowledge that the GOP leadership is going way overboard. (I hate to see kneejerk defense of sleaze from the Left or Right.)

Let me see if I understand...

Dems want to take over health insurance, the pres has fired a ceo (or was it 2?) over at gm, and have been making noise about crap-n-tax, environmental changes [breathing is now considered a toxic waste?] ...

And repubs call these gov't takeovers/powergrabs socialism... which they are...

Where's the scare tactics?

Now, if they said "obama is going to rape your children" or something... that would be a scare tactic... but "they are stealing your children's freedoms" is perfectly accurate.

Dems want to take over health insurance

Why are the right still repeating the long debunked bunk?

Since when are people choosing from the government employee insurance pool of PRIVATE insurance company plans having their HI taken over by 'the government'?

Libs talking about inappropriate scare tactics - TOO FUNNY!

Are "Politico.com" libs? Who knew? Guess they are only when they report something the right doesn't like.

The leaked GOP scare tactics are FUNNY!

Here's another tidbit from Politico.com:

Why are the right still repeating the long debunked bunk?

well it depends on which dems you are talking about.

The ones in DC? no..not trying to take over healthcare.

extreme leftwing wackjob bloggers like AU? praying for the dems to take over health care.

Eberly

Let's hear your take on how buying into a large government employee pool of private insurers is a 'government takeover'.

Let's hear your take on how buying into a large government employee pool of private insurers is a 'government takeover'.

It isn't.

"Let's hear your take on how buying into a large government employee pool of private insurers is a 'government takeover'."

I think you mean a government "run" pool. The dems in Congress have already said, they want nothing to do with this reform, when it comes to theirs and the rest of the federal government employees insurance programs they currently have.

Eberly

That's what I'd like to be able to do, and what the HC bill proposes we'd be allowed to do; choose from the same list of health care insurers Congressmen can and get good coverage for a decent price.

So, I don't get the 'government takeover of health care' talk. Not if anyone's informed about what the HC bill actually contains.

CRISPEE

At the summit last Thursday, it was made clear the public would be able to buy into the same pool of insurers government employees can. I'd like to be able to. Our premiums have gone up well over 100% the last 10 years.

PS Any oversight of such a pool, ensuring the plans are adequate and meet certain standards, is not what I'd consider a 'government takeover' by any stretch of the imagination.

BTW, Eberly, I voted for Lamar Alexander (R) for Senate because I thought he was a great governor, a position for which I also voted for him. I know you love throwing around these 'left wing' memes, but frankly, the more I hear those harangues the less likely I am to ever vote R ever again.

"At the summit last Thursday, it was made clear the public would be able to buy into the same pool of insurers government employees can."

Yeah, as I have been reminded here before" reading is fundamental" and I misread that one. Although I do have this for you AU, don't take it personally.

#3 AU, #4 moder8
This is nothing new. In the past it's been 'weak on defense' or 'weak on terror' or some other BS.

The last time the GOP ran on anything proactive was 1994. Unfortunately, they never enacted a single one of their "Contract on America" goals - even when they had Congress and the WH.

None of this is new. Of course the GOP thinks/portrays this every day, from tea parties to their fake pundits. That is exactly the point.

What you're missing is that MODER8 should be bright enough to realize that it is completely non-sensical that a "document was leaked" [even if Yahoo/MSNBC say so] stating the GOP shoulddepict themselves as the best hope for resisting the "trending toward socialism"

Our premiums have gone up well over 100% the last 10 years.

#17 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

Mine went up 25% just since last year, and that's even though (or maybe because) I have one of JeffJ's favored HSA's and a $5000.00 deductible. So where is that savings Jeff? Oh yea, the insurance company is still getting it.

CRISPEE

How could I take that personally?

Someone with 'La Tourette' (Tourette's Syndrome) shouldn't be mocked. LOL

WHATSLEFT

When Sen. Enzi brought up HSA's, Obama responded that sure, they're fine if you're making $176,000 a year as Congressmen do, but if you're a family of four trying to get by on $40,000 pretax income, it's gonna be nearly impossible to save $2750 a year.

KEEP YOUR FILTHY GOVERNMENT HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE!

family of four trying to get by on $40,000 pretax income, it's gonna be nearly impossible to save $2750 a year

They should have thought about that before they let their good paying job with health insurance get outsourced to China.

Big deal. 72 pages, and all they can come up with is "trending toward Socialism", and a cut-and-paste of popular t-shirts?

Grasping at straws again, libbies. Go ahead though.

My bet RisR gives to those who massage his ego the most.

The Ivar Kruegers of the world fully support republicans taking over DC so they can run wild again.

FEAR!!! Is the great American past time. Fear of the big red Communism, fear of pagans stealing our children, fear that rock 'n' roll will send you to hell.....

KBM: Set aside your partisan bullshit aside for a moment. Don't you agree that ANYBODY viewing these tactics would agree they are inappropriate?

#18 | Posted by moder8

I don't know about KBM but........ If you can't see where this country is going, you are one blind lib.

There are some of us that don't believe big government is the answer to anything. Both parties have increased the size of government but.... little o has set a new standard.

They want more time to fleece the public, stealing and killing for fun and profit. Eight years is just a start.

Why would this surprise anybody? The vindictive clowns in the GOP have never had anything positive to offer so all we ever get from them is tired old propaganda aimed at the baser parts of our natures.

When they were out of office it translated to an unnecessary and hate-driven impeachment and when they were in it their "Contract with AMerica" became a "Contract On America" as evidenced by all those screw ups too numerous to mention and a pig-headed refusal to face reality as Bush stumbled from one disaster to another culminating in an economic meltdown.

They think all this can be turned around by scare tactics. Sadly they may be right.

"Secret RNC Strategy Doc Leaked"

SECRET????

Come now.

Fear of Barack Obama and his socialistic tendencies and policies sounds like a good motive to get involved politically on 2010 and 2012

All's fair in love, war, and politics. LBJ with his mushroom cloud ad, Obama with his ridiculous Mount Olympus speech that was so boner-inspiring to the libbies here at the DR.

The only question is, will it work? So far, the Repubs don't even need much of a coherent strategy to win elections. They just need to make sure everyone knows they're not Democrats.

How about this. "The Democrats took over Congress in January of 2007. Are you better off now, than you were then?

The Democrats took over the White House in January of 2009. Are you better off now, than you were then?"

rig, do you realy expect a truthfull answer from a lib?

what's a truthfull answer?

If the average Republican knew what the rich fat cats who run thier party really thought of them and know about their agenda no one earning less than $250K would ever vote Republican.

#11 | Posted by danni at 2010-03-04 12:41 PM | Reply
And Danni you know this how? Go back to your bong.

LOL!!!

This is supposed to be news, reported as some sinister conspiracy???

This is the same strategery Dems use every election year on Republicans regarding Social Security and Medicare! LOL

No news here....move along!

About "tchochkes.":

Tackiness = Obama's rush pass a costly health care Rube-Goldberg.

Tackiness = Rachel Madow's attempt to bring down Rep. Stupak through her own brand of slimy innuendo.

Tackiness = Harry Reid celebrating only 36,000 jobs lost this week.

Tackiness = Obama touting the phony urgency of getting his pet bill passed against a backdrop of folks costumed in white coats.

Tackiness = Nancy Pelosi expecting all the democrats in the house to follow her like lemmings rushing to fall off a cliff and into the sea by voting for the health care monstrosity.

Tackiness = Saying a year of misguided partisan efforts on a terrible bill in and of itself justifies passage regardless of its questionable content.

If the average Republican knew what the rich fat cats who run thier party really thought of them and know about their agenda no one earning less than $250K would ever vote Republican.

#11 | Posted by danni at 2010-03-04 12:41 PM | Reply
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LOL. Is that right? Trust me, the bonuses paid out at Goldman Sachs and AIG and Fannie and Freddie weren't because of Republican generosity, but that of the Dems. And what do I hear out of you? That it was all necessary to save the economy.

You don't mind saving rich guys who work in lower Manhattan, who do nothing but take wild bets with house money. But when it comes to some rich bastard trying to build houses, or mufflers, or those fat cats who cure disease or build factories or make things--time to shut those bastards down! They don't give any money to Democrats! Raise their taxes, and give the money to Goldman! We need to get our economy back on track again!

Too good. Methinks America is smarter than that. I hope so.

Hey Danni. Are you better now, than you were two years ago?

Is your company ringing up more sales? Is your income up? How about one year? Three? Is your net worth higher or lower than it was when Obama took office?

The political fortunes of the Congressional Dems are sliding by the day. Read yesterday that Diane Feinstein is in trouble. If true, it's not because things are getting better out there.

Hey Danni. Have you felt the effects of Bush's Great Recession?

Stupid questions from stupid posters.

#55 | Posted by rightisright

BRAVO!!!!

Well said!!!!

SECRET????

Come now.

#46 | Posted by TheTom

Exactly! This is business as usual for Rethugs... but now they are out of the closet.

Are you better now, than you were two years ago?

No, well you can blame the morons who thought it would be prudent to cut taxes while running a war.

I see. So if you had paid more in taxes from 2002 to the present, you would be better off?

Maybe so. You're a Taxman after all.

Matter of fact, that post was so stupid, let's have another poll question:

How many of you would be better off today, if you had only paid more taxes in the last eight years?

Let's ask a different question,

"How much better off would you and your children be if a couple of trillion dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy and an optional war had not been put on your tax credit card?

"How many of you would be better off today, if you had only paid more taxes in the last eight years?"

Every one of us. WE'd be living in a country that had trillions less debt. Very likely our wages would be higher and there would be more jobs.

Are you really defending the Bush tax cuts???

Do you honestly believe anyone really believes that passing tax cuts during wartime is a smart thing for any country to do??

Hmmmm. Probably worse off. Good thing Obama's not doing any of those things, huh?

Hope and change! If Bush put on a $400 billion health care boondoggle, let's make it a trillion! If he borrowed $200 billion for a stimulus, let's make ours $800 billion! If Bush borrowed money to fight in Iraq, let's borrow some more to fight in Afghanistan! If Bush passed the Patriot Act and spent $150 billion on DHS, let's reinstate, and push it to $380 billion! If the same Bush-appointed retard over at the NY Fed who oversaw Wall Street banks couldn't do his job there, let's make him Treasury chief!

Gobama! The question of whether I voted for Bush isn't at issue. The question is, why didn't you?

-Do you honestly believe anyone really believes that passing tax cuts during wartime is a smart thing for any country to do??

"But Unkle Karl! Whut if bein' a Wartime President ain't enough to git me re-electimated?"

"Don't worry, Georgie. We'll give your base, the Haves, a tax cut paid for by our grandchildren!"

"Golly gee whiz, thanks Uncle Karl!"

Do you honestly believe anyone really believes that passing tax cuts during wartime is a smart thing for any country to do??

#63 | Posted by danni

* * * *

Well, if it's stupid, then Obama should raise them. Fast. How much of a tax cut did you get, Danni? And would you oppose Obama having it go back to 2001 rates?

The reason for the tax cuts is simple: we are smarter with our money than Washington is. If you feel otherwise, you can send in more. The problem with deficits is not the tax cuts, IT'S THE SPENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!! STOP IT!!!!

Corky's post would make a little more sense, if America didn't know that DNC is now on the payroll of Wall Street.

GoGoGoldmanSachs! GoBama!

Do you honestly believe anyone really believes that passing tax cuts during wartime is a smart thing for any country to do?? -Danni

Well, it makes perfect sense if you invented the war in the first place and you were running Halliburton just before that.

It's called "serving" your country.

Trite is Right would maybe make more sense if he admitted that Obama is still trying to get the economy recovered from 8 years of neocon policies.

See, he likes to pretend that Obama likes to spend money the way his honey GW did.... not that he has to do it to finance the recovery.

You'd think he's be smarter than that... but you'd be wrong.

Sure he's trying. I've no doubt he wants the economy to recover. He just doesn't have the first clue as to how to do it, and he's surrounded by the same people who put us into this mess.

If Bernanke and Geithner didn't see it coming, were inept at their jobs when the dominoes started to fall, why were they promoted?

See, he likes to pretend that Obama likes to spend money the way his honey GW did.... not that he has to do it to finance the recovery.
* * * *

That's the same excuse that Bush used.

Every one of us. WE'd be living in a country that had trillions less debt. Very likely our wages would be higher and there would be more jobs.

#63 | Posted by danni

I guess you believe thoes ass holes would not have spent that too.

Trite is Right would maybe make more sense if he admitted that Obama is still trying to get the economy recovered from 8 years of neocon policies.

#69 | Posted by Corky

LOL...LOL...LOL...LOL...

Yeah, trying to get the economy recovered by quadrupling down on the very things Bush did?

So let me get this right, Bush put us in the crapper for all the unnecessary spending, and Obama is now going to get us out of the crapper via a four fold increase in spending?

OhhhhhhhhhhKayyyyyyyy!

OhhhhhhhhhhKayyyyyyyy!

Was standing behind door when Keynesian economics 101 test handed out in school.

The counterintuitive is often most mysterious to the anti-intellectuals.

And the sensible. If opposing Princeton-educated Bernanke and Harvard-educated Obama and Hopkins-educated Geithner is anti-intellectual, then I guess it's in fashion these days.

If McCain had been elected instead, and was quadrupling Bush's mistakes--believe me--Corky would have been all hopey-changey on us, telling us how Obama would have been different. Now all he can say is that everyone would be doing what Obama is.

26%! Whoop whoop!

You can caricature things all you want, Tighty.

If some 12 Step Program ever gets you to argue the facts instead, in this case that the prevalent Keynesian strategy would be used no matter who was Pres, please do let us know.

A democratic operative just happened to come across the document at a hotel that just happened to have an RNC meeting the day before....yea, right....as PT Barnum once said "there is a sucker born every minute". Go ahead dems keep on fishing and one day you just might find Jimmy Hoffa.

#77 - too funny. Even Steele knows and admits it, but not you.

That presentation was all about you.

That's the same excuse that Bush used.

#71 | Posted by rightisright

There is one LARGE difference. A significant portion of the money Bush borrowed was going to reconstruction of foreign countries that we had little business fucking up to begin with. Whereas, a much larger portion of stimulus money is actually being spent within the U.S., theoretically helping our own economy. But I'm not surprised that you'd ignore that detail.

While I agree with stimulus in theory, I believe much more should be going to infrastructure. Rather than continually extending unemployment, I think we should have work programs, as we did in recovering from the depression.

If Obama announced a one trillion dollar infrastructure stimulus, I would support it. But if you parsed the numbers, you would find that 80% of it would be going to state Medicaid programs, and the rest wouldn't be spent until 2019, and it would be a big bait-and-switch.

Obama can't even get Keynesianism right.

What?

No phony outrages of "stolen emails" by the MSM?

The only way we are going to recover from this recession / depression is the same way we recovered from the last one...

Can we say WWIII?

If anyone moaning about freedoms lost to Obama would spell out any freedoms personally lost, I'd gratefully listen. Right now I think they mean freedom to starve, freeze or die untreated in a gutter. herm

Ain't the First Amendment great?!

Secret RNC Strategy Doc Leaked

Just keep letting the Dems be the Dems.....:)

C'mon November!

Do you honestly believe anyone really believes that passing tax cuts during wartime is a smart thing for any country to do??
#63 | Posted by danni

* * * *
Well, if it's stupid, then Obama should raise them. Fast. How much of a tax cut did you get, Danni? And would you oppose Obama having it go back to 2001 rates?
The reason for the tax cuts is simple: we are smarter with our money than Washington is. If you feel otherwise, you can send in more. The problem with deficits is not the tax cuts, IT'S THE SPENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!! STOP IT!!!!
#66 | Posted by rightisright at 2010-03-05 12:33 PM

By your "logic" why didn't the tax cuts impact the 99% of the Nation? Because the 99% of us aren't monetarily as influential? What preferences do the rich get that we don't? Hmmm.. tax cuts?

So, to use money better we need to take it from the hands of those who would use it wrongly? And by "wrongly" I mean paying their mortgage, food and family expenses. The wealthy obviously do not require that kind of monetary misuse and so deserve more money?!

Thievery by any other name..

The problem with deficits is not the tax cuts, IT'S THE SPENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!! STOP IT!!!!

#66 | Posted by rightisright at 2010-03-05 12:33 PM

Celisary? That you disguised as RiR? LOL

capitalizing on "fear" of President Barack Obama and a promise to "save the country from trending toward socialism."

Well it does appear the Republicans are listening to All of the current Polls and forming a plan accordingly.... Sounds like a winning strategy....

I dont see anything evil in this... Look at all of the latest polls... They do indicate that "fear" of President Barack Obama and a desire to "save the country from trending toward socialism." is wide spread in America.

They're Obama's competition.... This is a non article..... or Non-Sense if you will.

#77 - too funny. Even Steele knows and admits it, but not you.

#78 - That presentation was all about you.

And you actually believe everything you read...wow hows that government education working for you.

Could you point me in the direction Michael Steele's statement where he says the memo is a fake? No? Oh, how...inconvenient for you...so sad.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Damn, Doc...I "heard" this and I thought Zatoitchy was prowling the boards again. he reminds me of Jack Nicholson in, "The Shining," with that maniacal laugh. I hope you haven't tripped your main circuit breaker too. Maybe just a rough night with the little coeds, eh?

The party of No Values are revealed as the cynical, hypocritical, fear-mongering asswipes they always were?

Tha's nice.

Be Well.

"The problem with deficits is not the tax cuts, IT'S THE SPENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"

What did you get for that, $1.00, $1.00???

No one could be so consistently irrational without an agenda. RisR will be there to respond on almost any post that hints of raising taxes. That is all the Republican Party actually gives a crap about.
The Bush tax cuts were their dream come true and the hell with what it did to the country. They even want our grandkids to pay for the wars they started. I say it's time to end the nonsense and return to sensible levels of tax and pay down this crippling Republican debt.

danni, how do you explain the record federal tax revenues after the tax cuts?

it's the spending....by both parties

This was a secret?

How much money did the Dems raise off GW doing the exact same thing?

I will say the Repubs need to be positive and outline ideas that the country can understand and agree with.

As for the Contract with America--much of what was promised was accomplished--even if the bills failed because of the senate or POTUS veto.