New GOP Talking Points: Obama Administration Is “Most Politically Obsessed White House In History”
A Republican sends over a new set of GOP talking points for House conservatives — privately circulated this week to scores of GOP press secretaries on the Hill — that blasts the Obama administration as “radical” and “reckless” and the “most politically obsessed White House in history.”
The talking points also make the claim that “the only approach that has not been tried is the conservative approach.”
The talking points represent the first major move this cycle by House conservatives to create united conservative messaging front, according to Roll Call (sub. only). They were sent out by the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 100 conservative House Repubs headed by GOP Rep Tom Price — a sign that House conservatives are hoping to capitalize on the crisis to mount a comeback for what they’re labeling the “conservative approach” to the economy.
Among the GOP talking points’ highlights on Obama and Dems:
* “The budget is a radical proposal that will change the character of our nation, trampling on freedom and liberty.”
* “The only approach that has not been tried is the conservative approach – limited bureaucracy, lower taxes, and responsible regulatory structures.”
* “The administration is disingenuous, unfocused, and reckless.”
These claims are perhaps thrown into question when you think back to the approach employed by the Obama administration’s predecessors, but at least now you’ll know where this is coming from if you hear it.
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and responsible regulatory structures.”
Right here I started laughing so hard I couldn’t finish reading the post. I had to pick myself up off the floor before I could type this.
Uhmmm were they talking about President Obama and the Dems or themselves. I don’t think they realize how much thats going to blow up in their face everywhere but FoxNews. Void of ideas? When Boehner said he isn’t even going to try to legislate? When McConnell said they won’t even try to come up with an alternative budget? The Republicans should know all about trampling on freedom and liberty. Can you say FISA or the Patriot Act? How about those memos that recently came out where Bush wanted to undermine freedom of speech from the press? I can tell you this much if the DNC is smart they are sending out a bunch of easy counter punches right now to anybody who is going on Tee Vee later today.
By the way, and I have pointed this out several times before, there is only one party that continually tries to frame something by ideology. When was the last time you heard a Democrat derisively using the word “conservative”? Yet you hear Republican after Republican talking about the “liberal agenda” like the world liberal is analagous to “boogie man”. The GOP is stuck in the 90s and they still just don’t get it.
I breatlessly await Michael Caldarone’s BREAKING NEWS story about this coordinated messaging from the Republicans.
How about those memos that recently came out where Bush wanted to undermine freedom of speech from the press?
Yeah, funny how that story just popped up and then popped right back down again with very little comment from the MSM.
So what was tried the last eight years? Where was this conservative outrage then? Obama still hasn’t been in the White House two months yet and ridiculous hyperbole isn’t going to fly.
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Eight years of failed Bush vs less than two months of the Obama Administration…
Here is the funny and ironic part, if the Republicans would just stop attacking President Obama for awhile they actually might do a better job of turning people away from him. But by constantly attacking him and his agenda and using words like “radicaL” all they serve to do is turn the people in the middle away from them. I don’t care who you are, if you see someone getting beat up and the person never tries to punch back you are generally going to resent the person who keeps punching and have empathy and even respect for the person who just keeps taking it and keeps standing back up. The problem is they only know one way to win and thats attack attack attack. Had the Republicans just laid low for instance on the AIG issue then it would have been the President and the Democrats who would have had to explain all on their own how these bonuses came to be. But instead the Republicans want to point the finger at the Dems and not even AIG and it just comes off as looking like partisan hackery.
The “leaders” who put out such talking points are in need of some couch time to work out their delusional projection! -Kevo
So what was tried the last eight years?
The Republicans need to admit that their great Conservative Movement was an Epic Fail. They got their way – they had it all. The wrecked everything.
They won’t admit it – at least the majority of them won’t. It’s no wonder people, even Republicans, are disgusted.
I was pretty upset about Bush’s policies – the tax cuts were fine, but not coupled with the excessive spending. Bush simply was not a fiscal conservative… Iraq was a mess.
However- its time to move forward now. The current mess can be laid at the feet of many people, Fannie & Freddie, the House, endless government intervention. I am more interested in fixing & moving forward. Yet, I keep getting the feeling that the federal government is broken.
Fannie and Freddie did not cause the problem, they were simply dissproportionately affected by that. If you don’t understand that then you don’t understand the fundamental problems with our economy. The problem is not just that there were for closures or subprime loans. The problem is that people bet big sums of money on all those home loans without having the money to back up the bets. If this would have happened in Vegas those folks would be out in some unmarked graves in the desert, but because it happened on Wall Street they are instead handed out bonuses. It is what it is.
Yet, I keep getting the feeling that the federal government is broken.
Obviously, the conservatives worked their magic on you, since that’s what you think.
The Republicans broke it on purpose – Obama and the Democrats are trying their best to put it back together.
We came as close as we’ve ever come to unraveling totally under Bush. He really wanted to jerk the entire Bill of Rights – starting with free speech. He put incompetent cronies and donors into positions and then just let ‘em go – ignored totally what they were doing. Ignored totally where money was going. $9 billion in Iraq went missing the first year.
More importantly, however, it turns out that every single time someone in our custody was tortured, the White House had explicitly given the go-ahead. Every single time. That means that the old “out of control enlisted personnel” lie is exposed for the lie it always was. That also means that the Bush Administration is guilty of war crimes and we cannot go forward until we deal with the crimes that have been committed. All of them. There is no going forward if you willfully blind yourself to history. All you do is repeat it.
Jesus wept.
The problem is not just that there were for closures or subprime loans. The problem is that people bet big sums of money on all those home loans without having the money to back up the bets.
Thanks so much for getting it. People I talk to really have missed this point -it wasn’t the fact that there were mortgages, per se. It was that they were bundled and speculated on – they were sold as securities (I’m repeating myself. Sorry)
There’s nothing wrong with buying stocks on margin, either, unless everyone starts speculating on them – then if the margin collapses, the whole thing goes down. That’s the problem right there – if the safeguards FDR had passed had not been taken away, this wouldn’t have happened. Those safeguards made it impossible to speculate to that degree – the degree where everything fails if one thing does down.
You can sustain risk in the market, as long as there are safeguards that keep the risk contained. Glass-Steagall was one of those safeguards that got repealed. There were others – the laws that got enacted the last time this happened. Which was the last time the Republicans had the White House and the majority.
I see one problem with this idea. Responsible regulatory structures? Doesn’t that contradict the “government is the problem” thing?
I’m just loving these threads, all. Please keep it up.
I truly believe these people are insane. Nice work Greg.
that blasts the Obama administration as “radical” and “reckless” and the “most politically obsessed White House in history.”
Talk about psychological projection!
Don’t make me choke on my pretzle
Bush simply was not a fiscal conservative
Get a grip. For more than a generation now, the conservative fiscal strategy has been to cut taxes because it’s popular, claim that it will somehow force spending to be cut, but never do it themselves (other than ideologically-motivated cuts that amount to a tiny fraction of their tax cuts.) They try to force Democrats, who actually care about governing instead of posturing, to make the cuts for them or be accused of raising taxes to close the Republican deficits.
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*That* is what “fiscally conservative” means. You can make any claims you want about what “conservative principles” are, but principles are what you follow when it’s hard, not just when it’s easy, and conservatives have never followed through on the hard part.
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I’ll agree that Bush was not fiscally responsible, but he absolutely was “fiscally conservative” as conservatives have defined the term by their actions for the past thirty years.
I’m amused that their second try after the complete flop of “Obama is doing too much” (which they push because it’s a lot easier to focus the message machine to oppose one thing at a time) is to argue that the administration is “unfocused.” I’m betting this one flops big-time, too.
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They seem unable to grasp that it’s their credibility that’s in the toilet, and you need a certain level of credibility before anyone but the Beltway Media will pay attention to your criticisms.
Absolutely Redshit, Bush was indeed fiscally conservative. I couldn’t agree with your comments more.
Remember: these are the people who said Osama bin Laden is worse than Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and all the other despots of history combined and that the “war on terror” faces a stronger enemy than WWII and the Cold War. Hyperbole is their stock in trade.
TENA,
Stegall was signed by Clinton. Get your facts straight.
TENA,
Stegall was signed by Clinton. Get your facts straight.
And it was written by? Hmmmm. I think his name rhymes with Cramm.
“The most politically obsessed white house in history”??? Can you say Karl Rove!! What a freakin joke. Yeah, let’s do it the rethuglican ways. All free markets all the time.. Do the Rethugs realize they work for the same government they bash? They want limited government as long as they can keep their jobs and their government healthcare…
The incredible shrinking party is like the excedeingly bad driver, who upon getting on to xpressway sole goal is to cut across traffic to the high speed lane. Then procedes to drive 25 mph slower than everybody else.
The Gop wants to get in power. Period. It is the ends of their means. They caim government can’t do anything,get elected, and prove their theory. They would love to take their failure of their majority and lay it at the feet of the nebulus “big govt” meme.
The idea was floated in the mid 70’s of the “Two-Santa Claus Theory”, whereby republicans run on tax cuts while never cutting a single program or even attempt to balance budget,create huge deficits,increase the national debt from 1 trillion to 10.5 over 30 years.
The benefit for this radical,exponentially inefficient, costly and national security risk for them? This will bankrupt the governemnt thereby curtailing government spending! They are sooo together
Funny how remarkably disciplined they are with their talking points.
From the Gop, to Fox, to Rush, to the right blogosphere. Google “Acorn” and you’ll see what I mean. I guess talking points are crucial when you run “Narrative” based campaigns vs. National Issues.
I love that redshit guy!!
Thanks, Chris, but please don’t leave out the ‘f’. I don’t want people to think I have some kind of digestive disorder!
aaaahhhh…my bad dude.
As Joseph Lyles of cgradio.net keeps pointing out, the right-wing folks say Bush wasn’t a conservative. Yet they supported him. And they would have supported McCain, who isn’t a conservative either. So, the conservative ideas of small government will never be implemented (of God forbid put to the test).
And yet, righties keep saying that they want the chance to put a real conservative in office.
How many chances do you get?
Here is where you need to go for de-programming:
http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/
Oh pleeeeez. Because they have every aspect of our American life to repair means there obsessed? Get real It takes full time attention to repair the vast damage done for the last 8 years. Shut the f–k up and help the problem not hurt the solutions and the attempts to help America. You fool.
Republican talking points are too psychologically smart to be thought of by Republicans. It’s as if they tap into a secret database of great human wisdom (which comes from the left aka we are all in this together aka the human side) and cherry pick a seemingly plausible tack. Why the left does not expose them is bc the left is blackmailed.
Geez it’s like a liberal feeding frenzy in here. Quite the marketplace of ideas. You all must have linked in from therawstory.com. Top two headlines today: John Stewart telling Dick Cheney to shut it, and the Daily Shown blog mocks Jim Cramer. These are truly the issues of our time. Give me a break you people are a joke.
@loneconservative – The ad hominem angle won’t fly here – read the substance of the commentary, do some research of your own outside of blindly conservative sources and then come back with a reasonable rebuttal and we’ll listen.
Lone Conservative: There is a reason WHY you’re alone, especially here. It’s because the people here are too smart to keep believing the republican’s ****, if they ever did. You, it appears, are too eaten up with being lied to and think that the lies are reality. I’m 50 years old, and have NEVER seen anyone as politically obsessed as the republicans are and have been for the last 28 years. I really feel sorry for people like you. You get lied to constantly and stand in line for more of it. And when everything falls apart at your feet, you blame those who didn’t have nearly as much to do with it as you yourself did. Then they lie to you more and you parrot that like it means something. You are a sad, sorry example of what is wrong with this country. You wouldn’t know the reality of the situation if it came up and hit you in the face. I suspect that it even has a few times, and you just ignored it to fall back into your comfortable cocoon of lies. Unlike you, some of us didn’t fall for the republican **** even back when Reagan was lying through HIS teeth as you. You, unfortunately, fell for it hook, line and sinker, if indeed you are even old enough to know this country before the scourge of Reagan. When are you going to wake up and realize it’s all been a pack of lies? I suspect never, as you seem proud to be as brain dead and gullible as you can be. Enjoy, but don’t think for one minute that it’s anything but BS.
hahahahaha. Very funny when a “conservative” like GW Bush is handed a budget surplus and ends his criminal career with the surplus gone and now $ 2 TRILLION DOLLARS in debt (when you count the Iraqi oil war which was not on the books). If that’s a “conservative” I must have been totally wrong all those years. A conservative actually is a person who gives tax cuts to the very richest people while the avg. American family lost any and all forms of getting ahead. NEVER has there been a party as political as the republiKKKon party who hates working Americans and lies about EVERYTHING as they just say NO and go back to the policies of Herbert Hoover.
hahahahahaha….. oh my belly! While it’s also really sad to watch it’s damn funny how pathetic the GOP has become. It’s like they’re a characteur of their former pathetic selfs.
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Republicans are scum. Absolute scum.
Thank you for this site! I don’t think there has ever been a more True article written about the current administration. It’s disgusting the amount of air time they command. All primed up and painted while American follows Obama down the toilet. I’ve never been more disappointed in my country.