Nancy Pelosi: We'll Tie The GOP To Corporate Cash 'Like Doggy-Doo Stuck On Your Shoe'

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

Nancy Pelosi: We'll Tie The GOP To Corporate Cash 'Like Doggy-Doo Stuck On Your Shoe'


First Posted: 10- 6-10 10:15 AM | Updated: 10- 6-10 12:00 PM



With less than a month until the election, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is urging her fellow Democrats to highlight the ties between Republicans and corporate interests and aggressively respond to attacks by Republicans that attempt to portray the Democratic Party as out of touch with the economic concerns of voters.

In an interview with The Huffington Post on Tuesday, Pelosi said she was unsure how much help Democrats will get from outside political groups that the Supreme Court has ruled can spend without limit on federal elections, and House Democratic candidates have grown increasingly nervous as corporate money pours into district after district, while union money and help from environmental and women's rights groups has been much more restrained.

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If Democrats can't match them in spending, said Pelosi, the party would tar Republicans by connecting them to corporate cash. "Of course, they all have euphemistic terms, "For Seniors" or "For Prosperity," or whatever it is, but really it's just cover," she said.

"Whenever you get hit with an overwhelming weight, you have to jujitsu it. So we want to turn it against them... I want to tattoo them right on to the Republican candidate," she said, smacking her hand for emphasis. "Big oil, big banks, big health insurance: We're going to tattoo you with that, so it's like doggy-doo stuck on your shoe. Wherever you go, people will know."


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[xultar]

1. I loves me some Nancy Pelosi

[JDPriestly]

23. She should have impeached Bush. Had she started the process,

we would not be in the mess we are in today.

But I am happy that she is finally seeing the light.

[davidwparker]

34. +1

[defendandprotect]

2. Good, Nancy.... 'cause we also need Democrats to begin to be ASHAMED of taking corporate $$$....!!

Good move -- and if the public finally begins to understand it -- we will make

Democrats ASHAMED of taking corporate bribery!!

[LaPera]

22. Republicans make sure that the corporations always give a token amount to Dems

Besides of course the blue-dogs like Lincoln, Nelson, etc.. who reap in big corporate bucks...

Republicans probably receive 50 times what non blue dogs Dems receive from a corporation - Purposely, a corporations will sometimes donate a token amount to Dems - makes it easy for the republicans to say.... "Well the Democrats took money from the same corporation too".

In so much as a corporation might give a million bucks to a republican and the same corporation will then give say 43 thousand and change to a Dem.

The truth is they both took money, (though the vastly different amounts never surfaces). Would it matter to the voters if they were made aware of the actual amount discrepancies, who knows).

Still, this is a tried and designed tactic used by corporations, and I'm sure the republicans encourage corporations to do this....No matter, the Dems should not take a dime from polluting gouging imperialist oil corporations and the like, ever!

Would people be upset if the Dems accepted contributions from say, corporations like Apple or Google?

But then again, all it takes is ONE Blue-dog Dem like Blanche Lincoln (Democrat in name only) accepting money from banking, insurance corporations, oil or war profiteers, etc.. and the republicans have their case.

[defendandprotect]

30. One complication is that unions were so depleted by right wing that ....

for every one dollar/$ that corporations give, unions can only give 1 cent --

BUT ... the question isn't what corporations are giving -- the question has to be

WHY are our elected officials taking money from corporations? It's bribery!

And we continue to ignore that -- ! Why?



Whatever, for instance, the health care industry gave to Obama and Baucus ... it was

SUFFICIENT to destroy the movement to a single payer/MEDICARE FOR ALL system!

So -- you're saying corporatiosn got that on the cheap?


I think Americans should be concerned about elected officials taking $$ from anyone --

Apple, Google or a church, whatever!!

It's bribery -- plain and simple!

:)

[OZark Dem]

3. It is a Robust plan !

[DesertFlower]

4. well said nancy. nt

[unkachuck]

5. "If Democrats can't match them in spending,"

....doesn't matter, 'tar' them anyway....

"Big oil, big banks, big health insurance: We're going to tattoo you with that,..."

....better hurry up Nancy, times a-wasting....

[AlinPA]

11. We can never match them in spending now, post-SC ruling.

[defendandprotect]

19. You know .... since what you're saying is absolutely true .... post this SC decision ....

DEMOCRATS do have this fork in the road ....

#1 -- they can go the way Pelosi is suggesting and make any politician taking

corporate bribery something to be ASHAMED of ....

or

#2 -- Democrats will have to decide to debase themselves further by begging harder

for corporate bribes --



Hmmm .... which will it be?

[Canuckistanian]

6. Yeah, it does kinda stick. And it IS disgusting.

So, good plan. I hope she can do it.

[midnight]

7. K&R for nancy....

[McCamy Taylor]

8. Bout time! Bank and Oil money is an albatross the GOP should wear at all times.

[MisterP]

9. yeah, down with corporatist parties! oh, wait... nt

[applegrove]

10. I'm glad she is being aggressive. That is the only thing the GOP understand.

Hopefully the message will punch through to the GOP base.

[Greybnk48]

12. I just adore her!

Stick it to them Madame Speaker!

[bertman]

13. Better late than never, Nancy. But I'm with you on this one. Rec.

Of course, I do find it to be quite hilarious that the Democrats are going to portray the Republicans as the pro-corporate party.

So sad that our choice is between the rabidly pro-corporate party and the not quite as rabidly pro-corporate party.

[underpants]

14. Oh yeah that's right.... we have facts on our side

good that they finally GOT that, actually the last month is the perfect time to bring this out. The Dems may lose seats but they are playing this very well.

[Owl]

15. Well then, GET ON WITH IT!

Cripes, the election is damned near here!

[Terry_M]

16. Seriously...

This feels like more of the usual.. Talk but where's the action? I hope they're not waiting till November 1st to start attacking from that angle or something.....

[AC_Mem]

17. Love Nancy!

She has led the Democrats through a very tough couple years, I give her ALOT of credit!

[veganlush]

18. indeed. but do it, don't just talk about it!

[Oldtimeralso]

20. K & R

We ain't done it yet?

[Bluebear]

21. When??

[wundermaus]

24. The Democrat vs Republican mime is

analogous to the entertainment value of the WWF.

[Overseas]

25. K&R!! /nt

[The Uncola]

26. And the Cola Wars continue.

:puke:

[Zorra]

27. Good plan, time to act. nt

[joe black]

28. Same old crap from Nancy.

It gets old. After "impeachment is off the table" I lost total confidence.

[Uncle Joe]

29. I believe this is a brilliant and well justified strategy.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[Buns_of_Fire]

31. L.L. Cool Nancy the rapper

You gonna get a tattoo / And doggy-doo on your shoe
Wherever you go / People gonna know
When they start to think / They're gonna notice that you stink
'Cause you're a pile of walking poo / You ain't gotta clue
Talking lots of trash / Sitting on your cash...

Add a beat and it might work. Add some of those scritchy sounds from the old rap songs, too.

"It's got a good beat and I can dance to it, Mr. Clark."

[veganlush]

32. this kind of talk, with little action..

...is no match for the supreme-court-cash-infused-right-wing.

[indimuse]

33. hehe..Bravo!

Tell'm Nancy!

KNR!

[NeonDog]

35. Dems will start right after the election along with middle class tax cuts

Just In Time Politics!! Hah!!

[progressoid]

36. Well, let's get to it.

We only have a few weeks left.

[No Elephants]

37. Democrats have been trying to sell the message that Republicans--and only Republicans--

are the party of the rich for a long time. It worked better before the victories of Nixon and Reagan scared Democrats.

[tabasco]

38. Who's going to report that for you, Nancy?

The corporate whore media? :shrug: