Dems elevate Boehner as face of Bad Old GOP

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By Greg Sargent
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/08/dems.html?wprss=plum-line

There's a reason the White House and Dems are throwing everything they have at John Boehner's speech attacking Obama's economic policies: Dems and White House advisers know they must not allow Boehner and the GOP to achieve a clean relaunch of their party and their ideas heading into the midterms.

The big underlying fight right now is over whether Republicans will succeed in rebranding themselves, achieving separation from Bush and the party that ran Congress before the Dem takeover, or whether Dems will successfully convince the electorate that a vote for the GOP is a vote for the party that brought our economy to the edge of doom.

So the White House is circulating a new set of talking points instructing Dems on the Hill and outside allies to reiterate these ideas:
White House talking points on Boehner's speech
(http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/white-house-talking-points-on-boehner-speech.html)

In a speech in Cleveland today, House Minority Leader John Boehner laid out Congressional Republicans' economic dream. Their prescription for the future = the same policies that led to the worst recession since the Great Depression. They want more tax breaks for the rich, less oversight of Wall Street, and a tougher burden for middle-class families...

Representative Boehner is ignoring his party's own record, and he's hoping that American families will, too. In the eight years before the Obama Administration took office, the Republican Leadership took the record surplus and turned it into a record $1.3 trillion deficit. Their irresponsible policies helped to create the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, resulting in 22 months straight of job losses across America.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Problem is so is The Tea Party.

They're claiming they're the "true" conservatives.

[AndyA]

2. It's amazing to me that middle class Republicans support these bozos.

Are there *ANY* middle class Republicans still?

I know most are wealthy or back woods idiots, but there is still a middle class in the GOP, is there not? How can these people support the Republican policies?

They are out of work, and they are going to vote for people who blocked their unemployment benefits?

Go figure. :shrug:

[Jim__]

3. Boehner's a good target. His phony tan and smug smile are a great symbol to ...

represent the republican party.