GOP Goes Nativist: Attack Ads You'll Be Seeing

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: Attack Ads You'll Be Seeing
By Ruth Marcus
Wednesday, August 8, 2007; Page A15

Here's an emerging line of attack you can expect to hear more of in the 2008 congressional campaigns -- especially if you live near a vulnerable Democratic incumbent: Democrats vote to give welfare benefits to illegal aliens. Or, even better: Democrats vote to take benefits away from deserving senior citizens to pay for welfare for illegal aliens.

Ugly? Absolutely. Devastating? So Republicans hope. True? No.

Bashing Democrats on immigration -- accusing them of doing everything but carrying illegals' luggage across the border -- is a GOP mainstay. But the accusations that Republicans started to peddle last week reached a new low in dishonest nativism. The first salvo involved the House version of the measure to extend the children's health insurance plan, SCHIP.

"What we do is take, at the cost of seniors who get . . . choices of their own health-care plans, we take it away," former speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) claimed during the House debate. "We wipe it out, and we give it to people who are illegal aliens." "That bill, if it becomes law, would take $197 billion out of the Medicare trust fund, from our seniors, to give to illegal aliens," charged Rep. Ron Lewis (R-Ky.)....

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Not that those inconvenient details matter much. "Target Dems Go the Extra Mile for Illegal Immigrants," crowed the House Republicans' campaign arm. It sent out individualized releases accusing vulnerable Democrats of voting "to give illegal immigrants government healthcare benefits." You can see the 30-second ads coming....

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.... this debate isn't really about making good use of federal funds. It's about using immigration as a weapon against at-risk Democrats -- and assuming voters won't bother to learn the truth.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/07/AR2007080701287.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

[rodeodance]

1. te taking away from seniors and giving to eldering was heard in WI last week

Or, even better: Democrats vote to take benefits away from deserving senior citizens to pay for welfare for illegal aliens.

[mrcheerful]

2. Then its up to us to get this message out, " who are the one hiring illegals?

who are the ones who are trying to get a guest pass to illegals and allow more illegals to come in to under cut american citizens pay? Who are the ones benefitting from illegals labor? " The repthuglicans thats who. They have had 15 years to do something about the illegal problem, yet what actions have they taken to secure our borders? None, they threw money at the problem for the great 700 mile wall, yet even after 2 years not one fence post has been put in the ground. Where are the tax dollars that the thugs spent on the great wall? Somewhere in Haliburton and Dead eye Dicks back pocket.

[jojo54]

3. Look who's talking about taking money away from seniors!!!! eom