Crooks & Liars: Congressional Republicans have new "three-pronged strategy" for a "comeback" in 2008

[Amerigo Vespucci]

House Republicans plot their comeback
By: Steve Benen @ 12:30 PM - PDT

We all know about the troubles facing congressional Republicans. But never mind all of that, the party says. Now, they’ve crafted a comeback plan.

Confronting a dire outlook for next year’s elections, House Republicans have begun to fight back with a new three-pronged strategy: painting the new Democratic majority as part of an unpopular Washington status quo, forcing Democrats to make unpopular votes on tough issues and locking arms around a new GOP issues agenda.

Brian Kennedy, communications director for House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), said the GOP plans to portray its opponents as “the same old tax-and-spend Democratic Party people remember from the 1970s.”

That’s it? Wedge issues and “tax and spend”? Republicans, in other words, plan to do exactly what they’ve been doing for the better part of my lifetime. This isn’t a “three-pronged strategy,” so much as it’s “the only play in the playbook.”

October 20th, 2007

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/20/house-republicans-plot-their-comeback/

[Fridays Child]

1. Jeezus! Has Boehner ever met a tanning booth he didn't like?

[Bluestar]

2. Most voters don't even remember the 1970's

To anyone born after 1975, this is ancient history. And for old folks like me, well, some of us have lost quite a bit of memory from those days for various reasons. I think the Repukes have come a cropper!