GOP Says We'll Play Ball, But Kill The Ads

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2009/01/gop-says-well-play-ball-but-ki.html

January 30, 2009

As some White House-allied left-leaning groups begin running ads attacking GOP lawmakers who oppose President Obama’s stimulus package, the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives says an air war could threaten a spirit of bipartisanship.

“(Wednesday’s) vote was only the beginning of the process and House Republicans are committed to working with President Obama to find real economic solutions. We should not allow politics to destroy this process. Threats from unnamed White House sources undermine our national spirit of bipartisanship,” House GOP Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia who issued the statement of protest a day after the stimulus package passed in the House without a single GOP vote, including his own.

“In addition, President Obama should immediately disavow plans by some political groups who announced they will run attack ads against Republicans. Let us be clear: attack ads will not create jobs or help struggling families but will only serve to undermine our nation’s desire for bipartisanship. Instead of thinking about winning at any cost, we should all be thinking about creating the jobs Americans need,” Canter added.

Define bipartisanship?

The groups and unions Americans United for Change, MoveOn.org Political Action, AFSCME and SEIU announced plans to target Republicans, like GOP Sens. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, Lisa Muchowski of Alaska, Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine.

- Ken Bazinet

[Skittles]

1. FUCK OFF, REPUKES

YOU NO LONGER OWN THE SHOW

[annabanana]

2. Oh that's fuckin' RICH

After laying a great big goose egg in the house, they think a couple of TV ads "could threaten a spirit of bipartisanship.". .??

jesus
:eyes:

[DebJ]

3. No, they know the ads will tank the Republican Party!

[Lasher]

4. They wanted their tax cuts included, now they want a gag order.

They'll vote against it anyway, repeating trite old GOP slogans all along the way.

[Andy823]

5. I think

This was all part of the plan, and it's working great. Obama was holding out the olive branch, and even the republicans kept saying nice things about him, then they all took Rush's advice and voted NO in the house, bad idea. Now that they see just how bad things are with republican governors "wanting" the bill to pass, and with the adds coming out about how they followed Rush instead of voting to help the country, they are scared to death they blew it, and they did!

The country is tired of the same old crap in D.C., and the republicans and George W. Bush are responsible for the mess we are in and want to play political games instead of working on a solution to the problems. Yep, I think Obama has them right where he wants them! :evilgrin:

[defendandprotect]

6. And besides...who in the hell watches TV ads? Worst of all, political ones????

Does anyone here not mute the TV or lower the sounds when a commercial comes on ---

Would you even know if a political ad was on?

Who watches these things?

[Arctic Dave]

7. I watched the 10:00pm news last night and they ran the ad

against Murkowski three times. It was a beautiful thing.

[Historic NY]

8. Don't stop for one minute, the GOP is irrelevant. Let the ads continue.

[WVRICK13]

9. Amazing

They applaud the total zero Republican vote in the House and then scream about bipartisanship. Those ASSHOLES put us in this spot and they want to keep us there. After all, if you have money you can buy an amazing amount of property for pennies on the dollar. I think they planned and wanted our economic collapse. It only hurts the middle class and poor and has been profiting the wealthy, except for the excessively greedy who got scammed in the ponzi game. Oh wait, our taxes are going to pay some of their loss. How about those of us who lost our retirement in the 401K, where is our bailout?

Keep up the ads and the honesty. If anything we are being too gentle in out attacks.