GOPer strategy memo leaked

[Robbien]

Per the good folks over at Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/05/gop-strategy-memo-revealed-this-is-about-making-political-points-and-finger-pointing-over-blame/

At 11 p.m. last night, after Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shut down Senate debate on the Climate Security Act by forcing the 492-page bill to be read in full, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) revealed the existence of a GOP strategy memo on the climate debate. The anonymous memo, provided to Reid “by a lobbyist involved in Republican strategy meetings,” explains that their climate strategy is “much more on making political points” than “affecting policy.” See the memo at the Wonk Room.

This Climate bill is not the only bill for which GOPers have used this tacit. They have been using time wasting tactics each and every day this session. For GOPers it is party over country each and every time.

This notice also discloses that GOPers include their lobbyists in their strategy meetings. GOPers can't make a move without their puppetmasters.

[Winterblues]

1. “much more on making political points”

Well Duhhh...What else is new?

[sam sarrha]

6. link>>> must hear, ReThuglicans, insidious mind control program since Reagan Daze

http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/06/02.php

11:00George Lakoff: "The Political Mind" (Viking)
Linguist George Lakoff on what recent brain research demonstrates about the power of language to shape unconscious thought… and why he believes anti-democratic forces in this country will prevail unless progressives start using language that can change brains.

[yurbud]

15. this is something Democrats still need to learn how to do--make your points clearly even if you are

going to lose the vote.

Too often, their talking points are the final compromise version rather than the ideal they were shooting for (if they even tried to shoot for it).

Republicans do this with taxes all the time: however arcane the tax bill, they make it clear that their goal is lowering taxes.

[Ian David]

2. If the Democrats had listened to my suggestions when I call them...

... then each bill would have been only one page long, and this would not have worked.

[Robbien]

7. Five hundred pages for a climate bill which make very few changes

If instead of going for bully points GOPers were doing this to prove a point that bills are just too damn big, I may for the first time in a long which have a little respect for them.

But hey, when there is a choice between being productive and being scum, GOPers always grab for the scum.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. They need to hire that guy from the FedEx commercial.

[cui bono]

4. And yet Reid backs down whenever they threaten to filibuster.

:eyes:





edited to fix spelling.

[sam sarrha]

8. i say let em show everybody for months who they really are

[cui bono]

12. Exactly. Reid just lets it look like the Dems aren't accomplishing anything

without allowing the public to see that it's the Republicans obstructing it. He needs to call their bluff and let them filibuster until the news can't not report it as such and the people see what is really going on.

[Old and In the Way]

5. Their goal has been to obstruct the agenda of a majority of Americans.

They obviously don't care what the results of the 2006 election conveyed. Instead of defining an anti-majority legislation, they are doing whatever they can do thwart the will of the majority.

This is the message that needs to be made in our Congressional campaign.

[sam sarrha]

10. link>>> must hear, ReThuglicans, insidious mind control program since Reagan Daze

http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/06/02.php

11:00George Lakoff: "The Political Mind" (Viking)
Linguist George Lakoff on what recent brain research demonstrates about the power of language to shape unconscious thought… and why he believes anti-democratic forces in this country will prevail unless progressives start using language that can change brains.

[electropop]

9. How does that idiocy make any political points?

It's not about making points; it's about making money for their lobbyist friends and themselves.

[sam sarrha]

11. see post 10, it is about control.. the money is a result of that.. and more, a "Thousand Years of

ReThuglican control"

[Robbien]

13. They get to say that a Dem controlled Congress is a Do Nothing Congress

They believe voters will base their votes on that nonsense.

It is hard to believe that they are spending so much effort on time wasting instead of pushing bills that send money to their lobbyists. And lobbyists are even in these meetings which promote time wasting.

Everyone is nuts in GOPer world.

[yurbud]

14. kick

[Supersedeas]

16. Mitch McCon -- chief obstructionist in the Repig stall