Nancy Pelosi: We'll Tie The GOP To Corporate Cash 'Like Doggy-Doo Stuck On Your Shoe'

[democracy1st]

In an interview with The Huffington Post on Tuesday, Pelosi said she was unsure how much help Democrats will get from outside political groups that the Supreme Court has ruled can spend without limit on federal elections, and House Democratic candidates have grown increasingly nervous as corporate money pours into district after district, while union money and help from environmental and women's rights groups has been much more restrained.

If Democrats can't match them in spending, said Pelosi, the party would tar Republicans by connecting them to corporate cash. "Of course, they all have euphemistic terms, "For Seniors" or "For Prosperity," or whatever it is, but really it's just cover," she said.

"Whenever you get hit with an overwhelming weight, you have to jujitsu it. So we want to turn it against them... I want to tattoo them right on to the Republican candidate," she said, smacking her hand for emphasis. "Big oil, big banks, big health insurance: We're going to tattoo you with that, so it's like doggy-doo stuck on your shoe. Wherever you go, people will know."

Pelosi also responded to a new memo circulated by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday, which instructs Republican candidates to portray the GOP as the party of "paychecks" and Democrats as the party of "food stamps." In the memo, Gingrich said that in June, "more food stamps were distributed by the government than ever before in American history. ... You can use this vivid contrast between the record of the Pelosi-Reid Democratic Congress and the last time the Republican Party took control of Congress to powerfully illustrate the difference for every American between the Democratic Party of food stamps and the Republican Party of paychecks."

"God bless them for being true to who they are," Pelosi responded. "They just can't resist the urge to stomp on poor people. They drove the country into a terrible ditch. The President and the Congress are trying to pull us out. The economists tell us that if we hadn't acted the way -- in the federal initiatives from the Congress and others, that we would have 8.5 million more people unemployed. That unemployment would be 14.5 percent, the deficit would be huge -- even huger than it is."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/06/nancy-pelosi-republicans-corporate-cash-doggy-doo_n_751477.html

[Brickbat]

1. That's nice.

I'll believe it when I see it.

[nykym]

2. So if Newt wants to tie the Dems

to food stamps, fine. But we need to point out the fallacy of "the Republican Party of paychecks."
Why the hell do you think there are so many on food stamps Newt? Because they are not getting a paycheck or it has shrunk to the point of food stamps being a godsend.
Your party created this mess and we Dems, as usual are trying to clean up the mess you made!

[Jim__]

3. They can only be successful in doing that if the media reports what they say.

The corporate media can selectively ignore any news they don't want to report.