GOP's New Slogan Already Being Used To Market Anti-Depressant ("The Change You Deserve")

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Leave it to the tone deaf GOP to find a way of attaching themselves to this election cycle's "change" mandate that simultaneously reinforces the fact that their failed policies have messed up the world to such an inhuman extent that many Americans now live their daily lives in a state of free-floating panic and paralyzing anxiety.

In today's New York Times' Caucus blog, Carl Hulse reports that House Republicans have got themselves a brand-new slogan:

It looks like Republicans will counter the Democratic push for change from the years of the Bush administration with their own pledge to deliver, drum roll please, "the change you deserve." The first element of the party agenda developed over the past few months by the leadership and select party members will focus on family issues.

"Through our "Change You Deserve" message and through our "American Families Agenda," House Republicans will continue our efforts to speak directly to an American public looking for leaders who will offer real solutions for the challenges they confront every day," said the memo prepared for lawmakers.

What the GOP doesn't seem to realize, because they are idiots, is that "the change you deserve" is the registered advertising slogan of Effexor XR, a drug that many of you might have started taking as a result of all the...you know -- terrorism. Effexor, also known as Venlafaxine, is approved for the treatment "of depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder in adults." Its common side effects are very much in keeping with the world the House Republicans have striven to build: nausea, apathy, constipation, fatigue, vertigo, sexual dysfunction, sweating, memory loss, and - and I swear I am not making this up - "electric shock-like sensations also called 'brain zaps.'"

Its less common side effects are equally awesome in their appropriateness.

And when the Food And Drug Administration reviewed the ad copy that included the tagline, "The change you deserve," it took issue with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which manufactures Effexor, saying that the company made "unsubstantiated superiority claims." Sounds like the GOP have picked an ironically accurate tagline for their efforts!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/12/gops-new-slogan-already-b_n_101376.html

[Mountainman]

1. Real solutions like making the tax cut for the wealthy permanent.

Real solutions like attacking Iran and Syria. Real Solutions like letting employers drop health insurance.

The definition of insanity is voting repug and thinking they will give a shit about your problems.

[NanceGreggs]

2. "Change You Deserve"

We all what the GOP thinks middle-class Americans 'deserve' - NOTHING.

Or perhaps it's just a reference to the 'change' in their pockets, which they're willing to throw at us once in a while.

[DCKit]

3. That's odd. Either I'm psychic or I've heard all this before. A lot.

Weren't they going to change things in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 too? No wonder prescriptions for anti-depressants and other mood-altering substances have gone through the roof - people keep voting Republican.

Hey America, you don't have to put up with the abuse. Leave, go to a safe place then vote in November and put it all behind you.

[Harry Monroe]

4. "The Change You Deserve"

"John McCain here for Depends. It's the change you deserve!!"

[seasat]

5. I deserve more than change...I need real money

I've already got pocket change. If they think that's all I deserve then screw them. How elitist of them to say that hard working middle class folks like myself can survive on coinage. I at least want a job with a salary where I can afford milk for my kids and gas for my car. ;)