GOP Steps Up Anti-Obama Talk

[babylonsister]

Republicans step up the anti-Obama-speak
By Aaron Blake
Posted: 06/14/09 07:07 PM


Republicans in Washington are offering up some of the strongest language yet in their efforts to distinguish themselves from the 5-month-old Obama administration’s economic policies.

In recent weeks, GOP leaders and rank-and-file members have offered stinging rebukes of the Democratic control in Washington in terms that Democrats say have gone over the line.

Last week, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor said Obama’s handling of the faltering U.S. auto industry is “almost like looking at Putin's Russia.”

That came as Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) was drawing heat from Democrats for saying that he told Chinese leaders that “the budget numbers that the U.S. has put forward should not be believed” and that Congress would spend more than what is contained in the budget.

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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said after Cantor’s comments this week that the approach is alienating even members of the Republican Party.

A USA Today/Gallup poll last week showed 38 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents viewed the GOP unfavorably.

“When Republicans have no ideas and no leadership, they resort to personal attacks and bank on failure,” Van Hollen said. “It’s no wonder that recent polling shows that one-third of Republicans hold an unfavorable view of their own party.”

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http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/republican-step-up-the-anti-obama-speak-2009-06-14.html

[Triana]

1. IF Obama and Dems are smart - they'll ignore them and get it done

REPUBLICANS are no longer in power - DEMOCRATS ARE.

They need to start acting like it.

[marmar]

2. Eric Cantor isn't too bright.....

:dunce:

[saltpoint]

3. Ain't nobody listening to these fools try to demonize President Obama.

The man is popular. He inspires on the dream ledger and he achieves on the pragmatism ledger, rolling up impressive numbers in both categories. He's got the History vibe goin' and the band's in tune.

The more dismissive the Pukes get on Obama the closer they come to political impotency. If what they stand for was still viable, McCain and Palin would be in charge at this hour.

They aren't.

Recommended.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. But If Obama Is Seen To Have Failed, It Will Position Repubs Well

"See! We told you he'd fail!". This is what the Republicans are counting on, and why Obama should embrace winning policies rather than trying to placate the center-Right by triangulating. The Democrats will win or lose based on perceived success or failure, not by how many people on the center-Right aren't mad at them.