Gop To Rebrand Democrats

[BG45]

[url="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22445.html"]Chairman Steele faces Party Revolt, childish behavior.[/url]

[quote]A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will approve a resolution rebranding Democrats
as the “Democrat Socialist Party.”

When I asked if such a resolution would force RNC Chairman Michael Steele to use that label when talking about Democrats in all his speeches and press releases, the RNC member replied: “Who cares?”

Which pretty much sums up the attitude some members of the RNC have toward their chairman these days.

Steele wrote a memo last month opposing the resolution. Steele said that while he believes Democrats “are indeed marching America toward European-style socialism,” he also said in a (rare) flash of insight that officially referring to them as the Democrat Socialist Party “will accomplish little than to give the media and our opponents the opportunity to mischaracterize Republicans.”[/quote]

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[Hassan]

[quote name='BG45' post='1866566' date='May 13 2009, 08:43 PM'][url="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22445.html"]Chairman Steele faces Party Revolt, childish behavior.[/url]



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I hope they do. The more unhinged and erratic the now far right republican party looks the less serious a force they become and the earier it will be to get some serious buisness done.

[eagle_eye222001]

Stupid tactic. I don't believe in winning on name-calling solely. GOP needs to a lot more than name call others - even if it's true - for them to come back.

This is a cheap gimmick idea that doesn't address the principles the GOP wants to truly stand for.

So you call your opponent a commie....what exact principles and values do you stand for?

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[kujo]

[quote name='eagle_eye222001' post='1866667' date='May 14 2009, 12:16 AM']So you call your opponent a commie....what exact principles and values do you stand for?[/quote]

Edited May 14, 2009 by kujo

[XIX]

[quote name='eagle_eye222001' post='1866667' date='May 14 2009, 12:16 AM']Stupid tactic. I don't believe in winning on name-calling solely. GOP needs to a lot more than name call others - even if it's true - for them to come back.

This is a cheap gimmick idea that doesn't address the principles the GOP wants to truly stand for.

So you call your opponent a commie....what exact principles and values do you stand for?

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seriously...

no wonder people love to say "I hate politics!!"

[KnightofChrist]

So we can't call a apple a apple or a orange a orange. The Democratic party has become a socialist party. Sure there are right ways to go about showing that, and wrong ways. But it is quite ridiculous to forbid the truth of this from being told to the American people.

Edited May 15, 2009 by KnightofChrist

[KnightofChrist]

Question for those apposed to even the idea, how much more socialist does the DNC have to become before we can call it a socialist party? Or will it forever be forbidden?

[KnightofChrist]

The Left leaning Newsweek gave credence to this idea soon after the election of President Obama.

[img]http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv352/Treseler7790/newsweek-socialist-cover.jpg[/img]


[url="http://www.newsweek.com/id/183663"]We Are All Socialists Now[/url]

In many ways our economy already resembles a European one. As boomers age and spending grows, we will become even more French.

The interview was nearly over. on the Fox News Channel last Wednesday evening, Sean Hannity was coming to the end of a segment with Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, the chair of the House Republican Conference and a vociferous foe of President Obama's nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill. How, Pence had asked rhetorically, was $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts going to put people back to work in Indiana? How would $20 million for "fish passage barriers" (a provision to pay for the removal of barriers in rivers and streams so that fish could migrate freely) help create jobs? Hannity could not have agreed more. "It is … the European Socialist Act of 2009," the host said, signing off. "We're counting on you to stop it. Thank you, congressman."

There it was, just before the commercial: the S word, a favorite among conservatives since John McCain began using it during the presidential campaign. (Remember Joe the Plumber? Sadly, so do we.) But it seems strangely beside the point. The U.S. government has already—under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries. That seems a stronger sign of socialism than $50 million for art. Whether we want to admit it or not—and many, especially Congressman Pence and Hannity, do not—the America of 2009 is moving toward a modern European state.

We remain a center-right nation in many ways—particularly culturally, and our instinct, once the crisis passes, will be to try to revert to a more free-market style of capitalism—but it was, again, under a conservative GOP administration that we enacted the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years: prescription drugs for the elderly. People on the right and the left want government to invest in alternative energies in order to break our addiction to foreign oil. And it is unlikely that even the reddest of states will decline federal money for infrastructural improvements.

If we fail to acknowledge the reality of the growing role of government in the economy, insisting instead on fighting 21st-century wars with 20th-century terms and tactics, then we are doomed to a fractious and unedifying debate. The sooner we understand where we truly stand, the sooner we can think more clearly about how to use government in today's world.

As the Obama administration presses the largest fiscal bill in American history, caps the salaries of executives at institutions receiving federal aid at $500,000 and introduces a new plan to rescue the banking industry, the unemployment rate is at its highest in 16 years. The Dow has slumped to 1998 levels, and last year mortgage foreclosures rose 81 percent.

All of this is unfolding in an economy that can no longer be understood, even in passing, as the Great Society vs. the Gipper. Whether we like it or not—or even whether many people have thought much about it or not—the numbers clearly suggest that we are headed in a more European direction. A decade ago U.S. government spending was 34.3 percent of GDP, compared with 48.2 percent in the euro zone—a roughly 14-point gap, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2010 U.S. spending is expected to be 39.9 percent of GDP, compared with 47.1 percent in the euro zone—a gap of less than 8 points. As entitlement spending rises over the next decade, we will become even more French.

Edited May 15, 2009 by KnightofChrist

[goldenchild17]

[quote name='KnightofChrist' post='1867821' date='May 15 2009, 12:28 AM']So we can't call a apple a apple or a orange a orange. The Democratic party has become a socialist party. Sure there are right ways to go about showing that, and wrong ways. But it is quite ridiculous to forbid the truth of this from being told to the American people.[/quote]

True, though if they had any fair intentions whatsoever they'd go ahead then and take the name Democrat as their own and leave their Republican title behind.

[Hassan]

[quote name='KnightofChrist' post='1867821' date='May 15 2009, 01:28 AM']So we can't call a apple a apple or a orange a orange. The Democratic party has become a socialist party. Sure there are right ways to go about showing that, and wrong ways. But it is quite ridiculous to forbid the truth of this from being told to the American people.[/quote]


What

Utter

Bull

......Hockey

[Mercy me]

[quote name='goldenchild17' post='1867862' date='May 15 2009, 04:18 AM']True, though if they had any fair intentions whatsoever they'd go ahead then and take the name Democrat as their own and leave their Republican title behind.[/quote]

How true

[KnightofChrist]

[quote name='goldenchild17' post='1867862' date='May 15 2009, 04:18 AM']True, though if they had any fair intentions whatsoever they'd go ahead then and take the name Democrat as their own and leave their Republican title behind.[/quote]

Indeed, they way they have been acting, indeed.

[RezaMikhaeil]

It's true that their socialist, but the republicans are socialists too...

The democrats are for tax cuts for the poor, the republicans the rich. The democrats are for giving welfare to the lower class, the republicans are for giving welfare to the rich.

The government gives 2/3rd of all welfare money to the rich corporations and less then 1/3rd to the poor. If a corporation goes into bankrupcy, as we're seeing now, the republicans and democrats fight for wall street and after getting the bailout money, those corporations give out billions in bonuses and the cycle continues.

Obama flip flops, true but so does McCain. Truely conservative people were angry that McCain got voted in, during the primaries because he only less of a socialist. George Bush even gave away money like it was going out of style.

Reza

Edited May 15, 2009 by RezaLemmyng

[Lounge Daddy]

So the large government Republicans, who helped pass the BOMB (the Bush, Obama, McCain bailout) are calling the Democrats socialists?

The same Republican Party, who's presidential candidate John McCain had run campaigns funded by the socialist George Sorros and Teresa Kerry (yes, the wife of John Kerry) for a decade. The Republican Party who championed anti-terror legislation that has been used again Americans accused of non-violent crimes.

The same Republican Party who grew the size of government tremendously outside of defense spending. The same Republican party with people like Huckabee who equate taxes with charity. The same Republican Party that equates abortion with terrorism, but then appoints pro-abort judges to supreme court benches (as Sarah Palin did).

That Republican Party is going to call Democrats socialists? What a joke.
It's just another game from the Republicrat Party -- a single party apparatus that panders to both sides of the isle to monopolize on votes and donations.

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='RezaLemmyng' post='1868046' date='May 15 2009, 03:00 PM']It's true that their socialist, but the republicans are socialists too...
...
Obama flip flops, true but so does McCain. Truely conservative people were angry that McCain got voted in, during the primaries because he only less of a socialist. George Bush even gave away money like it was going out of style.

Reza[/quote]

Amen, ba-rother. Our system of Partyarchy stinks.