Dems launch effort to equate GOP with far right Tea Party candidates
Democrats have said they are running against George W. Bush this fall, or at least his policies. But on Wednesday, they’ll announce that they’re really running against the Tea Party.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine will argue at a morning news conference that “the positions espoused by the Tea Party [are] the governing platform of the Republican party,” according to a DNC official who relayed details of the rollout ahead of time to The Daily Caller.
Kaine’s tack is a swipe at House Republicans for not offering more specifics of how they would govern if they retake the House. But it’s also an attempt to force the GOP to own proposals by Rep. Paul Ryan — the Wisconsin Republican who is one of the few Republican lawmakers to propose a sweeping plan to tackle entitlements — combined with an effort to taint the GOP with some of the more radical positions taken by a few insurgent Republican candidates, notably Rand Paul and Sharron Angle, the GOP nominees for Senate in Kentucky and Nevada.
“The Tea Party is now the most potent force in Republican politics,” the DNC official said. “While GOP leaders are still promising to hold town halls and online forums to develop a contract of their own, it’s already clear what that agenda will be based on what self-professed Tea Party adherents have said they stand for and the Republican adoption of the Tea Party.”
The DNC will circulate a 10-point “Republican Tea Party Contract on America.” It includes a flier with the 10 points, a 30-second TV ad, and a website with supporting details that includes quotes from Republicans espousing each of the 10 points.
While the 10 points include less mainstream ideas – such as abolishing the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and repealing the 17th Amendment in order to replace direct election of senators with a system where state legislatures do so – the first few points on the platform are drawn from a plan formulated by Ryan.
The first five points are repeal of President Obama’s health bill and of the financial regulation bill passed just last week, as well as plans to “privatize Social Security or phase it out altogether,” “end Medicare as it presently exists,” and extension of the Bush tax cuts from 2001 and 2003 “for the wealthy and big oil.”
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The Dems know they're toast.
This is a desperation move.
They have made no secret that they are planning to "go negative" in a big way to try to salvage something out of this sweep-out they are facing.
Truthfully, all it takes right now to get swept out is have a "D" after your name. They have proven themselves to be bad.
But they do have a point that some of the Tea Party candidates are just Neocon "re-treads". And we already know that.
We didn't get enough candidates winning in the primary elections this year, and so it is inevitable that alot of Neocons are going to ride back in with this. That's a shame.
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If the Dems are running against the Tea Parties, that means the Dems will be running in favor of bailouts to investment banks, TARP, deficits, debt, and against the will of their constituents and right of ordinary citizens to speak out.
I guess the Dems must really love losing elections. They could not pick a more effective plan to insure their own defeat.
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