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Comment RSS NY 23rd CD Saga, NOM v. HRC?
By now, you probably know about the special election in New York's 23rd congressional district. Republican John M. McHugh has held this seat since 2003. He resigned on September 21, 2009 to become United States Secretary of the Army. This seat represents about 650,000 hard working, mostly blue collar, solidly Republican folks on New York's Canadian border. The median income is about $35,000. The local Republican Party nominated Dede Scozzafava who is a socially liberal fiscal conservative. That is a creature well known in New York politics.
Well, that didn't sit well with the Christian Conservatives so they came up with an anti-choice, anti-gay marriage candidate, Doug Hoffman, to run as a Conservative. This has brought a wide assortment of wingnuts to this rural area. These include Sarah Palin, The Susan B. Anthony People, Catholics for America, Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum, Phyllis' embalmer, Fred Thompson, Dick Armey, Marilyn Musgrave and the Club for Growth. Actually, the Club for Growth is among the largest donors to Hoffman's campaign. Given that they are a group of very rich people trying to prevent very rich people from paying their fair share of taxes, they have the challenge of getting these good folk to vote against their own economic interests.
National Organization for Marriage was among the earliest detractors of Scozzafava and one of the earliest supporters of Hoffman. In an email last week they claimed to have spent $150,000 on this campaign. Either Brian Brown is lying – again – or they haven't reported the expenditure. On the other hand, the Human Rights Campaign PAC has donated $4,000 to Scozzafava. Nobody is paying attention to Bill Owens, the Democratic candidate who has out-raised both of his opponents and who actually has a shot at being the first Democrat to be elected to this seat in about 150 years.
THIRTY POINT REPUBLICAN AND JOE LIEBERMAN PLATFORM
1 - Destroy hope in America by being anti-everything Obama which equals anti-middle class.
2 - Give tax breaks to the rich
3 - Talk conservative when spending money on Main Street, but quite liberal when spending money for corporate CEOs and their lobbyists buddies.
4 - Pass laws as favors for campaign donations even if it is not good for middle class America
5 - Use scare tactics instead of facts to influence Americans (i.e. Bush and Iraq war - death panels, etc).
6 - Complain when Obama/Dems does something for middle class, but have no plans or solutions of their own unless it is to help corporate America and their Lobbyists cronies.
7 - Party of YES for big corporations and lobbyists.
8 - Party of NO for hard working middle class Americans
9 - Distorts the truth and use gimmicks (McCain’s campaign, birthers, death panels, etc)
10 - Relies on Fox and bogus Rasmussen Polls for their facts while ignoring all other opposing polls
11 - Republicans love the color of green for money more than red, white and blue. They prove it time after time by passing laws that favor the rich who fuels their campaigns.
12 - Pretends or distorts the truth as if they are doing good for middle class while passing laws that help the rich and corporate America
13 - Obstructionists for everything that is best for Main St v.s. Corporate America.
14 - Uses polls and studies from self-serving corporations (i.e insurance company poll and study) as facts
15 - While Insurance CEOs give themselves million dollar salaries and spends millions daily to influence politicians (lobbyists) with premiums dollars from denying coverage, Hatch has the gull to discuss their profit percentage (see #3 above).
16. Don’t have the guts to stand up to the crazies like Beck and Limbaugh
17. At the 11th hour talks about preserving Medicare while at the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th hour they opposed all regulation to help seniors with health care
18. Everything they say to oppose health care is true about insurance companies - death panels, rationing, etc are all done by insurance companies now
19. Speaks in generalities and sound bites and leaves out the truth. For example taxes. They talk as if Obama will raise taxes on all Americans trying to influence middle class, while leaving out that Obama has said repeatedly he will only raise it on those who make $250,000 or more (roll back to Clinton years) - see #2 and #3 above.
20 - Uses Fox news and conservative talk radio to spread their propaganda.
21 - After banks, insurance industry, wall street, etc destroyed our economy, they want to maintain the status quo and not regulate the financial industry to satisfy the financial lobbyists and get more campaign donations to defeat the Democrats. In other words, the hell with Main Street – see #2 and 3 above.
22 - Not sure, but perception is they don’t care much for minorities -- blacks, hispanics, women
23 - Believes in Bush trickle down theory - see #2 above. While it only trickles to greedy corporate pockets or politicians campaign funds.
24. - Will beat Dems in campaign donations because they will get huge donations from corporate America to stop the dems from passing laws that gives corporations unfair advantage to milk the middle class by stealing their dollars and denying services to middle class Americans after paying years for those services. (Bush economy).
25. Republican’s love using buzz words. For example as soon as Obama tries to pass laws to prevent unfair practices by corporate America, the Right screams “free market”. Yet when laws are passed by the Republicans to give corporations and wall street market advantage we never hear them scream “let the free market work”. Republicans should be the party of hypocrites.
26. Good at spending our tax dollars and killing our young men and women in unnecessary wars
27. Republicans seem to believe it is ok that our tax dollars pay for their health care but not middle class health care.
28. Republicans like to reference the evils of “big government” and the Republicans will make sure they pass laws, block useful legislation for middle class and create as much red tape as possible to prove their point.
29. Republicans are great at using trivia (lets pick on what the first lady is wearing, or where the President goes to dinner, vacation, campaigning for winter Olympics, etc) to try to distract Americans from the real issues
30. If you have a few million dollars, you can buy a Republican. For a bargain price, you can get a conservative democrat a little cheaper. Any conservative movement is anti-middle class even though they disguise every policy/law as if it is for middle class America. If you believe a Republican rhetoric, I have a bridge to nowhere to sale you.
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