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The NRCC, posted this on their Website today...
They will never learn, will they.Republican Congressional Committee Bullies New Democrat House Members With ‘Pelosi Lap Dog Kit’
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Today, the National Republican Congressional Committee on its Website posted an article titled, “NRCC Welcomes House Dems To Congress with Official Lap Dog Kit” (preceded with the hashtag “PelosiLapDog”).
SNIP:
A distinguished group that was founded over 150 years ago, the NRCC was established as a body whose purpose was to elect congressional Republicans. If you’re not quite sure how the ‘Pelosi Lap Dog’ brochure fits into the NRCC’s mission statement, you’re not the only one. Perhaps it’s meant as a party-building exercise (and goodness knows the Republican House members could use some party building). However, literature that promotes the idea of ridicule as the result of voting for or with your own party probably isn’t the best way to go about strengthening party solidarity. It seems a lot more like petty, nasty, immature, and needless bullying.
This isn’t the first time the NRCC has demonstrated exceptionally childish behavior, if you consider prank calls to be childish. According to the Washington Post, back during the 2006 elections, the NRCC barraged households with robo-calls that appeared to be from Democratic candidates in the hopes that the irritated callees would take their ire out on Democratic candidates.
This month, as part of the nation’s anti-bullying movement, No-Name-Calling Week will be taking place Jan. 21-25, 2013. We can only hope the NRCC, their members and supporters will take a lesson from it and move forward with the goal of setting a better example for the nation’s children while working toward solutions with some attempt at dignity.
SNIP:
A distinguished group that was founded over 150 years ago, the NRCC was established as a body whose purpose was to elect congressional Republicans. If you’re not quite sure how the ‘Pelosi Lap Dog’ brochure fits into the NRCC’s mission statement, you’re not the only one. Perhaps it’s meant as a party-building exercise (and goodness knows the Republican House members could use some party building). However, literature that promotes the idea of ridicule as the result of voting for or with your own party probably isn’t the best way to go about strengthening party solidarity. It seems a lot more like petty, nasty, immature, and needless bullying.
This isn’t the first time the NRCC has demonstrated exceptionally childish behavior, if you consider prank calls to be childish. According to the Washington Post, back during the 2006 elections, the NRCC barraged households with robo-calls that appeared to be from Democratic candidates in the hopes that the irritated callees would take their ire out on Democratic candidates.
This month, as part of the nation’s anti-bullying movement, No-Name-Calling Week will be taking place Jan. 21-25, 2013. We can only hope the NRCC, their members and supporters will take a lesson from it and move forward with the goal of setting a better example for the nation’s children while working toward solutions with some attempt at dignity.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/01/03/republican-congressional-committee-bullies-new-democrat-house-members-with-pelosi-lap-dog-kit/
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you’re not the only one. Perhaps it’s meant as a party-building exercise (and goodness knows the Republican House members could use some party building). However, literature that promotes the idea of ridicule as the result of voting for or with your own party probably isn’t the best way to go about strengthening party solidarity. It seems a lot more like petty, nasty, immature, and needless bullying."
Sounds like a job for DU-er Plaid Adder's post about why the left is so much better at humor:
(D)isrespect for authority is the foundation of real comedy...Craig Ferguson's...(2007) monologue includes a clear statement of what I have long believed is one of the cardinal rules of responsible and effective humor: mock the powerful, not the vulnerable...Mocking the powerful has the positive effect of reminding everyone that though these figures may be powerful, they are not superhuman, and can be resisted/outwitted/defied; it also has the therapeutic effect of validating the anger and pain we feel as we suffer for these people...Mocking the vulnerable is just bullying, and all it does is pander to the audience's worst instincts...
The NRCC's actual "mission" here is to force the creation of Boehner lapdogs. But because being a Pelosi lapdog, rather than BEING a lapdog, is what the NRCC is objecting to, they are forced to turn a blind eye to the fact that they are undermining their own authority by insisting that only GOP lapdogs have minds of their own.
Compare it to what the freshmen GOP Congress members received:
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It's not bullying or exploiting the vulnerability of the new Congress members, but mocking the waning power of a Tea Party that still has designs on controlling them. And because there are no instructions as to how to vote, the card makes its point without undermining the Democratic party's own authority and power. Which is why this prank is the more effective of the two.
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