too funny - "New Republicans"

[Victor_c3]

Sadly, I think this is for real. This is making Jeb bush and company sound more progressive than Hillary "Goldman Sachs" Clinton.

When they said that they support driving the economy from the bottom-up, does that mean an end to the failed policies of trickle down economics and ridiculous tax breaks for the rich?

When they say that they aren't the party of big business does that mean they are going to end corporate welfare, stop pandering to the banks and wall street and actually prosecute those responsible for ruining the lives of millions of Americans when they crashed the economy in 2007?

Does this mean they are going to separate themselves from the dirty campaign money from the likes of the Koch brothers and Shelton Adelson?

I doubt this means any of that. However, if they are trying to make themselves sound a little progressive economically, it means that the republicans recognize economic progressivism is on the rise and they need to be a part of it (which can't be a bad thing).

[doxydad]

1. NEW?

Looks exactly like the OLD Tea-Hadists. There's not ONE Repub who at this time is electable. The 2016 election will take car of itself...Now then, let's get some House members back, and protect the Senate majority.

[JHB]

2. Meet the New Republican, same as the Old Republican

Where was the "new" part? It was the same rhetoric they've been using for 40 years.

[tclambert]

7. Yeah, but sometimes those simple slogans work.

They got people elected who had no business being in government (the initials GWB spring to mind)--people who insisted government can't do anything right so why bother trying, and then tried their best to demonstrate government incompetence once elected, and yet voters keep voting for them.

I'm sorry, I'm feeling on the verge of a stupid voters rant. The Citizens United and McCutcheon rulings have me extremely worried that a flood of dishonest TV commercials will saturate the attention of the low information voters and allow the Koch brothers to buy the next election cycle.

[Augiedog]

3. Snakes

Snakes do this too. Periodically they shed their skin, then of course they are shiney new snakes, nothing like the slimy old snakes reported in the tales of yore.

[Hoppy]

4. Bobby, If the New Republicans can't be the party of Big Business, how are they gonna win elections?

[DhhD]

5. Republican's New Angle: Profiteers of Big Business Deceive Public By Calling It Home-Rule

Profiteers hiding behind the term Home-Rule trying to say the GOP Platform is for children, students and hard working neighborhood people; trying to convince taxpayers that they are not a part of the big Money Men business world:

http://neighborsgoblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/jeb-bush-was-keynote-speaker-at-changing-the-odds-dinner.html/
http://allianceaft.tx.aft.org/press/push-home-rule-charter-power-grab-threatens-public-school-quality-and-parental-rights.

And Louisiana hiding the big Money Men behind state funding decisions as:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1054192

[Hoppy]

10. If anyone knows Vitter,

Ask him if Depends are better than cloth.

Inquiring minds want to kno.

[kmlisle]

6. Jeb is smart and he was a much more popular governor than the present one

Although upon reflection that says almost nothing about popularity. However I did have a bumper sticker on my car that said "Jeb doesn't care about our kids" proving I have had the number of the over-testing scheme for many years.

He is the creator of the pay for play ed reform "Testing is teaching" scheme presently being inflicted on our schools.

[erpowers]

8. Same Thing Just Said Another Way

Neither the people in the video nor the ideas in the video are new. Republicans like Bobby Jindal and Jeb Bush have realized that the rhetoric of building the economy from the middle class and poor(bottom) instead of from the rich(top) has become popular. They are just trying to ride,that wave.

[geretogo]

9. Ignore what Republicans say just watch what they do . They are lier's , thieves ,and sociopaths .

[Nitram]

11. Rebranding Republican-style

What a laugh!