NRCC now attacking Nancy Pelosi with distorted "facts" (Party of No meme)

[Roland99]

Just received this in email.

Feel free to rip it to shreds!!

“I don’t know what the middle class ever did to President Bush...”
- Nancy Pelosi, in a 5/3/05 press release, on the President’s plan to make Social Security stronger and more fair for future generations...

Which caused us to wonder:

What married couples ever did to Nancy Pelosi…
…because she voted against legislation to permanently end the Marriage Penalty Tax.

What the U.S. military ever did to Nancy Pelosi…
…because she has voted to slash defense spending at least 18 times.

What mothers and fathers ever did to Nancy Pelosi…
… because she voted against a bill to keep the $1000 per-child tax credit from falling to pre-2001 levels.

What seniors who need prescription drugs ever did to Nancy Pelosi…
… because she voted against a measure to save seniors 75% off the costs of their prescription drugs.

What unborn victims of crime ever did to Nancy Pelosi…
… because she voted against a bill recognizing them as crime victims during attacks on their mothers.

What family-owned businesses ever did to Nancy Pelosi…
…because she voted against a measure to eliminate the unfair Death Tax, which results in many family-owned businesses not surviving from one generation to the next.

“Nancy Pelosi can continue to play politics with Social Security,” National Republican Congressional Committee Communications Director Carl Forti said. “But she should instead be more concerned with her own pitiful record of helping the middle class, working families and the American people. Her record confirms what we’ve said all along:

Democrats have no ideas, no solutions and no agenda. They are truly the party of “no.”


Help Keep Pelosi in the Political Wilderness where she Belongs ! ! !

What a bunch of BS!!

Penn and Teller could have fun with this piece of trash.

[JugDack]

1. If they weren't Republicans

<<<Penn and Teller could have fun with this piece of trash.>>>

If they weren't Republicans...

[LSparkle]

3. Whoa -- aren't they libertarians (not Rethugs)?

[JugDack]

6. Not sure, to be honest

I saw Penn bashing Democrats and assumed. Perhaps he's just a Libertarian.

[Roland99]

8. I saw them bashing some conspiracy theorists, including JFK ones

I can't believe they think Oswald was the lone gunman.

[napi21]

2. I suggest putting the same kind of list together re: Shrub!

Or Frist, DeLay, or any of the other Pub members of the House & Senate. That's exactly what they did with Kerry during the campaign. It's the main reason the last Senator ELECTED to the presidency was JFK!

It should be fairly easy to do, and I guess the best one to do it on would be Frist, since he's the Majority leader and Nancy is the Minotiry leader.

[dkofos]

4. Out of the mouths of nonthinking idiots.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Send it to TDS

[Roland99]

7. Not sure what they'd do with it.

I'll pick it apart later on tonight and put it on my blog and send it around to some folks. :)


Have some things going on this evening and it's been busy here at work today so it'll have to wait.

[kaygore]

9. I'd be worried if...

Nancy came from a state other than California. Especially since Arnold, the Democratic Party is alive and well in California. Tomarrow, there will be a meeting to put in the rigged voting machines in California so that the elections can be stolen. However, if they attempt this in California, it will be their downfall. We are ready for them and will rip the mask off their faces and show the corruption that is Diebild, etc. and the Republican Rovians.

Isn't rigging elections treason? Wouldn't be great to put all these guys in California jails for the rest of their lives!

[CBHagman]

10. First off, it's not the "death tax"

It's the inheritance tax, which applies to maybe 2 percent of estates, and the notion that the GOP seeks to eliminate it because of family farms and businesses is utter nonsense, as we learned when there were not enough Republican votes to pass either an exemption of family businesses and farms or a simple raising of the exemption amount.

Also, the supposedly heart-rending tales of how the inheritance tax destroys family businesses and farms are just that -- tales. The reality is much less dramatic and much more mundane.

By the way, not all members of the GOP support outright elimination of the inheritance tax. Amo Houghton (now retired from the House) and John McCain come to mind.

The elimination of the inheritance tax is not designed to save businesses and farms. It's to allow for money that comes through labor to be taxed at higher rates than money that comes through blood relations or marriage. It's to spare billionaires' heirs from having to pay a tax on their inheritances while putting the squeeze on average working stiffs.

Secondly, the so-called marriage penalty doesn't apply to all married couples, so one can hardly regard one's position on it to reflect one's personal view of marriage.

The prescription drug bill is untested, unpopular, and doesn't permit the government to bargain for lower drug prices. We sure as hell don't know what the long-term price implications are for seniors. Therefore, generlizations are premature. Stay tuned.


If I recall correctly, the child tax credit doesn't apply to all families either.

Military spending? Anyone with half a brain knows that all military spending is not created equal and that the details of any appropriations bill matter. Are all increases to be accepted blindly, or should one discuss the policy implications? Doesn't the author of the message recall examples of waste and incompetence in military spending and practices? No? Then where has he (I'll bet it's a he) been?

In short, this is the usual half-assed propaganda that is short on facts, long on emotions, and completely deserving of the delete button for anyone with even vague knowledge of how the tax code, Social Security and federal government work, let alone what current administration policy is.

[MsTryska]

11. reply and cut everything out except for....

"They are truly the party of "No".


and then respond liek this:


"It's the grownup's job to say No, when children act inappropriately."