2006's unofficial dem meme : "Throw out the Rubberstamp Republicans."

[iconoclastNYC]

We can just present every lousy Bush policy that came up for a vote in Congres and show the vote breakdown Republican versus Democrat and the message is : "No more rubber stamps for Bush's agenda - Vote Democrat"

[C_U_L8R]

1. Lets keep it simple

Throw out the republicans !

(heeheehee)

[proReality]

2. Sorry, but after watching the live CSPAN session last night...

the majority of Dems are inking the rubber stamp for the Repubs.

See: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5633552

Roll Call 670
On Agreeing to the Conference Report on Budget Reconciliation, 2006 (S. 1932) http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll670.xml

[iconoclastNYC]

3. The minority has no power in the HOUSE

Why don't you back up your oppinion with something more than a few links.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121700992_pf.html

Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, said this fall that “the people’s representatives over on the Hill in that other branch of government have truly abandoned their oversight responsibilities and have let things atrophy to the point that if we don’t do something about it, it’s going to get even more dangerous than it already is.”

In an interview last week, Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, said “it’s a fair comment” that the GOP-controlled Congress has done insufficient oversight and “ought to be” doing more.

“Republican Congresses tend to overinvestigate Democratic administrations and underinvestigate their own,” said Davis, who added that he has tried to pick up some of the slack with his committee. “I get concerned we lose our separation of powers when one party controls both branches.”

Democrats on the committee said the panel issued 1,052 subpoenas to probe alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration and the Democratic Party between 1997 and 2002, at a cost of more than $35 million. By contrast, the committee under Davis has issued three subpoenas to the Bush administration, two to the Energy Department over nuclear waste disposal at Yucca Mountain, and one last week to the Defense Department over Katrina documents.

Some experts on Congress say that the legislative branch has shed much of its oversight authority because of a combination of aggressive actions by the Bush administration, acquiescence by congressional leaders, and political demands that keep lawmakers out of Washington more than before.

“I do not think you can argue today that Congress is a coequal branch of government; it is not,” said Lee H. Hamilton, president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman and vice chairman of the Sept. 11 commission, told reporters this month: “It has basically lost the war-making power. The real debates on budget occur not in Congress but in the Office of Management and Budget. . . . When you come into session Tuesday afternoon and leave Thursday afternoon, you simply do not have time for oversight or deliberation.”

[Jacobin]

4. That worked very well in Louisiana senate election

last time. Landrieu(D) was faced with an extremely well funded Bushbot. She said she would represent the state and not just vote to support Bush*s policies if she thought they were wrong. BushBots did a HUGE push to get her defeated and it didn't work.

She not the greatest senator by any means, but she's light years ahead of what her opponent would have done.

I think your slogan is great and I think people are ready for it.

:thumbsup:

[doubleplusgood]

5. "Subpoena Power"

Al Franken's suggestion.

[iconoclastNYC]

6. The masses respond: "What's a subpoena?"

And....is it helpful to the spectre of political motivated hearings? It's only die hard partisan political junkies that get excited about that....the rest of the country is turned off by it.

What you focus on is the Bush agenda which the American people disapprove....and remind people that Republicans exist to rubberstamp that agenda.