Shades of desperation coming from the RNC?
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/apr/12/rnc_assault_on_pelosi_leans_heavily_on_wapo_editorialCheck Out The RNC's Whole Case Against Pelosi -- All In One Tidy Memo
By Greg Sargent | bio
In advance of an appearance that Nancy Pelosi is making on Jay Leno's show tonight, the Republican National Committee has emailed out a lengthy memo attacking the Speaker that's really worth a look, because it says a great deal about the current political situation. You can read it here -- it's kind of a compendium of all the winger talking points that have been swirling in recent weeks, and as such represents the totality of the GOP's case against the House Dem leadership. You can really see that the GOP's got nothing -- for now. More after the jump.
There are three key things about it worth noting. First, check out how neatly its message on the bogus Pelosi-to-Syria story dovetails with the way in which some of the big news orgs covered the story. Two now-infamous editorials about the trip -- one in The Washington Post and the other in USA Today -- are prominently featured by the RNC here. You'd think that might prompt a bit of embarrassment on the part of the two papers' edit boards -- they played along so closely with the GOP spin on this story that their work is now integral to the RNC's case against Pelosi.
Second, note the heavy reliance on other, similar smears and outright falsehoods: The memo accuses Pelosi and the Dems of "delaying emergency war funds," which has nothing to do with what happened in the real world, which is that the Dems have passed a troop funding bill in both Houses of Congress. It also contains the obligatory reference to Pelosi's alleged desire to take a trip to Iran -- with no mention of course of the fact that Pelosi's spokespeople have been on record for nearly 24 hours now saying unequivocally that she isn't taking a trip to Iran.
Finally, and perhaps most important, note the virtual absence of criticism of any of the House Dems' actual legislative agenda. The only references to anything of substance are the misrepresentation of the troop funding bill and a reference to the House Dems' tax policies. No reference whatsoever to anything done during the first 100 days. In other words, the GOP has virtually nothing at all to hit the House Dems with aside from the thoroughly phony "controversies" that have been ginned up by a compliant media all too willing to amplify the GOP's crudest talking points.
While Dems certainly have their work cut out for them -- their approval ratings have been slipping of late and they face some very tough choices ahead as to what to do to confront the President's impending veto of their Iraq legislation -- the lack of substance in this document is telling indeed. For the moment, anyway.
Link to memo:
http://gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=6891
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