Brilliant Republican strategy to take back the US House!

[Eric J in MN]

From Representative Mike Pence (R-IN):

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002717878&parm1=5&cpage=3

Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana said voters in Muncie and Anderson and at a town-hall meeting in Fort Wayne on Saturday expressed disappointment with Republicans and suggested the GOP deserved its comeuppance in 2006 for veering from limited government.

Republicans now need to get the word out that they are returning to conservatism with fights against expanding a children’s health initiative...

Democrats will have more money and more incumbents running for the House.

But if Republicans stress that they're against S-CHIP expansion to insure more children, then what chance do we have?

(sarcasm)

[madokie]

1. delusion is all they have left it seems

[rpannier]

2. It's logical

I've read in a few places that the majority of people living in powert are children and we all know how republikkans feel about poor people.

[rpannier]

10. powert was supposed to be poverty

sorry bout that

[Kokonoe]

3. thats gonna work, let them go with it.

:rofl:

[tanyev]

4. Those lazy, shiftless children need to get jobs and pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Or make themselves so adorable that rich people who can afford insurance won't be able to resist adopting them, even if they already have parents.



Do I really need this?
:sarcasm:

[Guaranteed]

5. The bums will always lose! nt

[peekaloo]

13. Little Lebowski Under Achievers.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. And what a great source of cheap labor!

Might even be the solution to the lack of workers caused by immigration reform. We don't need Mexican farmworkers! We got kids!

[Juche]

12. Tom Delay said it

He said something like 'if we didn't have Roe v. Wade we would have enough americans to do the jobs that immigrants are doing here in America'.

[Winterblues]

17. Not if they aren't kept healthy

Republicans are extremely short sighted...The sole purpose of government is to "Maintain the Health and Welfare of the Nation".. they don't understand that everything stems from that....Without a healthy citizenry you have nothing..

[tanyev]

19. See, that's why they don't want anyone to use contraception.

Just replace the ones that get too sick to work.

[Swamp Rat]

7. Who needs healthy children... pass the Cheetos...

:popcorn:... and bring me a beer! :beer:

[Eric J in MN]

14. LOL

NT

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. "C'mon Amurka, we can make this mess even worse! Vote GOP!!"

:rofl:

[Juche]

9. Jesus Christ

I live in Pence's district. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. How the fuck did Indiana become such a fucking embarassment? Angry, culturally isolated white people don't vote rationally IMO.

He is such a dumbfuck anyway. He apparently thinks dismantling the constitution, spying on everyone w/o a warrant and endless war is ok, but children's healthcare is 'big government'. God forbid we spend an extra $7 billion a year on kids healthcare when we could be spending $3 trillion on endless wars overseas.

Here is his competitor if you want to donate. I have given about $50 so far to Welsh. I should probably go out and register voters but I am too introverted to feel comfortable accosting strangers. I wonder if you can register voters in teams or pairs instead of by yourself.

http://www.barrywelsh.org/

PS Pence and his conservative budgets are shite and doublespeak. He rubber stamped everything Bush put in front of him. He rubber stamped 4 trillion in deficit spending.

Whats comical is that Fareed Zakaria wrote that when the GOP abandoned their principles of limited government they did better. The medicare part D plan is one of the most popular things they did. I think SCHIP has support from 80-90% of the public.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/112770

"David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter, begs to differ. "On the contrary," Frum writes in his smart new book, "Comeback," "the evidence suggests that a more consistent, more principled, more conservative administration would have been even more soundly rejected by the public than the unpopular Bush administration ever was." As Frum documents, every Bush policy that conservatives decry is in fact wildly popular. Public support for prescription-drug benefits ranges from 80 to 90 percent. And every Bush policy conservatives favor is regarded by the public with great suspicion. A majority of Americans regard the Bush tax cuts as "not worth it," and would prefer increased spending or balancing the budget to cutting taxes. In the one area where Bush remains unfailingly popular with conservatives—foreign policy—public support has also collapsed. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of Americans who believe that military force can reduce the risk of terrorism dropped sharply between 2002 and 2006, from 48 percent to 32 percent."


Let the GOP destroy itself until only the voluntarily ignorant, truly bigoted and grossly misinfored are left. By that time everyone else will be voting libertarian or democrat.

[Eric J in MN]

15. I've gone door-knocking in pairs.

It's much more pleasant than doing it alone.

[frogcycle]

11. if that doesn't work

they will bite the heads off of baby chicks

[flashl]

16. Did they get the memo?

GOP Leaders Warn of Election Disaster

Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party ’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money. The Republican brand has been so badly damaged...

[spanone]

18. they might have a chance if they got rid of bums like pence...assholes like him are their problem

not to mention bu$h*