Boehner Spokesman: Description Of GOP’s Drag-Dems-Down Strategy Is “Largely Correct”

[babylonsister]

Better, principled solutions? When do they start? :popcorn::boring:

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Boehner Spokesman: Description Of GOP’s Drag-Dems-Down Strategy Is “Largely Correct”


I asked House GOP leader John Boehner’s office if he agreed with Patrick McHenry’s claim yesterday that the GOP strategy is to “bring down approval numbers” of Nancy Pelosi and House Dems.

McHenry, as you know, said: “We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010. Our goal is to bring down approval numbers for Pelosi and for House Democrats. That will take repetition. This is a marathon, not a sprint.”

Here’s the response, from Boehner spokesperson Michael Steel:

“I think that’s largely correct, but incomplete. Obviously, as Leader Boehner has said repeatedly, we stand ready to work with the Speaker and the President when it is in the best interest of the American people. When we cannot work together, Republicans will offer better solutions — rooted in our principles — to the problems facing our country. If House Democrats push for the same tired liberal agenda of higher taxes to pay for more ineffective government spending, I imagine that their standing with in the polls will suffer, but our first priority is doing the right thing for the American people, and we hope it is theirs as well.”

My parsing of this is that Boehner believes that McHenry’s description of the party’s strategic goal as winning the message war and dragging down Dem poll numbers is “largely correct,” but that McHenry left out the GOP’s willingness on principle to work with Dems and that the GOP’s “first priority is doing the right thing for the American people.”

That would appear to stop short of disagreeing with or criticizing McHenry.

[bdamomma]

1. catapulting the propaganda is all they have.

any message to the masses who are losing jobs and their houses every day a big NO. Repigs just think about Repigs.

[elleng]

2. Not disagreeing at all;

reps will play the same game they've been playing for years. "That will take repetition."

[polichick]

3. They are in the final stages of their demise - time to call the minister.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. "American people" is GOP code for the top 1% of the wealthy.