DNC begins targeted counteroffensive on stimulus

[babylonsister]

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/07/08/dnc-begins-targeted-counteroffensive-on-stimulus/

DNC begins targeted counteroffensive on stimulus
@ 1:10 pm by Aaron Blake


The Democrats are fighting back on the GOP's stimulus criticism.

The majority party is no longer content just to let the stimulus debate play out in the real world. With an eye toward 2010, it's now mounting a public relations offensive to assure voters that the package is working.

In the last two days, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has launched a cable ad buy against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and a web ad against House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) for their criticism of the stimulus.

And the DNC isn't stopping at leadership. It has also taken aim at some new Republican candidates who have criticized the package as they began their campaigns. In releases dubbed "Failure to Launch," the DNC attacked former Ohio state Sen. Steve Stivers and Florida state Rep. Dorothy Hukill within a day of them entering the race.

In each case, the party is pointing to specific district projects benefiting from the stimulus - an airport and a college in Hukill's and renovation and public projects in Stivers's - in an effort to shape the debate in a key House race.

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http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/07/08/dnc-begins-targeted-counteroffensive-on-stimulus/

[sutz12]

1. The best defense is a good offense...

The other day, some RWer on the other board I hang at (actually a sports board) started a thread about how the stim wasn't working and that they hadn't spent a lot of the money yet or some such thing.

I wrote back that I remember them complaining about the stim back when it was voted on, and now they were complaining about how the money wasn't being spent fast enough, and isn't that a bit ironic, if not outright hypocritical.

The sputtered some of the typical RW talking points, but really had no meaningful response.

Stay on the attack. We need to constantly remind folks that it was RW bullshit that got us here.