Republicans to Democrats: Stop 'lies' and 'scare tactics'

[Nostalgic]

Aug 27, 2011

Republicans to Democrats: Stop 'lies' and 'scare tactics'

Republicans are accusing Democrats of using "scare tactics" to convince Americans the GOP wants end Medicare and Social Security.

In the party's weekly radio address, Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada says both parties should come together to fix those programs, overhaul the nation's tax code and pass pro-growth policies to right the economy.

"Let's stop the lies about who wants to end Medicare or eliminate Social Security and fix both programs now," Heller says. "If some in Washington would stop campaigning long enough to do their jobs, we could fix both and ensure their existence for generations to come."

Heller puts the blame for the sluggish economy squarely on President Obama's shoulders and notes his state has fared the worst.

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:crazy:

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. cue the laugh track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rav9ijyyZk

[Fumesucker]

2. Projection...

Invariably Republicans accuse Democrats of doing exactly the things the Republicans are doing.

[elleng]

4. Zackly. Just reverse the names.

[ixion]

6. Yep. They've used this with remarkable success over the past couple decades

with a great deal of assistance from the MSM.

[emulatorloo]

10. Projection is the first tactic they teach in Republican 101

I remember in 2004 Cheney saying thar Kerry had " no strong moral convictions or a strong sense of the difference between right and wrong.

[sakabatou]

3. "Stop using what we do or we'll go into a temper tantrum!"

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. +1

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Both parties should stop the lies and scare tactics

Heck , even Sen. Kerry said on Meet the Press a few weeks ago that Social Security, Medicare, an Medicaid are America's only serious long-term problem.

Enough with trying to steal the Trust Funds!

[The Second Stone]

7. Republicans have been trying to undermine and end

Social Security since it began. This continues today. During the Bush Administration they wanted to put it into the stock market so that Wall Street could loot the thing for them.

[AtomicKitten]

8. The GOP enthusiastically voted for the Ryan bill that ends Medicare as we know it (privatizes it).

Can't take that one back.

[Enrique]

9. Rick Perry says Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional

Marco Rubio says that those programs have degraded our country's moral fiber.

A bunch of them have called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme".

And they want to keep pretending they want to protect those programs? Why would they want to protect unconstitutional Ponzi schemes that have turned the American citezenry into parasites?

And they want Democrats to play along with that ridiculous narrative?

[aquart]

11. translation: Stop telling them what we're doing!

We paid all this money for pretty slogans that make it all nice.

[Tennessee Gal]

12. Here's a famous quote that covers this topic.

"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

Adlai Stevenson

[NorthCarolina]

14. The kicker is that many Dems want it as much as the GOP, including Obama. nt