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Dems: "Dear America, You All Suck"
By Tom Forbes | 02/03/10 | 01:07 PM EDT | 8 Comments
Remember last April 15 when President Obama was "unaware" of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans taking to the streets in protest of massive deficits and corporate bailouts? (Also remember when dissent was patriotic not "extremist" and speaking truth to power was heroic, not "hateful?")
Well, after one of the largest protests ever in D.C., followed by stunning electoral victories in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, the Democrats can definitely hear us now. An e-mail from the Democratic Governors Association obtained by theblogmocracy.com reveals just how scared they are of you, John and Jane Q. Citizen, and how much contempt they hold for you:
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Dear xxxxxxxx-Tea Party hysteria has snowballed into a truly dangerous third-party political force. These guys aren’t going away. They’ve proven they can raise millions in a matter of hours and they’re skewing elections across the nation. Can you imagine the havoc they would wreak if they took office en masse? If they had their way, how many states would even stay in the U.S.?
After the GOP won two Democratic governorships and, just last week, took Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat (after 57 years in Democratic hands), the Far Right thinks they have the momentum to defeat us this November — even the 37 governors’ races that are up for grabs.
These angry, extremist Teabaggers will go to any length to crush every inch of President Obama’s agenda.
Americans, every one of us, deserve governors who will fight for the middle class — not self-serving politicians who kowtow to special interests whose political hero is Sarah Palin. But that’s exactly what the GOP’s Tea Party-obsessed candidates are doing.
President Obama is facing the greatest challenges of our age, not to mention a monumental mess left behind by eight years of Republican rule. And yet he’s accomplished more than any first-year president in recent history. But, as they’ve done continuously since being booted from power, Republicans are fighting to steer us back to the failed policies and fear tactics of the Bush-Cheney-Rove era.
With 37 governorships, 36 Senate seats, and the entire U.S. House up for election in just 10 months, Republicans are going to the lowest lows — lying, cheating, smearing — to destroy the achievements we’ve fought so hard for. And you can bet they have no plans to stop.
Then, in support of President Obama, forward this to every friend and relative you can. Each voice added to yours and mine will build the power of our message and create a potent antidote to the Tea Party’s hate-filled political hysteria.
Because as loud as they yell, with enough voices of our own I know we can prevail. Help us spread this message. America deserves better than the GOP’s callous political games. America deserves solutions.
Thank you standing with us,
Colleen Turrentine
Democratic Governors Association*******************************
So now, in addition to the shrill idiots at MSNBC, elected Democratic officals are using the vulgar slang term "teabagger," which refers to a sexual act between gay men. Classy. And yeah, Sarah Palin STILL scares the hell out of the liberals. I imagine Sarah is now the bogeyman leftist mommies use to threaten their kids: "Eat all your organic arugula Billy, or the Wicked Witch of the North will come take you away and make you work at a Walmart sweatshop in China."
Notice the symmetry of this e-mail with the confidential memo sent out by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee that urged Democratic Senate candidates to paint their opponents as "extremists" if they happen to believe in the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Democratic Senator Patty Murray's recent fundraising e-mail that warned that Republicans “are emboldened like perhaps never before, and their thirst for victory is unquenchable. And since they can't run a positive campaign on the strength of their own ideas, they'll resort to the same old underhanded tactics right out of Karl Rove's playbook" and the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees funded website TheTeaPartyIsOver.org.
Yep, the Democrats' risky, desperate and dangerous strategy (perhaps being crafted by David Plouffe) for November is now obvious. All you flag-waving stay-at-home moms, retirees, veterans, farmers, teachers, and blue-collar workers: You suck. And not only do you suck, we hate you.
But the DGA is right. "These guys aren’t going away" and "have no plans to stop." And we do have "an unquenchable thirst for victory" and aim to "skew elections across the nation" because Americans have had enough of the Democrats' politics of hate and division, even if it is in the name of "peace, progress, and tolerance."
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...for reminding us the as the Tea Party demonstrators quaintly put it on their placards...They are the "Real Americans"...everyone else is either an elitist, a socialist, a welfare case, just plain bum...and being "ordinary", whatever that means, is good, real good.
Give me a break...
Arizona
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-7) Fax: 202-225-1541 = AZ 7th Distict
California
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-6) Fax: 202-225-5163- CA 6th District
Rep. Lois Capps (D-23) Fax: 202-225-5632 - CA 23rd District
Rep. Sam Farr (D-17) Fax: 202-225-6791- CA 17th district
Rep. Bob Filner (D-51) Fax: 202-225-9073 - CA 51st district
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-9) Fax: 202-225-9817 - CA 9th District
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-47) Fax: 202-225-5859 - CA 47th District
Rep. Pete Stark (D-13) Fax: 202-226-3805 - CA 13th District
Rep. Mike Honda (D-15) Fax: 202-225-2699 - CA 15th District
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-12) Fax: 202-226-4183- CA 12th District
Rep. Diane Watson (D-33) Fax: 202-225-2422 - CA 33rd District
Rep. George Miller (D-7) Fax: 202-225-5609 - CA 7th District
Connecticut
Rep. Jim Himes (D-4) Fax: 202-225-9629- 4th district Indiana
Rep. André Carson (D-7) Fax: 202-225-5633 - 7th district
Iowa
Rep. Bruce Braley (D-1) Fax: 202-225-9129 - 1st district
Kentucky
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-3) Fax: 202-225-5776 - 3rd district
Maryland
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-7) Fax: 202-225-3178
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-4) Fax: 202-225-8714
Massachusetts
Rep. Michael Capuano (D-8) Fax: 202-225-9322 - 8th district
Rep. William Delahunt (D-10) Fax: 202-225-5658 - 10th district
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-3) Fax: 202-225-5759 - 3rd district
Rep. John Tierney (D-6) Fax: 202-225-5915 - 6th district
Rep. John Olver (D-1) Fax: 202-226-1224- 1st district
Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-9) Fax: 202-225-3984 - 9th district
Michigan
Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-13) Fax: 202-225-5730
Rep. John Conyers (D-14) Fax: 202-225-0072
Rep. John Dingell (D-15) Fax: 202-226-0371
Minnesota
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-5) Fax: 202-225-4886 - 5th district
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-4) Fax: 202-225-1968 - 4th district
Rep. James Oberstar (D-8) Fax: 202-225-6211- 8th district
New Jersey
Rep. Donald Payne (D-10) Fax: 202-225-4160 - 10th district -
Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) Fax: 202-225-6025- 12th district
Rep. William Pascrell (D-8) Fax: 202-225-5751- 8th district
New York
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-22) Fax: 202-226-0774 - 22nd district
Rep. Paul Tonko (D-21) Fax: 202-225-5077 - 21st district
Rep. Eric Massa (D-29) Fax: 202-226-6599- 29th district
North Carolina
Rep. David Price (D-4) Fax: 202-225-2014 - 4th district
Ohio
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-9) Fax: 202-225-7711 - 15th district
Re. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-15) 614-294-2196 – 9th district
Oregon
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-3) Fax: 202-225-8941-3rd district
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-4) Fax: 202-225-0032 - 4th district
Pennsylvania
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-2) Fax: 202-225-5392 - 2nd district
Rep. Joe Sestak (D-7) Fax: 202-225-0280 - 7th district
Vermont
Rep. Peter Welch (D-At Large) Fax: 202-225-6790 - 1st district
Virginia
Rep. Jim Moran (D-8) Fax: 202-225-0017 - 8th district
Washington
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-7) Fax: 202-225-6197 - 7th district
Rep. Adam Smith (D-9) Fax: 202-225-5893 – 9th district
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-1) Fax: 202-226-1606 - 1st district
Rep. Brian Baird (D-3) Fax: 202-225-3478 - 3rd district
West Virginia
Rep. Nick Rahall (D-3) Fax: 202-225-9061 – 3rd district
Wisconsin
Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-2) Fax: 202-225-6942 -2nd district
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-4) Fax: 202-225-8135 - 4th district
Virginia
Rep. Glen Nye (D-2) Fax: 202-225-4218 - 2nd district
Mark... pretty sure you have to move beyond whatever simplistic view of the world you appear to be in to actually understand foreign relations. You could also try to advance beyond vast oversimplifications and generalizations.
As for this e-mail, its certainly dirty politics, but I'm not sure that the term teabaggers is intended to be any more derogatory than, say, democRATS or any of the other names that have been thrown around here. To be sure, none of them have a place in politics, and I equally condemn the childish namecalling of both sides, but you have to be willing to see the balance.
Also, the reason liberals don't like Palin is, quite fankly, because she's an idiot. We saw her give interviews and get tripped up by almost childishly simplistic questions (what newspapers do you read, what foreign policy experience do you have, what do you think of the Bush Doctrine). We watched her abandon her state in a time of economic crisis to make money for herself, and we watched her present no new, feasible, or helpful ideas during and after a presidential election. Her value to conservatives appears to be that she is "ordinary", which is fine for you I suppose, but I personally want my represenatives to be smarted than just average, and to have ideas that are new and different and yes a bit difficult to understand and which require some change. Tell me, why is that such a bad thing to hope for in anybody from a President to a City Council Representative? Don't we want leaders who are the best and the brightest?
Finally, please do not try to put words into the mouths of Democrats. Not once has anyone with credibility said that blue collar workers "suck" or that "we hate them". I understand that it might make for a good soundbit, but I'm hoping that given your earlier criticism of Democratic language you would be more careful with you own.
If you really want to have a debate though, then please answer the question I've been asking for months... what is the Republican plan to reform healthcare so that costs are brought down and all Americans have health insurance?
I promise, your eyes won't melt: http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare
Halfway through the bill now, and what I love is that there are alread contridictions between the bill and Republican talking points, along with billions of dollars in requested appropirations which Republicans have never presented a way to pay for. My favorite contradiction so far... the bill prevents annual or lifetime limits on benefits, something I've heard plenty of Republicans say is a flaw with the Democratic bill.
Thanks for reading it. At least you know where to find the GOP position now. I am not saying that there bill is perfect, yet it isn't over 2000 pages. I think that there are probably portions of each bill that can be negotiated into a version that addresses true reform and not overall government control of 1/6 of the economy. The "bipartisan" effort that should be looked at as an example is when Bill Clinton negotiated with Trent Lott and the Republican Congress over welfare reform. The current bipartisan effort that is proclaimed to have occurred is truly non-existent.
Megan, regarding the 2,000 pages... that really isn't all that much language considering 2 things. The first is that the bill are written in large font, double spaced, with wide margins. The second, is that bills have to spell out, in very laborious terms, what everything means. So, for example, if the Democrats say that they want all people to be able to afford health insurance, and further say that to guarantee this the government will provide subsidies on a sliding scale, that then translates into hundreds and hundreds of pages of a bill.
Finally, while I haven't yet had a chance to finish reading the bill so I could be wrong, I seriously doubt it does anything to provide coverage to the 30 million Americans currently without healthcare. What's more, if it includes limits on prohibiting insurers from denying pre-existing conditions without an individual mandate, and without a way to help low-income people fulfill that mandate, it will destroy the insurance industry as people will be able to wait until they are sick to buy health insurance, and then won't be able to be turned away. I'm interested to finish reading it to see if the bill addresses any of these problems, or if its just window-dressing "healthcare reform".
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