Having reached the saturation point with their attacks on Rush Limbaugh; the Democrats are turning their attention toward other critics of the administration and launching new television attack ads against some equally reprehensible members of the GOP. The focus of the Democrat's ad campaign has been to bring light to the Republicans opposition elements against President Obama's economic stimulus plans.
The Democratic National Committee has been rapidly assembling ads that focus against "Republicans who haven’t warmed to the mega-stimulus or to President Obama’s budget outline," The New York Times reports. "If the “Party of Rush” won’t stick, then Republicans can be known as “The Party of No,” according to the D.N.C., although frankly, the Democrats would prefer the two labels weren’t mutually exclusive."
The New York Times Reports that the Democrats, in opening a new round of attacks against members of the GOP: "Opening up a new line of attack against Gov. Mark Sanford," The Democrats have confronted "the South Carolina Republican who has been perhaps the most vocal among Republican governors in rejecting aspects of the federal stimulus package."
The New York Times explains the DNC strategy: "In this new ad teeing off the economic crisis, the Democrats cite South Carolina’s unemployment rate and peg Mr. Sanford as a sort of Grinch. It will run in Columbia, the state’s capital, on cable television next week."
Gov. Mark Stanford's Communications director, Joel Sawyer, responded:
“Governor Sanford continues to believe that problems created by too much debt will never be solved by more debt. It’s time to put the partisan politics aside and for people who supported this stimulus legislation to start shooting straight with taxpayers on who is paying the bill for all of this spending.
"This so-called ’stimulus’ represents a federal predatory loan, the cost of which will be borne by future generations who will never have a chance to vote from office the very people who are saddling them with unprecedented spending and guaranteed future tax increases.”
The Democrats are particularly angry with Mr. Sanford's comparison of President Obama's economic policies "to those of Zimbabwe this week in the way" Gov. Stanford "views money being tossed around" by the Democrats. Stanford's "remarks set off another round in the exceptionally public feud with Representative James Clyburn, the No. 3 Democrat in the House who is from the Palmetto State."
The New York Times reports that: "Mike Schrimpf, communications director for the Republican Governors Association, issued a statement later today: “The White House’s attack machine is trying to distract from the fact that, while Republican governors are being fiscally responsible by carefully reviewing how the so-called stimulus bill impacts their states, tax-and-spend governors like Jon Corzine are enacting massive tax hikes on middle class families. … President Obama should heed his own campaign promises and call on the D.N.C. to stop attacking Republican governors for actually practicing the sort of fiscal responsibility that President Obama only campaigned on.”
The New York Times also reported that: Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, released a statement: "After years of losing elections here, the D.N.C. should know better than anyone that spending lots of money to try and brainwash S.C. voters with misleading ads will not work. South Carolinians are worried about the economy and their jobs, but they have little faith in Nancy Pelosi’s desire to spend our way back to economic success. Instead of wasting George Soros’ fortune bashing conservatives like Mark Sanford who are right to question further deficit spending, maybe the DNC should focus on some other state where they have more friends."
The New York Times also speculated that: "Given that other governors, like Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Rick Perry of Texas, also are among those debating large aspects of the stimulus package, it’s quite possible similar ads will turn up down the road against them."
The New York Times explains: "As far as responding to this type of political advertising, the national Republicans have not begun a similar effort perhaps reflecting a political party that is still trying to regain its footing after considerable losses."
The New York points out that: "But when it comes to being labeled the “party of no,” or the party of no ideas, several top G.O.P. officials are fighting back. A spokesman for Representative Eric Cantor, the Republican minority whip who is from Virginia, circulated statements made by the White House this week in which ideas that Republican lawmakers submitted to the administration were well-received despite the criticism that came recently from the president. The G.O.P. lawmakers continue to stress tax cuts over spending to aid small businesses, in particular."
The problem with the so-called GOP counterattack is that it relies on policies that put the country into the economic conditions it currently faces; and to simply repackage those 'ideas' as productive and well received counter proposals to Democratic policies is a ploy that goes well beyond stretching the truth of the GOP's modus operandi since Reagan.
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