Betting pool: How long ’til the GOP starts claiming “We are the change that we seek?”
I really didn’t think it could get much worse than the GOP’s “Change You Deserve” crapola that I blogged about this afternoon.
Should have gone to bed without checking my e-mail one last time.
Because GOP House leader John Boehner’s latest press release tonight on the Mississippi special election loss just made me lose my late-night snack. (That–and the return of Zubaz pants. Agh.)
After you read this, make your predictions: How long ’til the GOP starts co-opting Obama’s stupefying line, “We are the change that we seek?”
It’s only a matter of time:
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) tonight responded to the special election results in Mississippi’s First Congressional District. Boehner released the following statement:
“The results in MS-01 should serve as a wake-up call to Republican candidates nationwide. As I’ve said before, this is a change election, and if we want Americans to vote for us we have to convince them that we can fix Washington. Our presidential nominee, Senator McCain, is an agent of change; candidates who hope to succeed must show that they’re willing and able to join McCain in a leading movement for reform.
“We need to stop wasteful Washington spending, fight and win the war on terror, and stop the largest tax increase in history. That is truly the change the American people deserve — and that is a message on which we can succeed.”
NOTE: Boehner recently delivered a presentation to the House Republican Conference entitled “Why We Can Win.” In it he argues that the 2008 electoral battle is a battle the GOP can win by showing Americans that Republicans are agents of change. And yesterday, GOP Leaders distributed a memo to House Republicans on “The Change America Deserves,” setting the stage for a “positive agenda of reform that delivers the change the American people are crying out for.”
Boehner serves as honorary chairman of The Freedom Project (www.freedomproject.org), a political action committee (PAC) established in 1995 to provide assistance to Republican candidates for federal office. Its mission is to help Republicans earn back the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Freedom Project is committed to a better America based on freedom and security, empowered citizens and personal responsibility.
Next up: GOP leaders rap about how they’re “the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
How much “change” did these feckless Beltway Republicans spend on the high-priced consultants who have turned them into Obama wannabes?
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Time to bring out that classic SNL Change Bank skit again. Who knew I’d have to resurrect it to ridicule the Republicans…
Saturday Night Live – First CityWide Change Bank 2
While I’m scouting for Effexor, Allah’s ready to break out the Elmer’s.
Just wait ’til McCain’s July La Raza/The Race speech…
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What kind of change are they talking about, nickels, dimes or quarters?
Your not supposed to ask for details. It’s just change.
After yesterday’s statement about Obama’s Atlantic interview and tonight’s statement about the results, Boehner should really keep his mouth shut for a while.
BLUF: Conservatives cannot compete with liberals on the same level as liberals.
As proven here, Republicans cannot compete toe-to-toe with Democrats in ad hominem games. They lose every time. Rather, Republicans need to assume the American people have a few brain cells left to discern a good idea from a bad one. What made Reagan’s ‘64 speech so great? He called liberalism out for what it was and communicated something better. Read the scorecard aloud concerning the democratic leadership and policies during their reign, then follow up with better ideas. Use historical examples. Use science, economics, logical reasoning, and embrace our Founding Principles and Christian morality. Don’t be scared of getting hurt by personal attacks. If you have a good idea and explain why it’s a good idea, then people won’t listen to ad hominem garbage. Reagan was the “Teflon president,” a little because of his shrewdness, but more so because people embraced his ideas and refused to allow such attacks to hurt their view of him. Maybe we should look to great Republican leaders of the past rather than potential future Democratic presidents for effective ideas and ways to communicate them.
Sad to say:
2008 GOP=Groveling–OUTATOUCH–Politicos.
No, this is ‘The Change We Ended Up With”, and it blows.
Thanks for the link Michelle.
‘The Change’ is absolutely meaningless without qualifiers. Change from what, change to what? Bunch of sheep.
Frankly, I’m shocked at the backlash against Zubaz pants. Are you telling me that my friends’ 6th grade fashion sense (Mom never bought me any, even the Green and Gold GB Packer Zubaz), was, in actuality, poor? HA! I scoff at that! I daresay you’ll next be telling me that wearing my Bugle Boy overalls with the tops hanging down, or girls hair-spraying their bangs straight up were fashion faux pas!
Seriously, though, at least we kept our underwear hidden. Plus, there’s probably more material in a pair of Zubaz than there was in that “prom dress” from yesterday.
Anyway, I’m off to do laundry. Got some sweet acid washed jeans that need cleaning, plus a whole bunch of Levi’s Botton Your Fly, No Fear, and Nike Bo Jackson and Air Jordan shirts to wash. Oh, and I gotta let the air out of my Reebok Pumps. See ya!
“We need to stop wasteful Washington spending, fight and win the war on terror, and stop the largest tax increase in history. That is truly the change the American people deserve — and that is a message on which we can succeed.”
this sentence is the sole statement John makes that contains any real substance, the rest is p.r. b.s. that, for reasons that completely escape me, the gop has chosen to put into a press release. Taking this statement on its face, it touches on 3 areas where republicans DO WIN, and if they do keep to those 3 things [stop wasteful spending, defeat our enemies in battle, and lower the tax burden] the gop can win in november, despite all the egg-tossing from the sidelines by our hostess, a. coulter, and, well, seemingly about 1/2 the right side of the ’sphere.
*vomits again at the GOP*
if I keep reading this site, I’ll have to go to the hospital from so much vomiting
“Don’t argue with stupid people. They’ll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Playing on the Democrats field of “change” is a hopeless endeavor –Why settle for a knock off when you can have the original (Democrats)
We keep letting Democrats beat us with conservatives. If Republicans want to win they’re going to have to make it clear that there is nothing conservative about the Democratic Party.
My own slogan would be something like: Bread, Milk, & Fuel.
These are items that everyone has seen spike in the last year. Republicans should commit to bringing inflation under control by strengthening the dollar, eliminating bio-fuels, and expanding our supply of energy to include nuclear power, offshore drilling and ANWR –Unfortunately, John McCain is going to be a problem on this
Let me get this straight: the change we deserve is…what we should already have?
This is a fairly lame list of objectives. I want specifics, with delivery dates.
Here’s a couple of changes we could use at the outset:
1) TERM LIMITS. Now. Let’s go with three for the House and two for the Senate. No grandfather clause, if you’ve done them, you’re out next cycle. Everyone. Now! Time to join the rest of us citizens in the real work of the nation. Amend the Constitution to make it as permanent as possible.
2) BALANCE THE BUDGET. Make some hard choices and get the fiscal house in order. Make it the law of the land. Amend the Constitution to make it as permanent as possible. No exceptions, even in a time of war. We’ll make sacrifices now rather than force our descendents to make sacrifices later. These idiot Keynesians (who don’t even know that they are so) are the reason that most American debt is owned by other nations. It is not a position of strength.
I said a couple, so there’s two. There are hundreds of specific things, many unpopular, that need to be done to “fix Washington”. But it will never happen.
One cannot fix what they don’t recognize as broken. It is never the person with the bad breath and the body odor who suffers.
Mr President, members of Congress, could you do something real for us? Could you go brush your teeth and take a shower, please? And you, yes you, GOP Caucus, you need to floss, too.
# 12 b
fwiw, JSM indicated the good points of nuclear power in a recent speech …
I’m so glad I never gave anymore money to the RNC. They can keep sending me those fake surveys all they want and I’ll just keep throwing them in the trash where they belong.
The story (read Crapola) says that John Boehner is the House Republican Leader.
Mr.Boehner isn’t leading. Mr.Boehner is selling us the Republican nominee. The Republican nominee is a FARCE.
Boehner knows that McCain is a FARCE.
Yet like a good PARTY-MAN, Boehner sacrifices any LEADERSHIP QUALITIES that he OSTENSIBLY possesses in an effort to INSULT those of us that he might need some day.
Boehner is trying to put LIPSTICK on a PIG.
He’d be better respected if he resigned his position in protest. A.k.a If he showed LEADERSHIP.
He didn’t.
He see’s his LEADERSHIP post as the Pinnacle of a career that had ZERO PRINCIPLED aspirations.
Another one bites the dust.
R.I.P. John Boehner. Conservatives WILL rise again, and you Mr. Boehner, will not be judged kindly.
Buckaroo my friend…. We are reaching a point, where a majority would rather DEPEND on GOVT. for their well being and financial needs, than compete in a an OPEN/FREE/CAPITALIST ECONOMY.
We’ve got WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too many government employees. We have WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too many DEPENDANT weak, lemmings. We’re near a tipping point where, THE MAJORITY actually believes that GOVERNMENT can provide for them. A near MAJORITY that is so IGNORANT as to WHERE GOVT DERIVES IT’S MONEY and HOW GOVT. spends that money irresponsibly, but that same NEAR MAJORITY, is like my 7 year old, and believes that CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM will always be on the table. These lib freaks and a-political leeches have given in to LIB SOCIALISM.
Because it is easier.
The WW2 and DEPRESSION ERA parents should have tought their worthless offspring what it means to perservere.
I’ve got Saturday 5/17 approximately 10 am CDT (which will be live-blogged).
Let’s just say that not all Pubbie politicians are thrilled with what their party’s doing, either on a national or statewide (Wisconsin in my case) basis.
I didn’t leave the Republican party, the republican party left me.
It’s not that they do not know anything, it is just that they know so much that is wrong.
Paraphrasing of course.
Earth to GOP, Earth to GOP…
Change will not come to the GOP until it stops trying to be like Democrats.
I registered Independent, not Republican, for the first time in my life. The Republican leadership is abysmal. Bush really demolished the party, with some help from the Congress, and there is no strong leader to bring the party back. I like McCain’s green ideas, but on several important conservative issues he is awful. Where is an inspiring conservative champion?
The only “change” I want is less taxes and less government. Unfortunately, people flock to vote for candidates that promise “change” meaning more taxes and more government control and interference, under the guise of “entitlements”.
The Politics of Change
As Rush likes to say, whenever Republicans act like Democrats, they get creamed in the polls.
Maybe if the parties begin to SAY something different, I will believe they are willing to DO something different.
“Cheap” and “dumb” gimmicks are just that…
…unless they are effective in luring (for lack of better words) independents away from voting for the Democrats.
Sure, I think there may be preferable – more true-to-”conservative” – ways, but would they be effective in 2008?
Change? Let’s see, on the menu there’s a fishy-tasting tofu, tofu with a chicken-like sauce, and tofu with a crappy artificial meat sauce that believes in Gullible Warming. I’m a meat eater – I ain’t having none of this crap!
My vote is too precious to waste it on a fool, a clown or a moron.
Someone needs to send McCain a copy of Barry Goldwaters book “The Conscience of a Conservative”.
That’s the change he needs. To get back to our roots!
Don’t support the Democrats’ unethnical behavior in the Mississippi election, but the Republicans are not responding to the issues people like me are concerned with, clampdown on illegal immigration, stopping appeasement as a foreign policy, welfare handouts, etc. I plan to vote for Tom Tancredo.
Heard the ad this morning, in New Hampshire, where Jeb Bradley seeks to regain the seat lost to Carol Shea-”murtha”-Porter. Jeb figures he’s the change. I’ll vote for him, not for any change greater than the butt in the chair…
Actually this tie in with Zubaz could be the smartest thing they have done in a great long while….with each fund raiser letter they can include a sample pack of Zubaz with instructions to save these things until election day. On election day you are to take all you have collected…10-12 of those babies and you won’t feel so bad about voting Republican. Although you may be so anti-depressed that you may need assistance getting to the poling place. I think I may pick up a few shares of Zubaz, this could be really big….
Thank you Michelle for allowing me on this site…as a newbie, I may not have as much knowledge politically as some bloggers, yet I certainly aspire to be atuned to my surroundings. This site has brought me some knowledge, both from postings and links. One thing I knew before: the liberalization of America will be the single biggest war ever waged by Americans (and fought by patriotic Americans). Nothing short of the creeping cancer socialism liberalism is. God help us to have the strength and wisdom to overcome our obstacles and keep our way of life as we knew it. Knowledge is power. I will keep reading. One added bonus that I have derived from this site: Loss of appetite. Have lost 12 pounds since becoming a member!! Thanks again Michelle!!
RINOs in power are seeing the change they deserve.
This is why I am intrigued right now by anyone else entering the race. I am sick and I mean really sick by this stuff. I hate to think about what is to come in the US and I am not even sure we all have a clue. We need someone else, across the board and we definitely need someone else than our current Pres. Candidates.
The real dilemma right now is that in order to overcome who we have now to choose from, that person must be recognizable and a big figure. How do you get that without them also being part of the elite and susceptible to “compromise?” Recently, Bob Barr was being bashed just for showing up and not really on his credentials, which I admit, I don’t know anything about, but then again I am not saying I am voting for him just giving an example. I just think we need to stop thinking of someone else entering as being a “third party.” Who is to say they are the third party? Why isn’t the GOP the third party? Why not make them the 3rd party?
We all here at MM.com have a lot of opinions and most do not support McCain. A matter of fact, the supporters don’t actually seem to be supporters as much as they seem to be trying not to lose. These are the same people that told me a year and half ago that I had to vote for Rudy because he is the only one that can win. Really??? People say Bob Barr who, but I say Rudy who?
Why don’t we MM.com followers come up with a candidate. I am not and will not vote McCain and this bs about him being better than the alternative is like asking me if I want to be shot in the head or the stomach? I don’t want to be shot at all! McCain is against us on taxes, against on immigration, says he will support conservative judges but what “conservative” definition is he using, the same one the gang of whatever did, hates the first amendment and is really iffy on the Iraq war (we know he wants to stay, like forever). On top of that we have the choice of three Senators, the same bunch that hold to some (maybe) principles for 16 months they are in office and the rest they spend frolicking with each other and going to parties and participating in bipartisanship. Blthhh! You think McCain is a better choice, why, what is the proof? You don’t think he would cave to get attention and the much needed love he needs?
I don’t know, I just feel kind of queasy. Any thoughts?
Because Bobby Jindal still lacks enough time in big politics to prove himself effective and is already spoken for.
And our Beloved Hostess Michelle Malkin is not in the running.
(My apologies MM and I hope you know, I would come back just to vote for you … even if it meant moving so close to the beltway)
Why is Michelle not in the running? Maybe a reluctant candidate is who we need. And as far as I am concerned, I say we move the President’s quarters out of Washington. We hear complaining all the time about needing someone “not from Washington”. Easy fix, leave!
I like your thoughts though, how about someone else then?
Our forefathers warned us about people wanting to govern. They almost unanimously agreed that we should never trust those who wanted to be in power. Maybe we could set something up akin to the current jury system with a few more stipulations?
You up for a run Ms. Malkin? You would certainly leave no doubts about where you stand and it is likely that you may even capture Conservatives as well as many others the GOP seems to have lost or forgotten … or otherwise given up on.
Boehner’s thinking is exactly why I beleive voting for mcamnesty only reinforces the GOP plan to move more left on issues. The more we elect repub liberals, the more they believe they are onto a winning strategy. These party hacks like boehner only care about winning the election, regardless if that win comes at the expense of your party’s historical platfrom of conservatism. The GOP is no longer a friend of conservatives.
Amen to that
I had to marvel at these comments by National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Cole:
No kidding? Democrats are winning by running as conservatives?
Hey, maybe Republicans should try that. It’s such a complicated concept, it’s no wonder Republicans haven’t thought of it before. Could it be that Conservatism is the change that we seek? Perhaps more Republicans would get elected if they stopped trying to out liberal the Democrats. Just a thought…
McCain never got it.
McCain doesn’t have it.
MCCain will never get it.
If McCain wins the election, one of our next great conservatives will be someone like Olympia Snow.
If we keep accepting non-conservatives, we will always be offered non-conservatives.
I quit. I will not vote for McCain ever. Period.
I’m not registered at Hot Air, but I gotta say this: in the midst of the depressing news, Allah’s crackin’ me up. I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch Aliens the same way again. Stay away from the Elmer’s, though. We still need ya.
Michelle, all this vomiting lately is unhealthy. We need you to stick around, too. I suspect you’ll be needed for the next 4-1/2 years, at least.
If the Zubaz pants signify Hammer time, it must be one of those squeaky toy hammers.
Change we can disbelieve in. What a crummy, overwrought, hackneyed, useless buzzword. What’s going to change, we ask? Doesn’t matter, they reply. We just need change.
Ooookay, I respond while trying to maintain my own churning stomach.
Thanks, guys. Now pass me the bottle of Pepto.
John Boehner was on Cavuto a few minutes ago, promoting the GOP’s asinine change slogan. While Cavuto held his feet to the fire, Boehner looked and sounded like he was half dead. No fire, no spirit, no brains.
The Republican Party – RIP.
The change we deserve is a change in Presidential candidates for the 2008 election. 3 losers.
McCain seems of late to be out to prove that he indeed can lose this election regardless of how much Obama shoots himself in the foot and talks about 57 states and Arabic speakers in Afghanistan.This all proves that no one actually listens to Obama, they just like the sound of his soothing voice.
So McCain plans a July meeting with La Raza just to remind all of us why we will never cast a vote for him. If that’s not a sure fire loser, he’ll throw Hucklebee in for VP as the cherry on top.