Cap-and-tax 8 hypocrisy watch: Reichert’s GaGa gag

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
GOP Rep. Dave Reichert is a real piece of work.
The Republican cap-and-tax 8′er from Washington state apparently went to a GOP conference meeting this week and showed the audience a pop music parody video that substitutes Lady GaGa’s famous “Just Dance” chorus with the words “Just Tax.”
Rep. Reichert was trying to show fellow House members how to be hip and reach younger generations with the GOP anti-tax message.
“He wanted them to encourage the youth in their district, and share the message on a level that young people can relate to,” Reichert’s spokeswoman told CNN.
But what Reichert really showed was complete obliviousness to his own high-taxing ways.
He was only one of eight Republicans to vote for Obama’s massive energy tax.
He’s got a hell of a lot of nerve complaining about high taxes.
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Dave Reichert,
Lights are on, TV is running, windows are open, doors are unlocked, car is in the driveway….
Nobody is home.
TOTAL idiot.
Hey is he going to run for President? I sure hope so, that’s the kind of talent in the GOP that would make me come back and vote the Party! (heh, I think atheling just soiled himself).
Did he watch it himself?
I’ll put that on my shelf between my copies of Al Sharpton’s Guide to Improving Race Relations and Ted Kennedy’s Safe Driving Manual.
Absolutely agree about Reichert, but let’s not discourage young conservatives like Peter Cowman who happen to live in Reichert’s district.
While Reichert might be clueless and hypocritical on conservative principles, Cowman’s video wasn’t.
Granted, Peter’s not a likely contestant for American Idol, but his lyrics are clever.
Republicans who vote to raise taxes and then try to blame it on Democrats are like Democrats who use the financial crisis as an excuse to tax and spend and then try to blame the worsening crisis on Bush. It just doesn’t fly anymore.
Even Dave Reichert was the lesser of two evils when compared against Darcy Burner.
Just goes to prove that the philosophy of (s)election between the lesser of two evils is still EVIL, and is in no way an option at all…
Way to go, Dave! Did you tell them to say things like “Far Out!” and “Baaaaaaad!”, too? Better buff up those platform heels!
They need more tea party time — In there face.
Big Hammer and Anvil – it’s not the lesser of two evils, it’s the evil of two lessers.
Hear Hear! In full concurrment.
Is is grammatically correct to ask for the evil of two leasts?
This cartoon is right on target!
On July 22nd, 2009 at 3:48 pm, tre said:
That’s where the Chinese OSHA manual goes.
Well, if being hip is where it’s at fellow cool daddies, then why don’t we just dump these squaresville geezers and lame rino squishes and draft Lady GaGa herself? Seriously folks, it couldn’t be any worse. Remember how Paris Hilton came up with the best energy plan last year?
I live in the Seattle region and have had to endure Reichert for many a year. I don’t think I’m the only rightwing knuckle-dragging cro-magnon desperate to send him packing. At least with a democrat there is a chance we can mess with their minds and get them to go with us some of the time. With a rino, there is no mind to mess with. No principles either. No nothing.
Perhaps the voters in Washington can send the lad to a retirement home for oblivious clowns and unhipsters. Yes a home in the country–far away from real people and with high walls and secure gates. And remember-It is always RINO season.
The Gang of Eight of New Jersey, New York, California, Delaware and Illinois-the Land of Obama, Capone, the Black Stone Nation and too many Daly’s. And just WHY do we want to be UNITED with those states? But those eight pictures should be posted on America’s Most Wanted
Just NOW I got a call from the Republican Senatorial Committee–SEND MONEY TO STOP OBAMA. The people who make those calls are generally volunteers so I was polite. BUT I WILL SEND THE RNSC NOTHING and TWICE THAT LATER.
Dave Reichert needs to retire and LEAVE DC.
I’m thinking iced tea balloons to be thrown, dropped, or launched at any so-called Republican who votes for any of Obama’s Crappin’ Tax programs and has the temerity to speak about opposing “Tax ‘n’ Spend.” I would, of course, warn anyone involved in such actions to ensure that the iced tea balloons were fully thawed before said throwing, dropping, or launching. Liability concerns, y’know.
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. WE are the civilian national security force! “Don’t tax me, bro!” There is danger in building your forces to fight the last war or the current war. We need the F-22 and the F-35. The resistance is here; the resistance is now! RESIST!!!!!!!!
ECS
Doesn’t matter. Soon Congress will be made obsolete,
day by day, czar by czar…
From Tabitha Hale
Health reform czar;
Energy czar;
Car czar;
Urban affairs czar;
Faith-based policies czar;
Great Lakes Czar
TARP czar;
Stimulus accountability czar;
Non-proliferation czar;
Terrorism czar;
Regulatory czar;
Drug czar;
Guantanamo closure czar;
Border czar;
Information technology czar;
Pay Czar (Or “Compensation Czar”);
Middle East Czar;
Pakistan Czar;
Afghanistan Czar;
Health Choices Commission Czar (Yes, this is different from Health Reform. Don’t ask me how.);
Government Performance Czar
Would be interesting to do a data base on these czars, how many are Ivy League or former Goldeman Sachs employees.
Call me old-fashioned, but it seems like having a handful of people in Washington behave like rational, businesslike adults would stand out compared to the others. I don’t think that people who buy into skits are going to be swayed from the other side.
To the GOP, small government, low taxes and individual freedom are TALKING points, not ACTION points. We conservatives are doing much better on our own.
Go Sarah!
Non Compliant Citizens Czar
Correct Speech and Thoughts Czar
Re-education Czar
Kamp Kommander
State Security Services (cool uniforms)
Politician’s RAM memory at work again. Anything to win votes, no lie, no indiscretion, no selective memory is too much to employ in order to win over the votes of the “ignorant masses”.
Dismantling of Congress Czar
Shut Down the Constitution Czar
All Hail the Teleprompter Czar
Tar and Feather Czar
If we all bought tar and feathers for The B.O., Congress, and all the D.C. denizens, we’d spend ourselves right out of this resession.
‘cept we can’t drill for the stuff needed to make tar.
Naw he has the being “cool” thing all wrong…
to be really, really cool you have to be
a lib– that moved out of mom and dads house, and into Uncle Sam’s house, and spend your day trying to ridicule conservatives on Michelle Malkin’s site ala Alinsky Rules…now that is cool!
Reichert is out front against health care right now, I guess he couldn’t find the right deal on this one yet!
We can have a tar and feather party at LaBrea. No drilling required.