Politics, who can you believe?

UniBrier · August 22, 2006, 3:53pm

Somehow I ended up on the e-mailing list for both the R’s and the D’s. I got two today already:

This morning James Carville sent me this:

Dear Steven,

As the end of summer approaches, there are some things you can count on. The air will get cooler, the leaves will start changing, and Republican attacks will get ugly. A couple of months ago, we told you that the Republican dirty tricks were coming. Well, they’ve arrived.

The same “swift boaters” who went after John Kerry have turned their sights on Democrats yet again, attacking Jack Murtha. Right-wing leader James Dobson and the rest of the band of not-so-merry right-wing men are going to do everything they can to amp up the Republican base. And you can bet your sweet you-know-what that they are looking for new, even uglier ways to suppress votes.

A year ago, Republicans were counting on a different Democratic Party - a Party that would let attacks go unanswered, that would roll over and let them have their say… and let them have their way. Not anymore.

You can always tell how worried the Republican Party is by looking at how deeply they start caring - and by that we mean scaring – their base. They’re pinning all their hopes on out-gunning us in the closing months with their right-wing slime machine.

Last time around we saw what Rove and right-wingers can do to turn out the GOP vote. Let’s admit it - it’s formidable. And this year we expect nothing less.

But we’ve got something pretty formidable, too. With the launch of the 2006 Voter Turnout Fund, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is making sure that we match the Republicans blow for blow and voter for voter. The money raised for the fund will go exclusively towards financing the most robust, sophisticated get-out-the-vote program ever executed for a midterm election.

All of our work and dedication over the past two years means nothing if we can’t get the voters to the polls. The DCCC has told us they need $250,000 by August 31st in order to keep pace with the Republican operation. This is your chance to make sure we win this final battle on the ground, in the trenches.

Beat Rove at His Own Game: Contribute $35, $50 or more to the DCCC Voter Turnout Fund.

Here’s where your contribution to the Voter Turnout Fund will go:
Legal teams in every district ready to fly to protect the rights of each and every American as the Republicans work to keep voters away from the ballot box.

Micro-targeted precision mail programs identifying swing voters and strong Democrats who otherwise might not make it to the polls, exposing their local Republican’s rubber stamp record and explaining the Democrat’s new direction – making sure no stone is left unturned in motivating voters.

Forty thousand volunteers and field operatives who will make two million phone calls to the voters who can make the difference and put our candidates over the top.

In at least 50 Congressional districts they will coordinate local volunteers to knock on an average of 25,000 doors per district.

This grassroots mobilization is unprecedented in a midterm election - but that’s what it’s going to take to win.

The American people are ready for a new direction. We’ve got the candidates who can provide that new direction, but for that to happen, we need to provide them the votes to win. The best thing you can do today to make a difference in this election is to make a contribution to the Voter Turnout Fund.

Beat Rove at His Own Game: Contribute $35, $50 or more to the DCCC Voter Turnout Fund.

With all their scandals, corruption, and failed policies, Republicans are trying to hide from the voters, and hide from their records. The DCCC won’t let them.

The DCCC is putting ads up on the air right now to drive home to every last voter the truth about the reckless and power-hungry Republican Party. Then, using the money raised for the DCCC’s Voter Turnout Fund, the Democratic ground operation will kick in and they’ll do everything under the sun to make sure voters get to the polls and vote for change.

If we can get the DCCC the resources they need, they won’t let us down. The work of the last two years will not be squandered, and the Republican Party will finally have a long overdue rendezvous with their record.

Beat Rove at His Own Game: Contribute $35, $50 or more to the DCCC Voter Turnout Fund.

We’re supporting the Voter Turnout Fund, and hope you will too. It could make all the difference in taking our country in a new direction this November. We’ll run those b-rate cowboys running our country into a ditch and out of town in November!

Let’s go get 'em,

And then later Elizabeth Dole sent me this:

Liberal Democrats intend to take over the U.S. House and Senate this November and launch irresponsible, vengeful, investigations into the Bush Administration.

And I need your urgent help to stop them!

Right now, click here to make an emergency online contribution to the National Republican Senatorial Committee to help us protect our increasingly vulnerable Republican Senate Majority, as well as the Bush Presidency.

Every day, the liberal Democrats’ intent to regain control of Congress and impeach President Bush grows clearer.

First, [House Democrat Minority Leader Nancy] Pelosi vowed “to use the power to investigate” the administration on multiple fronts…

…Then Democrats assembled a powerful impeachment coalition of over 100 liberal organizations, including an entire PAC whose sole mission is to back Democrat candidates who support the impeachment of President Bush.

Now, Congressman John Conyers, who has led the movement to impeach President Bush, has released his new “investigative report” on the Bush Administration: “The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-ups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Surveillance.”

My friend, as you can imagine, Conyers’s report is nothing more than a detailed roadmap for the impeachment of President Bush, ready for use should the Democrats win control of Congress this fall.

Under no circumstances can we allow that to happen to our Party, our nation or our President.

That’s why I’m reaching out for your help today.

We need to act now to stop the liberal Democrats from gaining control of the Senate, and the power to take over the entire federal government, including the White House!

Please click here to donate $50, $75, $100, $250 or $500 to the NRSC today!

Your urgently-needed donation will help us provide our Republican candidates, who are fighting for everything from tax cuts to strengthening border security, with the essential resources and funding they need to fight the Democrat onslaught and retain control of the Senate.

Nothing is more important than this.

If we stand on the sidelines and give liberal Democrats control of the Senate this fall, they will not only do whatever it takes to humiliate, and ultimately destroy President Bush and his Administration …

…They will quickly move to defeat our entire conservative agenda and saddle you and me with unending tax hikes, irresponsible cut-and-run policies in Iraq, government-mandated health care and much worse!

That is why responding to the NRSC’s immediate call to action is so necessary and important.

Whatever amount of money you can give to help fund the NRSC’s 2006 campaign warchest and protect our Republican Majority this November is truly needed and gratefully received.

But considering that John Conyers has already outlined a detailed plan for the impeachment of our President … and liberals like Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton could soon be calling the shots in the Senate, moving to annihilate every initiative you and I have worked and fought to achieve together over the last 12 years…

…I sincerely hope you will give as generously as you possibly can to the NRSC today.

Thank you for helping the NRSC and our team of outstanding Republican candidates defend our critical Republican Majority in the upcoming 2006 elections.

With my warmest best wishes,

PROTECT OUR MAJORITY AND OUR PRESIDENT!

The Democrats’ “roadmap” for 2006 is clear: take the House and Senate, and impeach the President.

With our nation at war, President Bush’s tax cuts set to expire and illegal immigration at all all-time high, is this really the kind of Congress you want?

If your answer is a resounding “NO”, please make an urgent online contribution to help the NRSC protect and preserve our crucial Republican Senate Majority!

Please click here to donate $50, $75, $100, $250 or $500 to the NRSC immediately. Thank you.

Should I just send them both money and hope they go away?

habbywall · August 22, 2006, 4:01pm

Say, I’m disenqlined to aques your request, I don’t know how it’s spelled, but it was in the first Pirates of The Caribean.

UniBrier · August 22, 2006, 4:08pm

What, you don’t have a word processor with spell check on your computer?

Disinclined to acquiesce to your request.

johnfoss · August 22, 2006, 5:55pm

Wow, those Republicans sure seem worried about their President being investigated… he must have something to hide.

Yes I know investigations of that nature are ugly, and will take energy away from doing more useful things. Let’s see. How useful could the money we’re spending on Iraq be elsewhere? How much is it costing us, per day, to watch the poor Iraqis slide into a civil war? No, I don’t want a civil war in Iraq either, but how many resources should we be willing to commit to that project? And if you’re connected to oil companies (big investors) or war contractors, you’re not allowed to answer.

As for who do you believe? Anyone without an agenda. If you can find such a person…

harper · August 22, 2006, 9:09pm

I am that person. I have no agenda. Trust me and I will show you the one, true path. The initial investment is quite managable. I don’t like words such as small. They cheapen my pitch.

bugman · August 22, 2006, 9:57pm

I am sure that I was hypnotised by your Avatar. Where do I send the check?

squirrel · August 22, 2006, 10:41pm

ahhhh…at least we can see common ground, both emails ask for $$$$$$

Who can you believe? no one who is asking you for money

hell-on-wheel · August 23, 2006, 5:17am

For a second there I thought it was Donald Rumsfeld talking.

I’m speechless.

BillyTheMountain · August 23, 2006, 5:21am

Greg,

I was gonna say that! You and me are just the same.

I hope Raphael doesn’t start making something of it.

By the way, did anyone see the full page ad on A8 ( I think) of yesterday’s NYTimes? It was a letter to Bush, very diplomatically worded, from an organization in Kuwait (remember when the USA used Kuwait to bomb Iraq?), gently suggesting there was a big problem. It had lots of photos of dead and wounded Lebanese.

leo · August 23, 2006, 5:31am

Maybe not related to the first post, but the topic-title reminds me to a politician in The Netherlands who admitted without any shame to “consult protistutes”.

For some reason I trust politicians like that earlier than those who keep denieng.

Of course his party dropped him out, he replied with “yes, I’m only person in the country who’s visiting prostitutes”.

JJuggle · August 23, 2006, 5:35am

Yes, Billy.

You are to Greg as roquefort is to mild cheddar.

Greg is to you as Woody Allen is to Gilbert Gottfried.

bugman · August 23, 2006, 6:07am

I would have said Harper is to Billy as Einstien is to Ivan Pavlov.

harper · August 23, 2006, 8:29am

Billy is to me as a match is to tinder.
I am to Billy as gasoline is to fire.

Were JC not the only main man possible, Billy would be my main man (if Raphael let him out to play.)

BillyTheMountain · August 23, 2006, 8:40am

I get it!

Harper is to bugman as Einstien is to Paul Muller

Harper is to Raphael as Einstien is to Mary Jane Scherdin

I get it! I get it!

Raphael is to bugman as a fine French Brie is to Wisconsin cheddar!

BillyTheMountain · August 23, 2006, 8:43am

JC is to The kingdom of God as Billy is to Just Conversation.

BluntRM · August 23, 2006, 8:56am

Just buy the SUV and support everybody.

maestro8 · August 23, 2006, 10:19am

…and the Democrats seem worried about the Republicans. It seems everyone is out with their smear campaigns, but no one talks issues anymore… barely a couple sentences about taxes, immigration, war, nothing important like education, healthcare or welfare… we got a bunch of pantywaists in Washington! Can we press the “reset” button on our Gov’t and start over?

underdog · August 23, 2006, 10:26am

How can you tell if a politician is lying?

His lips are moving.

BTW. If Harper is the man without an agenda I suggest that we start a write in campaign; Harper for President.

harper · August 23, 2006, 12:03pm

I voted for myself when I was first eligible to become president which was in the 1988 election. I think I lost. Had I won and thought I lost I’m sure we would be in a better world today.

BillyTheMountain · August 23, 2006, 12:31pm

Nice that at least Carville called you by name…

UniBrier:

Somehow I ended up on the e-mailing list for both the R’s and the D’s. I got two today already:

This morning James Carville sent me this:

Dear Steven,

Here’s where your contribution to the Voter Turnout Fund will go:
Legal teams in every district ready to fly to protect the rights of each and every American as the Republicans work to keep voters away from the ballot box.

And then later Elizabeth Dole sent me this:

Quote:
Liberal Democrats intend to take over the U.S. House and Senate this November and launch irresponsible, vengeful, investigations into the Bush Administration.

Every day, the liberal Democrats’ intent to regain control of Congress and impeach President Bush grows clearer.

First, [House Democrat Minority Leader Nancy] Pelosi vowed “to use the power to investigate” the administration on multiple fronts…

…Then Democrats assembled a powerful impeachment coalition of over 100 liberal organizations, including an entire PAC whose sole mission is to back Democrat candidates who support the impeachment of President Bush.

Now, Congressman John Conyers, who has led the movement to impeach President Bush, has released his new “investigative report” on the Bush Administration: “The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-ups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Surveillance.”

PROTECT OUR MAJORITY AND OUR PRESIDENT!
With our nation at war, President Bush’s tax cuts set to expire and illegal immigration at all all-time high, is this really the kind of Congress you want?

Should I just send them both money and hope they go away?

I cut away all the non-content for you. There isn’t really much content to either letter. The Dems must assume you know their agenda, because it’s not stated anywhere.

The Repubs only hint at their agenda: Keep up the war, more tax cuts for the very wealthy, and more money to private police and prisons for illegal immigration (courtesy of the middle class). I bolded it for you above