Just days after President Obama called for bi-partisanship at his state of the union address and at the House Republican retreat, the Democratic Governor's Association sent out today this highly partisan and offensive fundraising email to its supporters:
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Ordinary citizens groups (fueled to a great extent by independents) organizing and showing their displeasure with runaway spending and deficits are engaging in hysteria? To suggest that electing reformed minded, conservative governors will result in secessionist movements is ridiculous and extreme hyperbole. This assessment by the DGA clearly shows that big government types simply don't understand the movement. Tea partiers (not tea baggers) aren't interested in leaving this union they love, they are more interested in SAVING the union by 'throwing the bums out' and taking back their government and country.
The spin coming lately from the Democratic talking heads and operatives is astonishing. It reminds me of the old drug dealers creed: 'Never get high on your own supply." Their spin seems to go beyond simply a tactic to frame a bad issue or situation to their advantage, they actually seem to believe their spin. How else to explain their belief (and new tactic) that forcing Republicans to choose between saving the TARP money and paying down the deficit (what they are lawfully mandated to do) and using it instead to 'create jobs' is a winning message for them. On paper, this looks like a winning box to put the Republicans in, but a closer looks proves otherwise.
According to this Pew Research survey, the economy and jobs are the number one and two issues concerning Americans, with defit reduction coming in at number seven. So this is good strategy by the Dems right? It would be if the nearly $800 billion spent last year had resulted in job creation. Instead, the unemployment rate has risen higher with some economists predicting a further rise in the rate later this year. It's like the gambling addict trying win back the mortgage payment he gambled away by getting cash advances on his credit card and hoping this time his luck will turn. It will be a tough sell to advocate spending $30 billion more on 'job creation' now that the $787 billion stimulus bill passed last year has proven to be such a miserable failure.
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teabaggers, a term based on the framing and phraseology of the movement's own originators and Fox News promotional campaigns, are not fueled by "independents."
Teabaggers are Republicans, frustrated at their favored party's own well-earned loss of power. The Democrats could be doing more to turn the economy around and foster job-creation. But the teabagger movement are almost to a person partisan far-right conservatives curiously silent during the free-spending Bush era. They do not represent a mainstream view in any way at all.
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