GOP argument: Don't give President Obama a blank check

[Mark E. Smith]

Source: CNN.com

A new Republican ad appears to suggest that Barack Obama has all but won the presidential race, an argument several vulnerable Senate Republicans may have to reluctantly embrace with only days until Election Day, an expert in campaign advertising said.

Aimed at Kay Hagan, Sen. Elizabeth Dole's surprisingly strong Democratic challenger in North Carolina, the 30-second spot from the National Republican Senatorial Committee warns voters against Democrats holding the White House and Congress, and flatly states that if Hagen wins, the party will get a "blank check."

"These liberals want complete control of government ina time of crisis, a;; branches of government," the ad's narrator states. "No check and balances, no debate, no independence. That's the truth behind Kay Hagan. If she wins, they get a blank check."



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/23/obama.check/index.html#cnnSTCText

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Now ain't that something. McCain runs against Bush, and a-skeered GOP Senators now run against McCain. Wacky.

[Historic NY]

1. why not *had credit cards w/o limits.

[Eric J in MN]

2. Kay Hagan, not Jay Hagan. NT

NT

[Mark E. Smith]

5. Oops. J is next to K

Fixed it.

[louis-t]

3. A blank check like your hero

stupidface bush has had for 8 years? No accountability? No oversight? No law too big to break?

[Lint Head]

4. Please give Obama anything he wants ASAP!

We can actually trust him. He will be a good steward of our precious country. :dem:

[Turbineguy]

6. Oversight.

Something Obama need not fear.

[WiMu]

7. They're just now realizing

That all the rules they changed in the past decade to benefit themselves will now be in the hands of the Democrats. And they are scared!

[wordpix]

14. EXACTLY. See where your "signing statements" get you now, asshats

[bluestateguy]

8. We've got them on the run now

NO OVERSIGHT!!!

BILLS WHIZZING THROUGH CONGRESS!!!

RUBBER STAMP!

NO INVESTIGATIONS!!

NO INDEPENDENT COUNSELS!!!!!

AND ALL OF THOSE PRESIDENTIAL POWERS THAT BUSH FOUGHT SO HARD TO GET, WILL NOW BELONG TO OBAMA!!!

Happy Halloween, Republicans!

:rofl:

:rofl:

[mreilly]

9. I love it!

For eight years they've held the White House.

For six years they held Congress (and have spent the last two running around being obstructionist little assholes trying to block anything that remotely resembles progress)

They own the Supreme Court.

And yet now the Republiturds are starting to rail against "one party government", shitting their drawers over the upcoming take-back of the White House and Congress by the Democrats.

Only NOW is it a problem. Only NOW is it unfair. Only NOW are they concerned about democracy (which is hilarious because democracy is exactly what is sweeping the sorry little GOP asses out the door next month).

It's the same in my state (Massachusetts). Republifuckers are 13% of the population here (and as far as I'm concerned that 13% can just get the fuck out of here and move someplace else. I don't want their tax revenue going to my state: I want them gone). Democrats control Beacon Hill in Boston and Governor Deval Patrick also has a D after his name, so of course the Republicraps just bellow endlessly about how it's so horrible they don't have representation, the Demmiecrat party has a monopoly, there's no checks and balances, etc. etc. All the while they never breathed a word about what was going on in Washington since 2000.

I stopped being amazed by Republishit hypocrisy years ago. These people will literally say anything one second and then something completely the opposite the next - and not only that, will shriek and curse and fling their own feces at you for being a liberal elitist if you dare to point that out.

"Don't give Obama a blank check?" No, no: fuck you, Repukes. Sit down, and shut the hell up. Nobody cares what you want. Nobody gives a crap what you think. You've ruined the economy. You've bankrupted the treasury. You've destroyed our standing abroad. You've killed dozens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of people. Republicanism is a disease; a cancer of the economy, of the culture, of the brain, of the soul.

And these worthless pieces of shit have the nerve to whine about "socialism!"

[machI]

10. Republicans speak from experience: 'See what happened when we gave Bush a blank check!'

[unkachuck]

11. "No check and balances, no debate, no independence."....walmart might be hiring....n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

12. Ahhhh......

When they start looking down-ticket to see what they can salvage, life is good.

So, what will tomorrow's failed McStunt be?

[wordpix]

15. McFlalin will think of something - fly to Iraq to let us know again how safe it is, maybe?

[BearSquirrel2]

13. Yes, the pres race is effectively over ...

Obama has 7 point leads in both Virginia and Colorado and $150,000,000. He can blanket those states with ads in the next couple weeks and past that, nothing else matters. McCain needs ALL the battleground states. Obama needs only one.

The real race at this time is for Senator and Governor's offices. The GOP should be very worried about their voters staying home at this point in frustration.

[olddad56]

16. Because of the GOP (Government Oppression Program), any check he gets will bounce.

[Waiting For Everyman]

17. The Rethug morons always get frugal when they're out.

Screw them! That line has been floated by them ever since Lyndon Johnson. Guns or butter. We can somehow magically afford their agenda for the rich, but we can never seem to afford everyone else's agenda. They didn't think about the deficit for 8 years, they don't need to start worrying overtime now. Their "concern" is noted. :sarcasm:

Dems across the board would get change done faster, and we need change fast. No one really believes the Rethugs are going to contribute any worthwhile ideas to the effort anyway. Their "input" is always the same - deregulate, privatize, cut taxes on the rich. BTDT.

[onager]

18. Some of us remember Bush's 2004 blank check.

A check written against that "landslide" (HA!) 2004 election.

Remember this? "I have political capital and I intend to spend it."

Yep, then he spent all that political capital trying to privatize Social Security. Remember him hopping all over the USA like a meth-fueled Energizer Bunny, promising how great it would be when Wall Street and the markets controlled Joe Sixpack's retirement money?

After that debacle he had about $1.98 of political capital left. The 2006 elections took care of that for him.

[struggle4progress]

19. Translation: Dole hasn't accomplished diddly-squat

[LanternWaste]

20. The irony that a Republican would say that about a Dem...

"No check and balances, no debate, no independence..."

The irony that a Republican would say that about a Dem-- after these past eight years of a Republican monopoly on the federal government is absurd to the point of a farcical comedy.

[zelta gaisma]

21. you have to say one thing for the republicans....

they have a HUGE set of brass balls and an even bigger STEAMING PILE of hypocrisy and they aren't afraid to show it!!

[Alter Ego]

22. Whinypants. They had no problem with a COMPLETELY Republican government

for years. Now that the Democrats are poised to take it all back, they're desperately grasping at straws for reasons why they shouldn't.

[humbled_opinion]

23. WHAT?

The argument is idiotic.. So Bush had Rubber stamp congress in which he totally destroyed America and these people suggest that it is the other side of the aisle that is to blame? The logic is strange... How about... You had your chance and you screwed the country both financially and morally... now give the Democratic representatives a chance and they can both repair what you have destroyed and make things better for EVERYONE INCLUSIVE...

With Republicans its a Control issue always has been. They fear the loss of control. Good Riddance.