List of Rethug political STUNTS & DIRTY TRICKS in last 5 yrs

[texpatriot2004]

tricks. As I heard Frist whine about this "stunt" pulled by the Dems I can't help but think about the closed door voting in the middle of the night, or the trick they recently pulled with the energy bill - what was that?

They have been pulling these political stunts and playing dirty pool for 5 years now. Perhaps they need a reminder.

[ewagner]

1. kept the vote open

changed votes
"closed" the vote before more could vote against it.

[Roland99]

20. Did for 3 hours on the Medicare Drug Bill

And, what, 45-50 minutes on that recent legislation? Damn, can't remember what it was now. Hell...I was watching it live and I can't remember. It was post-DeLay indictment but he was still going around "Hammering" people to change their votes.

[Greeby]

2. It's more in the House

Because they can get away with it. Under majority rule, Dems can't do anything about it.

The Energy bill fiasco, they had introduced a new rule that very morning, so they could get away with holding the vote open

[RadiDem]

3. Sennsenbrenner shut down patriot act hearing

Right in the middle on the hearings. banged his gavel and ended the meeting.

[Greeby]

4. Oh, thinking of the energy bill

Delay added an amendment which gave a billion to his corporate funders AFTER the bill had been closed to further amendment

[texpatriot2004]

5. Frist and Friends go to live interview instead of work for the

American people

[texpatriot2004]

6. Rethugs are such HYPOCRITES nm

[JDPriestly]

7. Swift Boat Liars

Concealing of Bush's true National Guard records

Executive order excusing Bush from compliance with law requiring him to release papers of previous presidents including his father.

The whole Iraq war "intelligence" fraud

[bluedawg12]

8. Presenting a Federal budget with just minutes before the session ended

and then that @ss wipe from Al-ass-ka screaming at anyone who complained.

[texpatriot2004]

9. kick it for help with this n/t

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

10. First, financed the CA recall months after a regular election

2. Redistricted TX between censuses, unpredented
3. purged the voter rolls in FL.
4. Swift boated Kerry
5. Smeared:

Paul O'Neill
Richard Clarke
John McCain
Max Cleland

6. Ohio: SOS Blackwell's stunt of sending out voter registration applications, then not accepting the very same aps because of an old law saying they must be on xx weight paper to be valid.

[No Exit]

11. Frist's unprecedented move of going personally to S.D. to

campaign against Daschle. Unprecedented, and a breach of "senate etiquette".

[No Exit]

12. Nominating Alito with ZERO input from dems. They didn't even ask

for any input. Breach of previous protocol.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

13. Easier to list non-stunts.

[No Exit]

14. Leahy was on TV right after the VP debate, and he said

that when Cheney would go to congress, he would meet exclusively with republicans. No democrats need apply.

Context: During the debate, Cheney had said he had never met and didn't know Edwards. (Sound familiar?) Leahy was asked, "Is that true?" Leahy replied (I'm paraphrasing), "Well, I can tell you that if he has met him, it certainly wasn't in congress, because when the VP comes to congress, he gathers up his republican cronies and holds closed-door meetings that democrats aren't allowed to attend."

That same evening, someone found a photo of Cheney and Edwards together at some "prayer breakfast". So much for Cheney's ability to tell the truth.

[No Exit]

15. The set-up and assassination of Dan Rather/CBS...

And, interestingly, it happened just about the time that CBS was going to present a show on the Niger forgeries...

[No Exit]

16. Phony "reporter" Jeff Gannon.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

18. & Armstrong Williams paid propagandist n/t

[Roland99]

21. And videos from Dept. of Education as news. And... >>>>

Social Security Administration members and website used to tout the Propagandist's Social Security "reform".

[No Exit]

17. Changing of the House ethics rules to protect DeLay.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

19. Rep Convention: Bandaid stunt

Everyone wearing bandaids to mock Kerry's purple heart awards.

[Catfight]

29. Jessica Lynch stunt to sell war hero's. nt

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

22. Names of bills that are the opposite of what they do

Clear Skies

(for one)

[Roland99]

23. Hiding the known cost of the Medicare Drug Bill and threatening to fire...

the man who knew what the cost was (can't remember his name.)

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

24. Changing some measurement of progress, can't recall which

exactly, thus being able to "meet" their goals.

Anyone remember what measure it was? (employment, economic growth...?)

[sofa king]

25. Locking Dems out of Energy Bill deliberations.

http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=612&Month=10&Year=2003&Party=0

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

26. Not allowing a bill to impose the same labor standards to Saipan

, Mariana Islands as apply in the rest of the nation, to even come to the House floor.

This is one of those Abramoff, DeLay things. Horrid working conditions, low pay, forced prostitution, forced abortions if they get pregnant.

DeLay praised them, said they are great examples of what the Repubs stand for, and promised to never let the bill come to a vote.

Abramoff is the lobbyist who bilked Native Americans and Saipan of loads of money.

[meow2u3]

35. Pro-life, my @$$!!!

This is one of those Abramoff, DeLay things. Horrid working conditions, low pay, forced prostitution, forced abortions if they get pregnant.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

36. Yea, right. I can't wait till this hits the news.

McCain's Native American Affairs Committee is investigating Abramoff for his ripoff of Native Americans.

Hope somebody will investigate this as well.

[texpatriot2004]

27. Thanks for helping with the list. Anything else? n.t

[texpatriot2004]

28. Middle of the night "Patriot" act. n.t

[July]

30. Mission Accomplished. Fake turkey.

Changing the wording of a bill proposed by a Democrat (so that it undercut the bill's purpose). Osama/Saddam pix in ads about Daschle and Cleland. Schiavo bill. Controlled and screened audiences everywhere. Hurricane Mulligan photo ops that delayed real work. Purple fingers. Purple Heart Band-aids. Rove and Hughes dressing in hunting gear for Halloween last year to mock Kerry's hunting trip. Sensenbrenner cutting mikes in the House. "Go fuck yourself" Cheney. Paid propagandists. Republican party jamming of GOTV phones in New Hampshire. "Snowflake babies." Stealing of Democrats' memos (for over a year). Those fucking cheesy backdrops. Cross-shaped lecterns at their convention. Etc.

[Norquist Nemesis]

31. Did anyone name Terri Schiavo yet?

They called a the Congress back for a special session to debate late into the middle of the night to try and intervene against Judges who had ruled on the matter.

[otohara]

32. Lying to Tillman's Family

about his death for months.

[ClassWarrior]

33. kick

Nice work so far, everyone... Can we get any others?

NGU.

[texpatriot2004]

34. Sen. Tom Harkin describing back door tactics used by Rethugs

Committee on Agric. Forestry...he says the committee person hits the gavel and says "we will meet when the chair says we will" and they never meet.

Talking on C-Span now (11/2/05 5:57 PM) about the Organic foods back door thing.

[0007]

37. The evidence just keeps coming in, and when it's completed

please send by registered mail to Bil Frist. "The King of Loons"

[bigbrother05]

38. The Kyoto Treaty

Raping the forrest
Clean air act
Wage act after New Orleans can't think of name
Not letting the IAEA inspectors finish their jobs

[terrya]

39. That ridiculous stunt Frist and the Republicans pulled about Bush's...

judicial nominations. Where Frist and the Republicans pulled a 48 hour whine-a-thon about how Bush's judicial nominations weren't being "voted upon"...despite the fact that 92% of them WERE voted on and confirmed. It was when Senator Reid was reading, non-stop, from his book about the history of Nevada mining, I believe it was.

That stunt of Frist's and the Republicans was one of the most childish things I've ever seen.

[Norquist Nemesis]

40. Just recalled another: The Made in the USA stickers

pasted on top of Made in China stamped on cardboard boxes. The boxes were part of the stagecraft for a speech he was giving (shortly before 9/11, IIRC)

[bluedog]

41. fake troop picture

The fake troops in Bush's new ad
by mithras the prophet
Thu Oct 28, 2004



Appropriately titled "Whatever It Takes", the new BC04 ad uses Bush's convention acceptance speech, stirring music, and images of dedicated troops and families in the heartland. As astutely noted by mikellanes in this thread:

It also uses Photoshopped images to turn a small crowd into a large one cover over Bush at a podium:

[texpatriot2004]

42. Drilling in ANWR

Despite years of control in Washington, George Bush and the Republican leadership in Congress have been unable to scare up enough support for opening the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling, so they have resorted to underhanded procedural maneuvers to give a handout to big oil at the expense of our environment and our future energy security.
From Kerry's statement on this 11/4/05

[welshTerrier2]

43. the great anthrax scare

didn't Powell hold up a little vile with powder in it at his UN dog and pony show to help us get really scared?

do i remember that correctly?

[Midnight Rambler]

44. Schiavo

Everything about that. The faux-moral grandstanding, the midnight vote, the fundie circus outside the hospice, but especially the good Dr. Frist's amazing video diagnosis.

[texpatriot2004]

45. Using the troops for staged/scripted photo op nm

[texpatriot2004]

46. Denying Oregon the right to keep roadless areas in the parks

thus allowing our parks and forests to be ruined by moneyhungry bastards