Dems Seize On Cantor’s Vow To Tea Partiers

[babylonsister]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care/dems-seize-on-cantors-vow-to-tea-partiers/

Dems Seize On Cantor’s Vow To Tea Partiers


Dems are seizing on Eric Cantor’s pledge to the tea party rally yesterday that no GOPers will back the health care bill, hoping to use it to put moderate GOPers on the spot by casting a No vote as doing the bidding of extremists.

The DCCC, looking to elevate the nastiest side of yesterday’s festivities, is circulating among reporters some of the uglier imagery seen on signs in the crowd.

Dems have now blasted a release to local press in a dozen GOP districts, demanding that individual House Republicans say whether they agree with promise to “the extremist ‘tea party’ activists that not one Republican will vote for health insurance reform.” Yesterday, Cantor told the tea party crowd: “We are committed to making sure that not one Republican will vote for this bill.”

Dems say they are pushing local press to put GOP moderates such as Mary Bono Mack of California and Joseph Cao of Louisiana on the spot by asking them if they will honor Cantor’s pledge to the tea partiers.

Obviously, this is unlikely to change the votes of any of these GOPers, and in any case, the GOP vote isn’t important to the outcome of the final vote on the health care bill, which is now in doubt because of Dem defections.

But this shows Dems are intent on using yesterday’s festivities to bolster the Dems’ larger long-term strategy: To use the most lurid tea party antics and imagery to drive a wedge between moderates and conservatives, to staunch defections among independents, and to define the GOP as hostage to extreme elements in hopes of limiting Dem losses in 2010.

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Update: Post revised slightly from original.

Update II: Cantor’s office responds that he has called on the GOP to be more inclusive. “The Republican Party in its roots is a party of inclusion and we ought to be promoting that and making sure that voices are heard,” he said in an recent interview, adding that he doesn’t condone use of Hitler in any discussion of politics.

[aquart]

1. Sounds like fun.

[Hekate]

2. "Lurid" is the right word, or one of them. But as to Eric Cantor being there...

... standing in solidarity (presumably) with the idiot holding the Dachau photo: his is a Jewish name. I know in America that doesn't necessarily mean anything, for all I know he could be Episcopalian, but for the love of all that's holy :wtf: At least Joe Lieberman was not there.

Hekate

[tularetom]

3. The toothpaste is out of the tube and Cantor's scared he can't put it back

There were a lot of anti Semitic references among the signs carried by the dick army at Congress yesterday. References to the Rothschilds and the holocaust. It's plain that these folks are very mistrustful of anybody except white anglo saxon protestants (of middle and working class status preferably) and that they don't have any great fondness for people of the Jewish persuasion. Unfortunately for Mr Cantor and others, it's a bit too late. He's part of the global conspiracy and it appears that his buds like Bachman and even Boner are OK with that.

Tough shit Cantor ya little weasel. When you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas. Or maybe the dogs just shit on you.

[opihimoimoi]

4. The asshole is already infected with GOPia,,,unable to think, feel, with EMPATHY

[jaysunb]

5. "attempt to limit 5em losses in 2010"

I didn't know that we were destined to lose...