New gop talking point: Democrats are arrogant

[babylonsister]

Sound familiar? Not very original, are they.


Republicans Plot Their Health Care Attack Strategy
By Karen Tumulty / Washington Monday, Nov. 23, 2009


The Senate's first day of debate on sweeping legislation to overhaul the health-care system produced a squeaker of a vote — exactly the 60 that majority leader Harry Reid needed to overcome a threatened Republican filibuster that could have blocked him from even bringing the bill to the floor. But it also gave a clear picture of the Republican messaging strategy as the legislation moves forward into what promises to be weeks of tendentious debate after the Thanksgiving recess. The minority intends to launch a series of surgical strikes on key parts of the bill, and to raise questions about whether it all adds up to what the Democrats are claiming.

What they are counting on now, and what they are hoping to inflame, is public doubt. Over and over again on Saturday, Republicans mentioned a new Quinnipiac poll indicating that while a healthy majority of Americans — 61% — are eager to see major changes in the health system, only 1 in 5 believes President Obama when he says that he can do it without raising their taxes. What the GOP Senators failed to note was that the same poll showed 59% faulting the Republican Party for not working in good faith with the Democrats to produce a bill.

Judging from the rhetoric in the first day of debate, it would appear that one word is testing well in internal Republican focus groups: "arrogant," which is how they repeatedly described the Democratic approach. On Sunday, minority leader Mitch McConnell was at it again, telling CNN that he does not believe Democratic moderates will allow the bill to pass without significant changes: "I believe there are a number of Democratic Senators who do care what the American people think and are not interested in this sort of arrogant approach that everybody sort of shut up and sit down, get out of the way, we know what's best for you."

But the truth is, now that the bill is on the Senate floor, it will be very difficult for anyone to make any significant changes, unless they can muster 60 votes for them. Although there will be a number of skirmishes — over abortion funding, illegal immigrants' access to the new insurance marketplace, a government-run public option and whether to help pay for the whole enterprise by raising taxes on the rich or taxing high-end, so-called Cadillac insurance plans, just to name a few — everyone knows that the real test will be the moment, weeks from now, when Reid attempts to shut down debate and bring the measure to a final vote.


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http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1942128,00.html

[NewJeffCT]

1. More Republican projection

They seem to be experts at it.

[patrice]

2. THE classic response of the weak and insecure, but then what can you expect from folk who

NEED others to tell them that they are doing the right thing. These people are ALL about dependence on others for value judgements, thoughts, creativity, vision. They CAN'T do it themselves, hence, their feelings of inadequacy every time someone who knows something opens their mouths and, of course, their own inadequacies and short-comings are caused by all of those "arrogant" others.

These people are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo the opposite of anything they claim to be.

[JaneQPublic]

3. One minute they're blasting Obama for bowing, the next they're calling him arrogant.

They can't have it both ways, but they certainly try to.

[patrice]

4. The truly strong and competent do not even perceive arrogance.

Every time anyone hears that accusation "you are arrogant" it should be regarded at least hypothetically as PROOF of the accuser's own weakness and dependence. It's the same thing as saying "I don't know anything" and one should proceed with that awareness first.

[patrice]

5. Or IF they do perceive it, they regard it as error.

[amb123]

6. If Dems are arrogant, then we are amateurs

compared to the GOPigs.

:rant:

[LynneSin]

7. "Democrats are arrogant" is their way of saying "Democrats will use their brains and think"

After watching 3 minutes of that video where the folks waiting to get a signed book from Sarah Palin (I couldn't last the whole 8 minutes it was so painful) - I realize that the desired people the GOP want are those that accept things without thinking. How else can you explain these people protesting against a healthcare reform that will actually BENEFIT them or supporting Tax Cuts that will only affect the top 2% of americans?

The GOP supporters are the sheep that George Orwell wrote about so many years ago in "Animal Farm". THey just wait for the pigs to give them the message they are to repeat and then they go to work - the never question that mesage because they assume if the Pigs tell it to them it must be true.

[euphoria12leo]

8. A Republican Senator

on C-Span Sunday was asked why the Republicans did not vote for the bill to move forward for debate. He said the Democrats have written an arrogant bill. So I knew this would be the new talking point. Next up, Sarah Palin because she will repeat anything that's put in front of her. Women can't help but be proud of her. :sarcasm: Why are Republicans always trying to predict what Democrats will do? Republicans don't want to think for themselves. They don't think about their constituents. But they want to think for members of the Democratic party. Hint, hint to moderates from McConnell don't vote for the bill to pass. And I don't know what the heck they are thinking.


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