Dems To Define GOP With 'Republican-Tea Party Contract With America' (VIDEO)

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Dems To Define GOP With 'Republican-Tea Party Contract With America' (VIDEO)
Christina Bellantoni | July 28, 2010, 6:00AM



Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine today will announce a new party initiative aimed at defining the Republicans who want to win control of Congress as tea partiers who want to repeal everything and abolish federal agencies.

A Democratic official offering TPM an early preview of what Kaine would say during an 11 a.m. press conference today with members of Congress framed the push as "a preemptive strike" against the Republican plans to roll out a new "contract" with America for the fall elections.

The Democratic official insisted it's "not a gimmick or just a creative way to mock Republican ideas." The official said the point is to teach voters "what Republicans really believe and what their blueprint for governing is."

Given the new Tea Party Caucus -- and with House leaders Rep. Pete Sessions and Rep. Mike Pence on the membership roster -- the Democrats will claim that "the Tea Party is now an institutionalized part of the Republican party. They are one and the same."

The "Republican-Tea Party Contract With America" will be presented on a new DNC-run Web site with a 10-point blueprint for how the "Republican-Tea Party" would govern. Here it is:

Repeal the Affordable Care Act (Health insurance Reform)
Privatize Social Security or phase it out altogether

End Medicare as it presently exists

Extend the Bush tax breaks for the wealthy and big oil

Repeal Wall Street Reform

Protect those responsible for the oil spill and future environmental catastrophes

Abolish the Department of education

Abolish the Department of energy

Abolish the environmental protection agency

Repeal the 17th Amendment which provides for the direct election of senators

Of course, the Republican-Tea Party Contract on America is based on things Republican incumbents and candidates have proposed.

Watch the debut Web ad featuring their "one and the same" message. The Democrats may put this or something similar on television:

VIDEO at LINK http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/dems-to-define-gop-with-republican-tea-party-contract-with-america-video.php

[opihimoimoi]

1. Them Baggers gonna cringe when dey see dis

[babylonsister]

3. So will a lot of rethugs-in private, of course. nt

[Sky Masterson]

2. Oh,that's good

:applause:

[JoePhilly]

4. Good