RNC Spokeswoman: Republican Economic Platform Will Be The Bush Program, ‘Just Updated’
Source: Think Progress
RNC Spokeswoman: Republican Economic Platform Will Be The Bush Program, Just Updated
By Pat Garofalo on Apr 23, 2012 at 10:45 am
Ready for an update?
During an interview last week on The Fernando Espuelas Show, Alexandra Franceschi, Specialty Media Press Secretary of the Republican National Committee, said that the Republican partys economic platform in 2012 is going to be the same as it was during the Bush years, just updated:
ESPUELAS: What do you mean by economic security? Regardless of who the ultimate nominee is, whats the general idea that the RNC, or the Republican party in general, has in terms of this message?
FRANCESCHI: Well, its a message of being able to attain the American dream. Its less government spending, which a Tarrance Group poll, came out last week actually, shows that the majority of Hispanics believe that less government spending is the way out of this deficit crisis. Its lowering taxes so small businesses can grow and they can employ more people, because we understand that the private sector is the engine of the economy. Its not the government. [...]
ESPUELAS: Now, how different is that concept from what were the policies of the Bush administration? And the reason I ask that is because theres some analysis now that is being published talking about the Bush years being the slowest period of job creation since those statistics were created. Is this a different program or is this that program just updated?
FRANCESCHI: I think its that program, just updated.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/23/469123/rnc-spokeswoman-republican-economic-platform-will-be-the-bush-program-just-updated/
senseandsensibility
(17,108 posts)Talk about low hanging fruit.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)emulatorloo
(44,168 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Same shit, different flies.
mazzarro
(3,450 posts)That is exactly what conservatism means -- resistance to change. SSDF is an apt explanation of rePIGlican ideology and it is hilarious - my friend!
enough
(13,262 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts)..... it worked so well before.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)These sound bites are going to make great commercials to counter the Fascist/ALEC/Tea Party propaganda this fall.
eyewall
(674 posts)They cut spending on domestic programs and yet they doubled the national debt. There's never been an administration in our history that spent or borrowed as much as Bush/Cheney. Not even close.
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)It will kill the American economy.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)That is what drove the economy higher during the Bush era.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)Why am I not surprised?
baldguy
(36,649 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Back then it was a "cluster fuck."
high density
(13,397 posts)America: "Hey GOP, this proposal sounds a lot like that period under Bush when the job creation really sucked..."
GOP: "Yeah, it's that program! Wasn't that great? We need to go back there very soon."
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Ohhhhh.... you mean a war with Iran instead of Iraq to fatten up the war profiteers. Got it.
newspeak
(4,847 posts)using our money, while they announce to the american people who are hurting, they can't afford SS, education, feeding the hungry. It's starting to remind me of the cruelty, decadence of rome while they expanded their empire, using slave trade and leaving the plebes in poverty.
sakabatou
(42,170 posts)teewrex
(96 posts)wrong would think that is just great. To her Clinton is the devil incarnate and Republicans are wonderful. Facts mean nothing to her. In fact she prides herself on never reading the newspaper or watching TV news and thinks there is nothing wrong with getting all her news from what she hears on the street. As a result all we ever talk about is the weather.
LetTimmySmoke
(1,202 posts)Taylor Smite
(86 posts)and shit that had W's picture and it said "Miss me yet?" Uhh I hated those. No, dude...no one misses you. Well, the White House Librarian might miss Bush because he/she probably didnt have to do any work for 8 years.
Go ahead and say your plan is like Bush's. I double-dog dare ya.
tanyev
(42,597 posts)That photo of GWB in all his smirking arrogant idiocy seemed more like a Democratic reminder of how fortunate we are to have Obama in the White House.
eyewall
(674 posts)Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
(attributed to Albert Einstein)
Liberalman777
(35 posts)Implementing either the Bush economic plan OR Putting another Bush into Office is simply beating a Dead Horse.. The Horse being the United States OF America!
newspeak
(4,847 posts)what short term memory our fellow americans have. Remember when little boots basically turned his back on california when the governor pleaded to allow re-regulation because enron was screwing the shite out of the people? Remember when little boots allowed his predatory loan friends to go into states that had stricter regulations so they could further screw the people? Remember when little boots before the presidential election told congress ya'll better bail me out, we're in a world financial mess because of his sociopathic deregulated friends?
Oh, then there's the "catapulting of the propaganda" to start a war with Iraq. Hey, I read billions are unaccounted for from that boondoggle. I wonder where our money went. The S&L was once referred as the biggest con job in history; but I believe little boot's eight nightmarish years takes the cake. Oh, and don't forget about little boot's tax giveaway to the rich and infamous-disparity has grown between the rich and poor and labor is attempting to stay alive.
Yeah, repugs keep plugging little boot's grand scheme for the american people. I guess they just want to finish off what's left of the middle class, so we can all work in sweatshops.