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kpete

(72,010 posts)
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 08:46 PM Apr 2012

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 party’s 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, what’s the general idea that the RNC, or the Republican party in general, has in terms of this message?

FRANCESCHI: Well, it’s a message of being able to attain the American dream. It’s 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. It’s 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. It’s 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 there’s 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 it’s 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/

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RNC Spokeswoman: Republican Economic Platform Will Be The Bush Program, ‘Just Updated’ (Original Post) kpete Apr 2012 OP
Can we rely on the Dems to repeat this until people have to listen? senseandsensibility Apr 2012 #1
Some would have more credibility by no longer extending the Bush tax cuts. AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2012 #12
Trust me, media will only show the Republicans emulatorloo Apr 2012 #17
Translation Fuddnik Apr 2012 #2
Ha ha ha -- SSDF (Same Shit Different Flies) mazzarro Apr 2012 #26
Works for me, what a luscious pitch to hit. (nt) enough Apr 2012 #3
Because... sendero Apr 2012 #4
60% fault Bush and his policies for the current economic situation. Dawson Leery Apr 2012 #5
How do you get "Less govt spending" from the Bush years? eyewall Apr 2012 #6
Called the final nail plan liberal N proud Apr 2012 #7
So the GOpers want to go back to a housing bubble?? DCBob Apr 2012 #8
Conservatism is opposition to change, by definition. bluedigger Apr 2012 #9
An old bowl of spit, warmed over. baldguy Apr 2012 #10
I love how it's a "Program," now. sofa king Apr 2012 #11
Well at least they're being upfront and honest about it high density Apr 2012 #13
Yes we will just put some more on the credit card...deficits don't matter. Historic NY Apr 2012 #14
‘Just Updated’ AlbertCat Apr 2012 #15
yeah, "fatten up the war profiteers" newspeak Apr 2012 #25
And we know how that turned out sakabatou Apr 2012 #16
My mom who is a dyed in the wool repug thinks that Bush can do no teewrex Apr 2012 #18
Does the updated program end in a financial crisis like the Bush program did? LetTimmySmoke Apr 2012 #19
Remember those billboards Taylor Smite Apr 2012 #20
I didn't understand why right wingers thought that was an effective graphic. tanyev Apr 2012 #23
The definition of insanity eyewall Apr 2012 #21
I was Just about to say that But you beat me to it! Liberalman777 Apr 2012 #22
ahhh, the good old days of little boots newspeak Apr 2012 #24

mazzarro

(3,450 posts)
26. Ha ha ha -- SSDF (Same Shit Different Flies)
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 12:57 PM
Apr 2012

That is exactly what conservatism means -- resistance to change. SSDF is an apt explanation of rePIGlican ideology and it is hilarious - my friend!

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
5. 60% fault Bush and his policies for the current economic situation.
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 09:23 PM
Apr 2012

These sound bites are going to make great commercials to counter the Fascist/ALEC/Tea Party propaganda this fall.

eyewall

(674 posts)
6. How do you get "Less govt spending" from the Bush years?
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 09:24 PM
Apr 2012

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.

DCBob

(24,689 posts)
8. So the GOpers want to go back to a housing bubble??
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 09:26 PM
Apr 2012

That is what drove the economy higher during the Bush era.

high density

(13,397 posts)
13. Well at least they're being upfront and honest about it
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 10:02 PM
Apr 2012

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."

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
15. ‘Just Updated’
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 10:29 PM
Apr 2012

Ohhhhh.... you mean a war with Iran instead of Iraq to fatten up the war profiteers. Got it.

newspeak

(4,847 posts)
25. yeah, "fatten up the war profiteers"
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 10:43 AM
Apr 2012

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.

teewrex

(96 posts)
18. My mom who is a dyed in the wool repug thinks that Bush can do no
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 12:29 AM
Apr 2012

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.

 

Taylor Smite

(86 posts)
20. Remember those billboards
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 02:19 AM
Apr 2012

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)
23. I didn't understand why right wingers thought that was an effective graphic.
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 08:30 AM
Apr 2012

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)
21. The definition of insanity
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 02:38 AM
Apr 2012

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

(attributed to Albert Einstein)

Liberalman777

(35 posts)
22. I was Just about to say that But you beat me to it!
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 07:16 AM
Apr 2012

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)
24. ahhh, the good old days of little boots
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 10:24 AM
Apr 2012

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.

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