Posted on 08/27/2007 12:35:07 PM PDT by Gopher Broke
Dear Friend,
We Did It: Keep the Pressure on Bush-backing Republicans
Today, we saw what can happen when we stand together to hold Republicans accountable.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned today because of the relentless pressure that our people-powered Democratic Majority brought to bear. We could not have done it without you. But there is no time to rest - we need to ratchet up the same kind of pressure on those Republicans who continue to obstruct our efforts to change the direction on the war in Iraq.
News is out that a group of well-funded Republicans, led by Bush's former press secretary Ari Fleischer and a group of former Bush Administration officials, is planning a massive $15 million blitz on television, radio and the Internet to shore up support for Bush's failed policy in Iraq.
We need your help to push back on this well funded pro-war campaign. Now it is more critical than ever that you help the DCCC keep the pressure on Republicans to change direction in Iraq. Last week, we told you about the DCCC's ads challenging more than a dozen Republicans for voting in lockstep with the President.
We can't let a blizzard of ads give Republican Members the political cover they want to continue rubber stamping Bush's disastrous Iraq policy and deny that we need a new direction.
Send a donation now to help keep the pressure on Bush-backing Republicans who say one thing and do another.
If you trust what they say, the 12 GOP members of Congress the DCCC has targeted with our August advertising blitz have deep reservations about the course of America's involvement in Iraq.
Four times this year, they've had the chance to break free from their rubber stamp support for George Bush's disastrous Iraq policy and, each time, they've voted in lock-step with the President.
So, we're going to keep the pressure on them right through Labor Day and our showdown with rubber stamp Republicans when they return to Washington in September.
Send a donation now to help keep the pressure on Bush-backing Republicans who say one thing and do another.
Even as you read this, the Republican Party is using the Karl Rove playbook to go after some of our Democratic candidates with lies and distortions. We're going after them twice as hard with the truth. And now, we have to confront an all-out GOP campaign to hang a "cut and run" label on anyone who dares to speak truth about Iraq.
With your immediate help, we'll build pressure on Republicans who say one thing to their constiutents but vote another way in Washington. August has already seen a rash of Republicans retirements including Denny Hastert and other former leaders of the disastrous Republican Congress. They are feeling the heat and we must keep the pressure on.
Send a donation now to keep the pressure on Bush-backing Republicans who say one thing and do another.
On Iraq and other critical issues, too many Republicans have blindly stood with the President against the wishes of their constituents and against their own better judgment.
The Republicans must join us to bring the war to an end. With your immediate help, we'll keep our ads running right through Labor Day. And we'll make more Republicans get that it's time to stop standing in lock-step with a failed President and his failed policies.
Please respond as quickly and generously as you can.
Sincerely,
Chris Van Hollen DCCC Chair
The war to them is a power grab/fund raising tool.
Traitors.
Chuckie Schumer has been using it to raise money since early July.
They must be so proud.....they supported and won a BATTLE.....against America!
LINK?
With your help, we can recreate the Iraqi Republican Guard and reincarnate Saddam so we can be losers once more...
No link. It is an email to DCCC subscribers......
I’m not so sure they’ve “won” anything. Gonzales was not a great attorney general.
Also, a witch hunt against the highest ranking Latino in govt might cost them at election time - if the GOP has the guts to play that card.
After all, most people aren’t even sure what exactly Gonzales did wrong.
shallow little cretin
The broadcast network evening newscasts, which didn’t care in 1993 about the Clinton administration’s decision to ask for the resignation of all 93 U.S. attorneys, went apoplectic Tuesday night in leading with the “controversy,” fed by the media, over the Bush administration for replacing eight U.S. attorneys in late 2006 — nearly two years after rejecting the idea of following the Clinton policy of replacing all the attorneys.
Anchor Charles Gibson promised that ABC would “look at all the angles tonight,” but he skipped the Clinton comparison. Gibson teased: “New controversy at the White House after a string of U.S. attorneys is fired under questionable circumstances. There are calls for the Attorney General to resign.”
CBS’s Katie Couric declared that “the uproar is growing tonight over the firing of eight federal prosecutors by the Justice Department” and fill-in NBC anchor Campbell Brown teased: “The Attorney General and the firestorm tonight over the controversial dismissal of several federal prosecutors. Was it political punishment?” Brown soon asserted that “it’s a story that has been brewing for weeks and it exploded today” — an explosion fueled by the news media.
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2007/cyb20070314.asp
The Rat party seems to collect alot of Republican scalps. I can’t recall the last RAT the Pubs have driven out of office. The Republicans need to ditch the new tone and learn how to handle things “the Chicago way”.
The main point of the email is:
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Even though he isn’t in the Bush Administration, Martinez will be next. It has to do with upholding federal laws. Republicans are law and order types, and Martinez and Gonzales want to pick and choose which laws to uphold, just like Jorge Bush. Since we’re coming up on an election year, I suspect the “decks are being cleared” for future action, all due from pressure by the Party’s faithful.
I realize this is an ACLU ad, which I despise by the way, but to darn funny.
http://action.aclu.org/site/PageNavigator/sheepadanimated?JServSessionIdr005=z2prja88p3.app23a
As long as ‘Pubbies lack any spine and the will to fight - as long as Bush refuses to confront of the “Politics of Personal Destruction” practiced by the Dems and takes the political war back to them, we will continue to lose men like Gonzales.
I don’t agree with everything he did, but I do believe that he caved to the pressure from the Dems and that Bush didn’t fight hard enough to keep him. Bush is actually pretty effective when he goes on the attack - problem is, he doesn’t go on the attack nearly enough. He’d rather go along to get along with the Dems, than play their own game with them and confront them.
Every ‘pubbie leader who believes that they can make allies out of the Dems by giving into them is simply kidding him(her)self and doing a terrible disservice to teh United States of America.
Well that’s two dimwit groups that lay claim so far. It’s getting to be a joke on the dims.
Right on target.
What new tone? They have been spineless for years.
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