A nifty demonstration of Democratic fiscal management

HotAir.com ^ | 11/13/08 | Ed Morrissey

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Those of us on Barack Obama mailing lists have wondered why the masters of fundraising haven’t stopped pushing for more donations. After all, Obama won … last week. Recounts won’t affect the substantial victory; this isn’t 2000. Yet we keep getting e-mails, supposedly from people like Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, and especially David Plouffe, telling us that Obama and the DNC desperately need more of our money — and Andrew Malcolm does the math. He reprints the missive from Plouffe:

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Here’s what he said:

“We’ll get to work transforming this country. But first, we need to take care of the DNC.”

Did we hear that right? Now that Obama’s the president-elect, the top priority is the Democratic National Committee?

To drive home the point elsewhere in the same e-mail Plouffe adds: “Before we do anything else, we need to pay for this winning strategy.”

Don’t worry, you still get the Victory T-shirt for this $30. But it sounds like pretty much everything else is on hold. This change stuff is looking to be an expensive process, even before it gets started.

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The DNC raised $100 million dollars on top of the $600+ million raised by Obama. The latter was a record-breaking number, and the DNC’s wasn’t too bad, either. Instead of simply spending what they raised, though, Howard Dean took out massive loans that left the Democrats in the red by $15 million.

In government, we call that deficit spending, something Democrats decried during the 2006 elections. And who gets to pay for all the overspending and fiscal mismanagement? The contributors who already coughed up record amounts of money for Hope and Change, that’s who. And the new administration will hold the Hope and Change hostage until it gets all of the loose change possible first, Plouffe tells us.

In a way, this is truth in advertising. The Democrats have given us a clear example of how they will govern for at least the next two years. In fact, we may all wind up wearing shirts that say, “The government took all of my wealth, and all they shared was this lousy T-shirt.”

[OpusatFR]

Let’s send them monopoly money. I have the new game with billion buck notes.

[EagleUSA]

“We’ll get to work transforming this country. But first, we need to take care of the DNC.”
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This statement is indicative of the coming radical socialist agenda....we simply know these radicals too well.

[RC2]

They just found an easy way to get money from people. Many people will send them their hard earned cash and never ask questions. Mean while, Democrats will increase their salaries until the free money stops coming in. People will fall for it, count on it.

[SERKIT]

Let’s send them monopoly money. I have the new game with billion buck notes.

Better yet, use your American Express card, default on the card, then the Federal government will TARP it, pay it, and pipe even more bucks to the Dems, on top of what they already get via ACORN. In other words, we're all paying it anyway.

The monopoly money needs to have some cool portraits on it. Start with Omarosa-Michelle, Barry, Plugs, Rahm, Madame Albright, etc.

[beachn4fun]

Tell DNC to apply to Congress as a failed and struggling company so that they can get on-board with the Democrat bailout!

p.s. poor DNC they worked so hard to get those liberals elected and Obama raised more money than they did. boo hoo

[Logical me]

Nothing now will stop this machine from still asking for money. And the sad part is millions of ignorant Americans will sent it. Sad!

[SwinneySwitch]

The monopoly money needs to have some cool portraits on it. Start with Omarosa-Michelle, Barry, Plugs, Rahm, Madame Albright, etc.

Start with the Nada Peso idea:

[listenhillary]

I doubt many will send money after they’ve opened up their retirement statements.

[Jerry_in_Illinois]

It’s worse than you think..

These weasels want to bank even more money to set up permanent offices in battleground states. They are already planning for 2010 elections and planning PR campaigns to ease the way for Obama’s lefty agenda.

[Clioman]

“Let’s send them monopoly money. I have the new game with billion buck notes.”

Kewl! Is that the new Zimbabwe edition?

[oyez]

All that money Obama raised from all kind of sources won't be questioned, but John McCain raised and spent much less cash yet stands to be investigated.

The message is clear. "Oppose Obama and the Democrats and be hammered for you effort."

We are standing in the door of a one party system.