Posted on 01/27/2009 4:41:45 PM PST by markomalley
Here's what Republican leaders are up against. Right now, Barack Obama is a global marketing phenomenon, a brand much cooler than the iPhone. Catch a taxi in DC, the receipt will advertise a DVD on the new prez "the man and his journey". Turn a corner and someone will shove a card in your hand trumpeting a "Classic and Limited Edition Bronze Bust" of Obama "masterfully crafted by renowned artist".
When Dee Dee Myers asks whether Obama "is the Most Famous Living Person Ever", it's one of those questions that doesn't really need an answer. You can scoff but who else with a pulse, at a particular moment in time, has been a more as ubiquitous an icon?
Obama himself was well aware how his persona could far transcend him, though I wonder if he even dreamed he could become. His adviser David Axelrod has just recalled how, early in the campaign, Obama said: "I think the American people are ready for Barack Obama. I just hope I can be Barack Obama, or at least the Barack Obama that they want and expect."
All of which is why "nearly as many House Republicans sought to get their photos taken with Obama as questioned him about the stimulus during their meeting" today, according to one GOP aide talking to Time's Jay Newton-Small. You just know that all their kids will be squealing with joy at their parent being snapped with him.
So you can see why Republican leaders are uttering barely a word of criticism about Obama at the moment. Taking Rich Galen's advice, they're concentrating their fire on the considerably less popular Democratic leaders on the Hill, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi - arguing that it is congressional Democrats, not Republicans, who are frustrating the President's vision of bipartisanship.
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0’s crash will be dramatic.
Are you F'n kidding me???
It has already started. It started before he took office when his obnoxious "Office of The Fuhrer Elect," with official seal, no less, began issuing Proclamations.
So thus is our mission in the 2010 primaries - oust the RINOs.
Who is this kook author. There have been many very well known people that turned out to be less than desirable. As a commenter on the article thread remarked. Michael Jackson. Now there’s a sterling example of what is wrong.
The RINOS that go with Obama will be out of office.
It started when he picked the fight with Rush Limbaugh.
I talk to many (other) Republican weekly and NOne I have talked to have had any infatuation with Obama.
How many members of Congress?
Micheal Jackson and Britney Spears were famous too.
Now they’re just infamous.
January 14, 2009
Rep. LeMahieu met with 33 students from Kewaskum High School Government & Law Class at the State Capitol on January 7, 2009
Dear Constituent of the 59th: Last week when the legislature was sworn in I began my fourth term in the State Assembly. Each term has offered challenges and opportunities to serve my constituents in the 59th Assembly District.
Undoubtedly the biggest challenge this term will be the state budget deficit and the ongoing economic problems we face as a state and a nation. We can debate for days how we put ourselves in this hole but the important question to answer is how we get out of this hole.
The federal government is intent on using immense spending increases as a solution telling us that government jobs will solve our problems. I think we need to do just the opposite, take less money from the private sector and let that private sector create the jobs themselves. We need to let taxpayers keep more of their money. They can do a better job of spending that money than the government.
Wisconsin needs to do the same thing. Spend less, tax less. Some of the solutions coming from the legislative leadership (Democratic) include tax increases like the gas tax (automatic indexing), tax on sick people (hospital tax), cigarette tax, alcohol tax, increasing the sales tax.
We need to hear more discussions about what services we don’t need to provide during tough times. We don’t need state agencies asking for 10% increases in their budgets like some of them asked for. The process is doomed to fail if the cuts we start making are on agency budgets that have a 10% increase built in.
Last year campaigns from both Republicans and Democrats claimed they wouldn’t raise taxes; it just wasn’t the right thing to do in a down economy. The Democrats won the majority in both state houses. Now it is time to see if they will keep their promises.
Whether bailouts come from the state or the federal government the money comes from the same place, the pockets of the taxpayers. When families are facing layoffs, reduced hours and an uncertain future we don’t need a state government that tells them they aren’t paying enough taxes.
As long as I represent the 59th Assembly District I will not vote for a budget or a budget repair bill that increases spending at the expense of tax increases. I will continue to fight for lower taxes and smaller government during weak and strong economies.
Please share this update with your friends and neighbors within the 59th Assembly District and if there is anybody you know who would like to be included please respond to this email with their email address. In addition, you are always welcome to visit my website at www.danlemahieu.com . If you have any additional questions or concerns on this issue, or any other, please do not hesitate to contact my office. I am always happy to respond and be of service to you.
Sincerely,
Daniel LeMahieu
Wisconsin State Representative
59th Assembly District
State Capitol - Room 17 North - Post Office Box 8952 - Madison, Wisconsin 53708 (608) 266-9175 - Toll Free: (888) 534-0059 - Fax: (608) 282-3659 - Rep.LeMahieu@legis.wi.gov
www.DanLeMahieu.com
THESE PEOPLE ARE CONSERVATIVE, and we need to get these types of folks elected locally! REMOVE THE RINOS!
“Who is this kook author.”
This paper is from the UK. Their brains started to atrophy
some years ago.... Mindless fools.
“0’s crash will be dramatic.”
It can’t happen soon enough for me.
You write some of the absolutely best comments on FR. You should write them in huge red letters.
That’s what I’m thinking, but watch, it may take a while but there will an issue which creates a flashpoint and the scales will fall off people’s eyes. It’s coming. The hubris of Obama and Democrats are strongly skewing to this.
Well I know at least a couple personally (but I can guarantee 99.99999%) that all the ones I know will be voting: NO on the Bailout Part 2!
The media love having their hourly John Lennon moment:
Obama is more popular than Jesus....
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