Not a Contract with America, but a Contract on Obama

[babylonsister]

Excuse the source, but that line in the heading says it all...

Jake Sherman


CLEVELAND — John Boehner is clearly laying his marker for what Republicans think will propel them into the House majority in November.

Not a Contract with America, but a Contract on Obama. A continuous battering of the president’s advisers, policies and legacy. A recital of every Democratic misstep, misstatement and miscue of the past 20 months. An attack strategy that is thus far short on Republican vision and long on bashing Democrats.

Boehner’s economic speech in Cleveland on Tuesday morning had few fresh new Republican policy ideas, yet he used the phrase “job killing” 13 times to describe the Obama agenda.

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The Democratic response to Boehner Tuesday was also telling — Democrats ranging from Vice President Joe Biden to Speaker Nancy Pelosi to party political operatives lined up to blast the speech and warn of a return to the economic legacy of George W. Bush.

Biden took time to chide “Boehner and his party” for running the economy into the ground. The Ohio Republican is “nostalgic for those good old days,” and Biden thinks that that America has seen Republican leadership and don’t want to go back.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41417.html#ixzz0xcMdGpZV

[Raine1967]

1. I'm not sure I like that use of the phrase...

A Contract on Obama??? :wtf: ????

[babylonsister]

2. I'm sure I don't like that phrase, but that's what's going on. nt

[impik]

3. Well, sometimes the truth can only be describe in ugly terms

[Arkana]

4. The key is "Short on Republican vision".

The Republicans are making a classic mistake--they're letting the choice in 2010 be between something and nothing.

That's what got Dubya elected in 2004--we didn't articulate our platform clearly enough and Bush's henchmen defined Kerry before he did.

[opihimoimoi]

6. GOPer quiver empty....Boner is the best they got....no new ammo...stuck with old shit

[opihimoimoi]

5. the man is hopeless

[Dulcinea]

7. Their bottom line: Obama must not succeed.

He must be a failed president because, if he succeeds, the old white Establishment guys will never regain their stranglehold on power.