there's nothing like election season

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 7:28am

a new online magazine debuts complete with video. expect to see snippets of the video along with similar ads coming soon to a television near you...if you're in a battleground state.
america weakly

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 7:35am

It's like an unfunny and weak (pun intended) version of the Onion.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 7:42am

I just love the maturity of Republicans. it's as honorable as their ability to get things done for the country.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 7:52am

I, for one, cannot wait for their big fear of the government taking over our health care.
Or repealing those tax cuts. You know, so we can pay for all the sh*t the Republicans hoisted on our national debt while simultaneously reducing the amount of money being brought in to finance those said things.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 7:54am

pandering? they're merely highlighting the accomplishments of the leaders of the left. it's an homage and it's just the beginning. i foresee a whole lotta ads using just the democrats' words. which should be good for the left and bad for the right as the american people are solidly behind the democrats, right? i man these types of ads will backfire completely, won't they?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 8:05am

Republicans are soulless greedy spendthrifts who have no integrity and believe in nothing except getting elected.

In fact, that's ALL Republicans CAN do: get elected. They certainly can't govern.

But the times, they are a-changin'...

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 8:07am

What accomplishments, Papa? They're making assumptions based on what they THINK Democrats will do, like repeal every single tax cut, INCREASE taxes, bring back trial lawyers' glory days (supposedly), cause honest, decent, hard-working CEOs to close down businesses because they can't afford to make the working conditions in their factories safe for their workers...
basically, a big ol' pack of lies and misleading "facts."

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 8:07am

gee, pj, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 8:10am

As Rose says before her turn, "What I got inside of me, what I keep holding down inside of me, why, if I ever let it out, there wouldn't be signs BIG enough, there wouldn't be lights BRIGHT enough..."

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 8:14am

pj, it's not healthy to hold such things inside. they tend to eat at you and come out in the wrong ways and at the wrong people. you should be free to let them out and trust folks to understand. if only more democrats were willing to let out these feelings, we'd have a more honest national debate.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 8:15am

Here's what Rep. Jim McDermott thinks the GOP will do: spend the election season instilling fear in the populace.

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Be Afraid

The Congress of the United States has reconvened in Washington, D.C., but don't expect Congress to legislate on behalf of the American people.

The Republican Party will spend the next 30 days trying to make you afraid. It is the Republican midterm election strategy.

For the rest of September, until the moment Republican leaders gavel the Congress into adjournment, Republican speakers will rise and implore the American people to be afraid.

Republicans will call it security, and every time they do, just remember they are speaking in code. Republicans really mean insecurity.

During September, Republicans will wield the gavel, but they will not make America safer.

We will not consider, much less pass, legislation to better protect our ports. We know what needs to be done, but Republicans are hard on rhetoric and soft on action.

Republicans are going to use their insecure code word so often that I hope Lou Dobbs, Jon Stewart, and others keep track, and remind people daily of how often Republicans are willing to talk, and how little they are willing to act.

After America was attacked on 9/11, the finest military on earth--- the United States Armed Forces--- was sent to Afghanistan to hunt down bin Laden and stop the Taliban. They did a magnificent job until U.S. soldiers were ordered to leave before the job was done. We don't have bin Laden and Afghanistan is looking more like Iraq every hour.

A Republican Administration is responsible for diverting our military, draining our treasury, destroying our credibility, and making America less safe.

The American people know that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but the Administration denies the intelligence. Instead, the President mechanically recites his stay the course PR line.

The American people know we are off course and adrift in a sea of violence. U.S. soldiers are not fighting a war on terror in Iraq. They are targets in a civil war among Iraqis.

When Republicans parade to the rostrum to outdo each other in using their insecurity code word, think of how insecure our soldiers are.

Republicans keep saying things are getting better. That is disproved by their own Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, who ordered another 13,000 U.S. soldiers into Iraq recently. There are now 140,000 U.S. soldiers surrounded by civil war.

After 2,653 American lives lost, and 19,600 wounded Americans, the country deserves Democratic leadership that knows the Republican plan to stay the course is the most insecure plan for our soldiers, this nation, and the Iraqi people.

Republicans will spend the next 30 days trying to stay in power, nothing more. They will say their insecurity code word over and over, but they won't pass the recommendations of the bi-partisan 9/11 commission.

Republicans won't bring up immigration legislation intended to make our borders safer.

Republicans won't address reforms to make Social Security safer.

Republicans won't bring up legislation to end taxpayer subsidies for Big Oil, or launch a national campaign to end our addiction to oil.

Instead, Republicans will tell you to be afraid unless you pay through the nose at the pump, and Big Oil drills in every pristine environment left on the planet.

Republicans will tell you to be afraid for Social Security unless they give your benefits to Wall Street, so you might have holdings like Enron.

Republicans will tell you to be afraid unless they can mortgage America's 22nd century, so that today's super rich can just have more.

Republicans had their chance and squandered it, leaving the American people with monstrous debt.

Republicans had their chance and used it to divert America away from the real war on terror.

Republicans are calling this Security September.

Just remember to be afraid....afraid of what else Republicans will do if they remain in power after the November election.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 8:17am

now, now, pj, those are someone else's words and they can't possibly convey the truth about your feelings. you owe it to yourself to not let these things fester.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 8:25am

they'll do for now

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 8:29am

I used to compare politics to football, but I like morgan spurlock's comparison of current politics to wwf wrestling.

hype and it's all fake

papa, if that's the kind of campaigning the GOP are gonna run with, then they truly stand for nothing. and truly don't care about this country or at least its people. the not rich people I mean.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 9:35am

jerby thank you for your audition for the '08 edwards campaign. they'll contact you with the results.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 10:06am

once again I applaud gop maturity and ability to have an honest, direct dialogue.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 10:08am

hey now, don't tar and feather the gop for my proclivities.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 10:47am

The Republican Platform -

On Tuesday, before Pakistan's announcement:

Osama Bin Laden, 9/11, Iraq = A test of loyalty, Fear Fear Fear

On Wednesday, after Pakistan's announcement:

Fear Fear Fear, 9/11, Iraq = A test of loyalty, Fear Fear Fear.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 10:50am

This is a great little announcement (and one bit of reporting ABC is doing up right, I guess, in light of their propagandizing with the 9/11 film)...
turns out the oh-so-low death toll in August in Iraq (Somewhere in the mid-500s) was just revised.
UPWARD.
So all that trumpeting about the low violence and the signs pointing towards less violence were a lie lie lie.
Surely, the real number was suppressed until they could squeeze a little good will out of that low number before letting the real tally eke out as an "adjustment."
It's over 1500. 1500 dead. In a month.

We lied but, hey, it's good press

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 1:42pm

don't forget the new gitmo 14 and the detainee treatment act. just how will they play out?

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 1:45pm

The page doesn't even succeed as satire. It's trying way too hard.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 1:47pm

do bear in mind that the intellectual minds of broadwayworld are not its target audience.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 1:49pm

...good point. I like to think we're smarter than the av-a-rage bear here.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 1:56pm

it's true, we are the best and brightest that the country has to offer and would the nation's fools and simpletons simply trash the constitution and cede power to a bww commission the world would be a better place and peace would reign over the earth.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 9/7/06 at 2:03pm

Plus, every Broadway house would have open rush policies.