Ellison: GOP and tea party ‘have been fused’
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 9:35 am
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Still from the DNC's new video
Democrats see the Republican Party’s close ties to the tea party movement as a wedge issue in the November election, and yesterday the DNC held a press conference to drive that wedge a bit deeper. A new DNC video asserting that the GOP and the tea party are “one and the same” echoes a message Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison made at the press event: “There is no doubt that the Republican Party and the Tea Party cause have been fused.”
The video, which includes an image of Rep. Michele Bachmann, founder and chair of the House Tea Party Caucus, was released along with a new website, The Republican Party Contract on America, which outlines the Democrats’ ten-point perspective of what this GOP/tea party fusion stands for:
1. Repeal the Affordable Care Act (Health Insurance Reform)
2. Privatize Social Security or phase it out altogether
3. End Medicare as it presently exists
4. Extend the Bush tax breaks for the wealthy and big oil
5. Repeal Wall Street Reform
6. Protect those responsible for the oil spill and future environmental catastrophes
7. Abolish the Department of Education
8. Abolish the Department of Energy
9. Abolish the Environmental Protection Agency
10. Repeal the 17th Amendment
“The Tea Party is now an institutionalized part of the Republican party. They are one and the same,” a DNC operative told National Journal‘s Hotline yesterday. “The positions espoused by the Tea Party is the governing platform of the Republican party. And as voters make their choice this fall it’s important to understand what the Republican-Tea Party wants to do if elected.”
Watch the DNC video:
8 Comments
Comment posted July 29, 2010 @ 9:52 am
Ellison is intellectually dishonest and an idiot. And those are his good points.
He and the DNC see nothing wrong with putting up this phony straw man to knock down because they think you’re stupid. The Tea Party and the republican party are only “fused” if you understand that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
And if that’s the criteria for “fused,” you’re going to find out in November that about 100 million Americans are “fused” with the republicans.
Comment posted July 29, 2010 @ 9:56 am
A little testy there Dennis. you keep whistling past the graveyard about the November elections. Why it is almost like you are trying to convince yourself that the Tea Party matters… or that the GOP is going to make major wins. Sorry but it ain’t gonna happen… enjoyed Obama on the view today. You?
Comment posted July 29, 2010 @ 10:13 am
We sided with Russia in world war II against the nazis and the TEA Party will side with the republicans against the liberals November 2010. Remember who won WWII?
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Comment posted July 29, 2010 @ 11:00 am
I seem to remember Dennis predicting a windfall victory by McCain last year.
Comment posted July 30, 2010 @ 9:44 am
Fair enough in that the great bulk of the country is philosophically closer to the tea-party than they are to the progressive movement.
I wonder if Rep. Ellison would agree that the progressive movement (which we now know IS the US presence of the radical Marxist left), is one in the same with the Democratic Party Leadership.
Don’t worry that YouTube is forthcoming I’m quite sure.
Comment posted July 31, 2010 @ 5:25 pm
I remember who won WWII. It was the country that spent the most lives and showed great innovation (Russia), the country that showed the greatest courage and determination as a nation under fire (UK), and the country that ran the greatest wartime deficits and told the private sector what to build (USA).
The Germans ran into production problems at a key part of the war when the private sector manufacturers fell to bickering over fund allocations.
I wonder who AkCoyote is comparing to Russia: The Tea Party or the republicans?
Comment posted July 31, 2010 @ 6:36 pm
The Tea Party movement is a product of extreme conservative propaganda. It combines the mob mentality with the passion of vigilantism. They are more or less independent from the republicans, but the GOP is their natural home. In some instances, they have co-opted the GOP platform.
Their goal seems to be to scrap America and start over.
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