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Here’s the RNC’s fancy new web ad arguing that Ben Nelson or any other moderate Democrats would be hypocrites if they didn’t filibuster a motion to proceed on a health care bill. They claim that this would be akin to John Kerry’s famous “for it before I was against it” line on Iraq funding in 2004, which is wrong, although John Kerry is still terrible at speaking. But! We do appreciate the RNC’s production here, for the first time ever. The menacing, twitching figures, the repetition, the gritty industrial vibe. Too bad no one will ever see it. [Washington Independent]
As long as they’re going all Photoshoppy here, they might as well have spliced in an image of Michelle naked on the sofa behind Barry at 0:41. Or maybe Carrie Prejean. Because you can’t be expected to pay attention to every image you use.
Remember when the Republican Senators were all “Up or down vote! Up or down vote!” because the handful of filibusters the Democrats performed were the worst thing ever? I would never have expected them to turn out to be disingenuous hypocrites.
Republicans should plaster this everywhere — finally, Nelson, Blanche Lincoln and others will realize that the Republicans are going to vote against you regardless of what you do, so you may as well have some backbone.
But YOU saw it. And then you made ME see it. And I can never unsee it. So thanks a heap, Wonkette. Now I’m a Republic, and I never wanted to be one! WAAAHHHHH!
I don’t know, are they going for the ‘rabbit-ears’ reception their base is used to getting on their tee-vee set? Those folks don’t even have high speed internet to appreciate the effort. What idiots.
Pretty cool, but would’ve been better with some oxen and rats.
JMP:
But being disingenuous hypocrites is all they’re good at.
What does President Obama eating a peach have to do with healthcare reform?
(I watched with the sound off so I might have missed the connection. Or not.)
For some reason, that clip makes me want to see Michael Steele get eaten by Spiny Norman.
Whoa, they added ‘experiment’ to the “government run health care” talking point? The monkeys weren’t clicking the buttons under “government run health care” alone anymore? They need a new word to be scared - poor monkeys!
Skinny Puppy is going to sue for music copyright infringement. Anywho…ah…who was that one guy who was all like “Muhumbmphrar rahumprahum the bill. Befumphumpa aumpha rahumprahum” and turning around with a microphone?
Now that I’ve watched the video, the graphics appear to be ripping off the style of Fallout 3’s intro and ending. However, the Republicans actually DO want to set the world on fire.
Needs more cowbell.
AHHHHH!!!!!! SEIZURE!!!!!
That little thingy of Michael Steele dancing was much more entertaining than this.
Marketing Firm Guy: Let’s change “Government run health care ANAL PROBE” to “experiment,” dirge metal it up about 40% with a 10% grudge nuance, deliver it to Mike go out for a couple of Heinekens.
RNC does Saw XXIV.
oh good god people. It’s called the public option for a reason. Don’t like it? Don’t get it! Continue paying for your own private policy - which, while the way, will be cheaper, as will the costs for each of your doctors’ appointments, as people get insured and stop going to the ER for a cold or stop ignoring warning signs and waiting till a condition is advanced (and expensive) to treat.
By the way, I love how “Obama’s experiment” has worked so well for how many years now in Canada and Europe… making it pretty much not an experiment, just a cost-reducing option. Oh noes! The horrors! How dare he!
Leni Riefenstahl’s mash-up of “The Blair Witch Project” and Kerry campain footage done on an Apple IIgs.
whoa hey it’s actually good.
I love have they say “health care experiment”…
As if the experiment is to see what will happen if everyone has access to affordable health care that doesn’t fuck policy holders when the really need it. IT COULD GO HORRIBLY WRONG.
The new health care bill should have a new amendment denying health care to rich Republicans in Congress.
No sound, but not impressed with the visuals. S’too twitchy.
JMP: Wouldn’t it have been hilariously awesome if, as threatened, they did away with filibustering entirely, just months before losing control of the Senate?
V572625694: I vote for an entire series of Obama/Prejean photoshops. Both Obamas.
Gorillionaire: There goes my afternoon.
WarAndG: Are those the lyrics to Little Drummer Boy? ‘Tis the season, after all.
V572625694: GOP doesn’t depict naked. That would be immoral. The lying and the casting aspersions (Dems are literally quivering yellow cowardly jelly-people) are all just aspects of engaging in the competitive market of free ideas.
One of us, meaning somebody with talent and wit, meaning not me, should do a web video of the republican filibuster flip flop. Ben what’s his name should just tell his constituents that he voted to allow the everyone in the Senate to voice their opinions because that is how Democracy in America Works…
Josh Fruhlinger: Yeah, but that would assume they were ever actually serious about doing away with the filibuster, instead of simply writing in their diaries about all the Senators they want to filibuster next time they lose the majority. We’ll see how THEY like it, NYA!
President George Bush (43) was, of course, against it before it was for it.
The defense appropriation bill that Sen. Kerry supported actually included paying for what we spent. President Bush announced he would veto that bill - although at that time in his administration(s) he’d never vetoed a bill.
So, the Sentate went back and took out the little part about actually paying for it, President Bush said he would support it (of course) and Sen. Kerry then thought it was something of a bad idea to appropriate $87,000,000 and neglect to include any way to raise those funds.
Josh Fruhlinger: It was a genius move by the gang of shits to give in on the crazed Bush judicial nominees to preserve the right to filibuster.
Zadig: Nah; most of the Republicans were deluded enough to believe that they would never, ever lose their majority.
The twitchiness just made me giggle. It’s like they’re all hopped up on drugs or sumpin.
Tundra Grifter: You are correct. In other words KERRY FLIPFLOPPED LIKE A PAIR OF FLIPFLOPS ,FLOPPING ON A ,WAFFLE IRON HE ALSO WAFFLES ,MORE THAN IHOP ON A SUNDAY MORNING T,OO THEN HE FLOPS AND FLIPS ,TILL ITS TIME TO DO IT ALL ,AGIN FLLLLIIIIPPPPPPFLLL ,LLLOOOOOPPPPP!!!!!! ,
Tundra Grifter: Dude, you left out a few zeros: it’s $87,000,000,000. Seems pretty small by today’s standards of spending where we worry about things costing $1,200,000,000,000.
Or, I should add, we get very very very concerned about the wastefulness of spending all of $53,000,000 over 15 years. (That’s how much federal funding ACORN received according to a Greenwald article.)
53,000,000
87,000,000,000
Hennnngh.
oh phew. i thought it was actually going to be cool looking.
At 0:24 there is a flickering image of Barry eating an apple with the title “Rising Premiums.” Clearly, fruit is barry barry scary!
There is “one” true statement made in this ad, “Americans don’t respect politicians that try to have it both ways”.
Well eat this one RNC: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29456.html
F’ing hypocrites.
God, the job market must really be starting to make the young, hip, creative types desperate for anythinng they can get their hands on. Resume-killer, y/y?