New Ads Will Bash GOPers Who Oppose House Dems' Iraq Plan
A bit more on MoveOn's decision to jump aboard with the House Dem leadership's legislation to end the Iraq war by 2008: In advance of the expected vote on Thursday, the organization is now going up on the air with radio ads bashing two GOP incumbents who oppose the bill.
The lucky targets? GOP Reps. James Walsh of New York and Phil English of Pennsylvania.
The ads will run through Friday -- by which time the vote in the House will almost certainly have taken place. Check out the text of the ad:
YOUNG WOMAN: I don't know how he can walk.MAN: I guess he doesn't drive a car.
OLD WOMAN: He must eat lying down.
ANNOUNCER: They're talking about our Republican Congressman, Jim Walsh. Reliable sources have reported that he's lost his backbone. Last November, America voted to change course in Iraq. We wanted to bring our troops home from a religious civil war.
And we expected Jim Walsh to have the backbone to stand up to George Bush and Dick Cheney, to stand with the leadership in Congress and get us out of Iraq.
Instead Jim Walsh seems to be rolling over in support of George Bush, in support of sending in more troops, sacrificing more lives and more money on this religious civil war.
Has Jim Walsh really lost his backbone? Ask him. Call XXXXXXXXXXXXX. Paid for by the 3.2 million members of MoveOn.org Political Action.
The ad's title: "Spineless."
Love it. Hopefully more to come. MoveOn's a great group, gets things done that count. They understand that Bush & Co. only understand a metaphorical whack on the side of the head with a 2x4.
March 19, 2007 7:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Smear tactics instead of sound reasoning, typical of PAC smear tactics.
I'd be more likely to support MoveOn IF they did something like: 10 Reasons To End The Iraq War, something like that. Trashing on individual politicians, while gratifying, is only just barely entertaining when compared to contributing to some type of sound debate on policy.
The Big Money supports the war. Why? That's easy, it's lucrative, war always is. The people that build Big Shiny Tanks only make money if someone's buying Big Shiny Tanks, same goes for the people that make bullets etc. But, maybe it's time to ask the Big Money some of those Difficult Questions, my favorite being What Happened To 1.2 Trillion Dollars? Pre-debting
the american public for all of this without direct consent by vote, well, you could go on several different tangents from that talking point, but suffice it to say that our media and politicos are still trying to 'sell' the war, even Billary wants to 'stay the course', now.
Possibly the strongest argument for impeachment/requests for resignations is to have these instances of administrative recall serve as an example to other aspirants to high office that war on a whim or solely for financial gain is insufficient reason for waging it. It is kind of the job to carry forward some of these Hard Questions from the citizens, the voters, to the floor of the House, and for Congress to evaluate and answer them to the best of their ability, and not simply serve as rubber-stamp intermediaries between white house patrons and the Denver mint, with scarcely a look at the details in between. Also the general concept of public accountability would tend to suggest that there's something rotten in Denmark with the whole show, and hardly confined to one representative.
March 19, 2007 11:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
A 2x4, check that, more like a pipe wrench - shot out of a cannon.
He that hath a trade, hath an estate - from Poor Richards Almanac - Benjamin Franklin
March 20, 2007 6:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
What I'd like moveon to do is run radio ads in Alaska featuring Ted "Tubez" Stevens, noting that he knows nothing about the issues governed by the committee he chairs, and that he made the state a laughingstock with the bridge to nowhere.
Presumably radio air time is cheap up there.
March 20, 2007 9:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
If you've been paying attention it's worse than that. They're not building tanks to replace the ones we're losing, or enough armored vehicles of other sorts either. We are building the F-22 fighter though nobody can touch what we have now. We've deployed the Nat'l Missile Defense Shield which doesn't even work. Also the V-22 Osprey deathtrap which the Marines don't even want.
If Bush was serious about winning his war in Iraq he'd be doing a lot of things differently. But it really has nothing to do with his friends in the military industrial complex because they're getting their funding despite the war not because of it.
March 20, 2007 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink