See The 'Tea Party Membership Cards' Democrats Sent To GOP Freshman

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http://www.businessinsider.com/tea-party-membership-cards-2013-1

As new members of Congress are sworn in on Thursday, Democrats are looking to brand the incoming Republican class early on.
The DCCC is sending out the below "Tea Party membership cards" to the offices of 35 freshman Republicans.

Press releases in their individual districts identify each member as "the newest Tea Party House Republican who will put millionaires ahead of the middle class and dysfunction ahead of progress," according to DCCC communications director Jesse Ferguson.

Democrats aren't the only ones sarcastically rolling out the red carpet for the other side's incoming class. The NRCC sent out "official lap dog kits" for freshman Democrats emblazoned with corgis on Thursday, claiming they would teach them how to graduate from "Nancy Pelosi's obedience school."


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[MADem]

1. DCCC snarks in a much classier way that NRCC...what a bunch of losers they are, having to get

personal in order to try and fail to make a point! What a bunch of fucking schmucks! They're just so AFRAID of Nancy Pelosi! And when it comes to lockstep obedience, they're the bozos who wrote the playbook!

But this--this looks accurate to me...and the Dems did it without naming a single name:

[freshwest]

6. The baggers couldn't stop themselves from going after people following their WOMAN leader.

Speaks volumes to the GOP members and their sense of entitlement with which they've waged the war on women. The Democrats really nailed them on their priorities.

They're gonna just love having so many all-fired-up progressive women in what they thought was the last bastion of the good old boys club.

Sorry, you spoiled brats, but the Democrats resigned from the He-Man Woman-Haters Club a long time ago.

[Earth_First]

2. Petty bullshit.

We know what their politics are; so why the need to send a 'membership card' to the new members of Congress.

It's akin to high school bullying, it's childish and petty.

Why not take this energy and use it to defeat them in the arena of ideas during the immigration reform debate ahead of us instead of creating resistance to listen because of a few childish photocopies.

Makes no sense to me at all.

[djean111]

3. Yes, we know what their politics are.

But the people in their districts may not be aware of exactly how their politics really affect them.
I think it is actually well thought out and excellent campaign material - and will last longer than the millions (billions?) wasted on television ads that are increasingly tuned out.
And I think exposing people for what they are, and telling them you know what they are up to, helps defeat them.
And this gives people who are not in Washington or don't keep up on the internet with what happens in congress more useful information, besides just "Congress Bad!!!!".
Lay the blame where it belongs. Be loud and clear about it.

If this had the cartoonish insults like the thing that the Dems got from the GOP (Pelosi's dog pound or whatever?), then it would be childish and petty. This is just answering with facts, and a heads up. The newbies are all primed by the Tea party and think they can obstruct in secret and with impunity.
Nope.

[MotherPetrie]

4. I think they're lame, actually

[MineralMan]

5. Really, I'd prefer that they all act like adults who have serious

responsibilities than like frat boys. That'd be great.

[SunSeeker]

7. K&R