When's the last time you heard a Repub Speak Out For the Poor, Unemployed and Medically Uninsured?

[Blackhatjack]

... and for good measure state they will forgo their own compensation, healthcare and benefits until Congress acts to help all those in need?

Repubs are a bought and sold Party, owned by the corporations and the richest Americans who demand that they act to protect their interests -- And by golly stay bought!

We don't even hear the lie anymore that Repubs believe in 'compassionate conversatism.' I guess they have to admit that lie has been fully exposed and there is no use trying to make it a rallying cry anymore.

IF DEMS make the issue about who the Repubs stand for and it is not for the great majority of Americans, the midterm elections will be no problem. But if DEMS try to pretend there is bipartisanship on the Hill with Repubs, they might as well mail in the election results for Repubs.

[TheKentuckian]

1. Teddy??? Maybe Ike.

[burnsei sensei]

2. Never.

nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Eisenhower, I think.

He sure as hell would not be a Republican today.

He would be appalled.

[Blackhatjack]

4. This election is about getting the voters to identify with who really represents their interests...

... and no matter how the MSM peddles the propaganda of the rich, powerful and Repub Party, it is no great stretch to figure out they don't represent the majority of Americans and their interests.

[Lugnut]

5. How about never? n/t

[OHdem10]

6. We do forget---from the beginning of political parties in this

country, the Republican Party has been the Party of Big Business
and the Rich. These are their constituents. As the Party has
moved more and more Conservative they have become more and
more ideologically small Government. Social Programs and
concern for the poor is not part of their platform. This is
not governmental responsibility.

At one time the Democratic Party was concerned with the poor.
After DLC Formation, we actually compete for the same voters
as Republicans and go a little farther down the economic
ladder to get enough votes to put them over the top. The Democratic
Party was considered the Party of Working People and Poor.
This is when Democrats had great majorities and great Legislation
like SS, Civil Rights Legislation Medicare Meicaid was passed.


Go back over the more recent campaigns. Only this last
election was there a real push for middle working class vote.

We are now an Aristocracy( I am not being sarcastic).
Both parties are competing for the top less than half
the countries votes. The other half does not matter.

[KT2000]

7. Only that they hate them

and then they have plenty to say.

[hyphenate]

8. I've been trying to figure out

how many Dems are confident enough this voting season to simply show the outcomes of some of the votes the last year to simply and definitively show people how many actual votes the pugs gave to measures to help the people in the country.

To lower the deficit?
Secure more money for schools and teachers?
To vote against giving the banks more bailout funds?
To raise sanctions on companies like BP?
To quash corporate profits in FAVOR of the middle class?
To give more people in this country medical insurance?
To make sure only the richest 2% go back to their old tax burden?
To make sure small businesses are able to stay alive?



I think it might be all we need to maky many people more and more aware of just which group is really killing our country, and who is trying to save it.

[Blackhatjack]

9. Exactly. The record is there to run on. n/t