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The GOP Plan for the Economy GOP
Talking Points Memo —
... And now Greg Sargent has dug up a quote where a leading Republican admits that this is in fact their strategy. It's not about coming up with policies to save the country; it's all about pulling down Nancy Pelosi's and her caucus's favorability ratings. ...
Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry: Party First
Oliver Willis —
... Patrick McHenry, a Republican rep from North Carolina has told the press that his primary goal in Washington is to bring down approval ratings for Democrats. Now, my guess is that the people in his district in North Carolina sent him there to - oh, I dunno - represent North Carolina and not just use the House of Representatives as a campaign arm of the GOP. ...
House Republican explains party's 'goal'
Political Animal —
... on the GOP message teams. "Our goal is to bring down approval numbers for [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and for House Democrats. That will take repetition. This is a marathon, not a sprint." The quote certainly won't surprise anyone who's paid any attention to the House Republican caucus over the last several years. Of course their goal is to bring down Democrats' approval numbers. Of course they're more concerned with winning the daily "message war" than shaping public policy. But as Greg Sargent explained , McHenry's candor nevertheless has salience for Democrats on the Hill: ...
GOP legislative priority isn't to pass any legislation to help America, it's to drive down Democratic poll numbers
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Well that's one way to focus like a laser beam on the economy. Not to focus on it at all. From the Plum Line: GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry, a key player in helping craft the Republican message, has offered an unusually blunt description of the Republican strategy right now. McHenry’s description is buried in this new article from National Journal (sub. only): “We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010,” said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., an outspoken conservative who has participated on ...
Bonus Quote of the Day
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
"We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010. Our goal is to bring down approval numbers for Pelosi and for House Democrats. That will take repetition. This is a marathon, not a sprint."
-- Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), quoted by the National Journal, on the new Republican strategy.
Quote of the Day
Shakesville —
"We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010. Our goal is to bring down approval numbers for [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and for House Democrats. That will take repetition. This is a marathon, not a sprint."—Republican Representative Patrick McHenry, offering what Greg Sargent rightly calls "an unusually blunt description of the Republican strategy right now." ...
Cut the GOP out
Daily Kos —
The plan: GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry, a key player in helping craft the Republican message, has offered an unusually blunt description of the Republican strategy right now. McHenry’s description is buried in this new article from National Journal (sub. only): "We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010," said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., an outspoken conservative who has participated on the GOP message teams. "Our goal is to bring down approval numbers for [Speaker ...
Rep. McHenery on House GOP: ‘Our goal is to bring down approval numbers’ of Democrats.
Think Progress —
... today, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) “offered an unusually blunt description of the Republican strategy right now.” Dropping any pretense that his party’s opposition to Obama’s agenda is based on anything other than politics, McHenry explained that House Republicans’ only goal right now is to “ ...
McHenry's game is classic Republican Destruction Politics: bring down support for Democrats
Crooks and Liars —
Is there any case to be made for bipartisanship when Republicans openly say their goal is to destroy and not construct? The latest example: More Republican Destruction Politics from Rep. Patrick McHenry.
Greg Sargent writes:
GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry, a key player in helping craft the Republican message, has offered an unusually blunt description of the Republican strategy right now.
McHenry’s description is buried in this new article from National Journal (sub. only):
"We will lose on legislation. ...
GOP Still Believes Perception Trumps Reality
Open Left - Front Page —
House Republican Deputy Whip Patrick McHenry, March 2009:
"We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010," said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., an outspoken conservative ...
Because for Republicans, it's all about political power
Brilliant at Breakfast —
And if it means a few million more people lose their jobs, their homes, their health insurance, their retirement investments, that's all OK as far as the Republican Party. Because their party's power trumps everything else. Nothing matters more than Republican Power. And if they can't have it, they'll take the whole damn country down with them: ...
Republicans Go On The Warpath-- Against Each Other
DownWithTyranny! —
... and beat on each other-- although North Carolina closet queen Patrick McHenry did reveal the Republican Party's strategy for further wrecking the country today. Joe the Plumber is ...
3/10: Piling On The President
Blogometer —
... , conservative bloggers are portraying his first fifty days as an abject failure (primarily because of his inability to reverse the economy's downward spiral): MCHENRY: Thanks For Clarifying, Patrick! Liberal bloggers are criticizing Rep. McHenry for telling National Journal that the GOP's goal "is to bring down [the] approval numbers" of congressional Dems: "'We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010,' said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., an outspoken conservative who has participated on the GOP message teams. ...
Gallup: Satisfaction With Congress (And Overall) Is Rising
Daily Kos —
... issues. Such an explanation seems plausible given that a majority of Democrats now approve of the job Congress is doing, and that the gap between Democratic and Republican approval of Congress is growing, as Congress passes and President Obama signs laws to deal with the economy and other issues that largely follow a Democratic philosophy of governing. Elections have consequences. Fancy that. On the other hand, the Party of No has a different strategy than doing the people's work: We will lose on ...
