GOP strategy memo revealed: This is about ‘making political points’ and ‘finger-pointing over blame.’
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GOP strategy memo revealed: This is about ‘making political points’ and ‘finger-pointing over blame.’
At 11 p.m. last night, after Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shut down Senate debate on the Climate Security Act by forcing the 492-page bill to be read in full, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) revealed the existence of a GOP strategy memo on the climate debate. The anonymous memo, provided to Reid “by a lobbyist involved in Republican strategy meetings,” explains that their climate strategy is “much more on making political points” than “affecting policy.” See the memo at the Wonk Room.
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The anonymous memo, provided to Reid “by a lobbyist involved in Republican strategy meetings,” explains that their climate strategy is “much more on making political points” than “affecting policy.”
That’s actually been their strategy on every issue for the last 3 decades……..
June 5th, 2008 at 1:04 pmFreaking childish Republicans. In grade school I’m sure they were all sent home with notes that said “doesn’t play well with others.”
They are poor sports.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:06 pm“Form over sustance” The Repug mantra. But now, it is clear to 75% of the people, that they have neither!
June 5th, 2008 at 1:07 pmIt’s all about the perpetual campaign not the country or even the world. Keeping the Republicans in control is the only thing these people care about. Not the constitution, not our rights and freedoms. They’re all traitors to this country.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:09 pmI’d be a little suspicious of an “anonymous memo”.
But it does seem to describe the Republican strategy to an exceptional degree.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:12 pm.
Just climate change…?
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June 5th, 2008 at 1:13 pm“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:17 pmThe anonymous memo, provided to Reid “by a lobbyist involved in Republican strategy meetings,” explains that their climate strategy is “much more on making political points” than “affecting policy.”
Making “political points”…??
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Say it isn’t so, Mitchie!!!!!!!!!!!
June 5th, 2008 at 1:17 pmthe scum that is the republican party.
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June 5th, 2008 at 1:21 pmHey, Prytania – eat sh*t and die!!!
~~ Anonymous
June 5th, 2008 at 1:22 pmThat is the right side in a nushell. The minute the discussion goes in a direction their pay masters don’t like, shut down the entire discussion. No negotiation, no compromise, no adult like behavior. They take their ball and they walk home.
Basically the whole mantra is:
If I can’t get it the way I want it; neither will the American people. Always party of country – always.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:23 pmAlways party of country – always.
Always party OVER country – always.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:24 pmBoner, McConnell, and the rest of this gang of thieves need to be outed. Even Republicans don’t want this type of politics played out on our time & money.
McConnell is a sniveling little loser. Boner’s a crybaby.
Boner’s up for re-election. I certainly hope the good people in Ohio see through his bullshit & can him.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:29 pmSen. Byrd released from hospital: spokesman
Reuters – 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Robert Byrd, who at 90 is the oldest member of the Senate, was released from a hospital on Thursday after three days of treatment for a mild infection, a spokesman for the West Virginia Democrat said.
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Bush misused Iraq intelligence – US Senate report
June 5th, 2008 at 1:32 pmReuters – 1 hour ago
By Randall Mikkelsen WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – US President George W. Bush and his top policymakers exaggerated Saddam Hussein’s links to terrorism and ignored doubts among intelligence agencies about Iraq’s arms programs as they made their case …
Bush misused Iraq intelligence – US Senate report
Reuters – 1 hour ago
By Randall Mikkelsen WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – US President George W. Bush and his top policymakers exaggerated Saddam Hussein’s links to terrorism and ignored doubts among intelligence agencies about Iraq’s arms programs as they made their case …
What about those criminals creating their own agency (Office of Special Plans) to stovepipe unvetted intelligence directly to the White House (from Chalibi(sp?) and Curveball)?
June 5th, 2008 at 1:42 pmHere’s a link Prytania
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/06/05/gop-climate-memo/
you are funny.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:42 pmHere’s a link Prytania
http://thinkprogress.org/ wonkroom/ 2008/ 06/ 05/ gop-climate-memo/
you are funny.
No the d!ck is not funny. he’s a traitor to our country. There is absolutely no way in hell an American can read this report about misleading us to war, and still support the criminal enterprise known as the Bush administration. No way. If the d!ck still supports Bush – after knowing the entire debacle was ginned up from whole cloth – there is no turning him around. My question sh!thead is why are you not fighting the good fight? Why are you allowing your felloe citizens to fight the fight? Your not a fraidy at are you? Oh, I forgot. If you support Bush you are a idiot first, scared second.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:48 pmGod-awful
One-trick
Pony
The Republican Party: There is no shame when there is no conscience.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:48 pmjohnboy:
June 5th, 2008 at 1:52 pmwhat are you thoughts on global climate change?
Yeah Prytania, we’re going to quit right after this.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:56 pmThis is further proof of that we what have suspected and observed for years if fact.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:57 pmHey, Prytania – eat sh*t and die!!!
~~ Anonymous
Or maybe after this, you just never know.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:57 pmjohnboy Says:
If you don’t believe the Democrats are not doing the same thing with this “Man Made Global Warming” Propaganda, you are as dumb as the message you preach.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
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I don’t believe the Democrats are spreading “global warming propaganda.” I believe the scientific consensus on anthropoegenic climate change speaks for itself. No propaganda is needed.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:57 pmjohnboy Says:
Its still a hypothesis.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
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So is gravity. What’s your point?
June 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pmIs it a hypothesis you believe is a likely reality?
June 5th, 2008 at 2:01 pmSo johnboy my guess is you were homeschooled right. And science and math weren’t exactly mom’s strong suit. I bet reading the bible was her specialty, righ?
June 5th, 2008 at 2:03 pmhussein toasterhead Says:
johnboy Says:
Its still a hypothesis.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
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So is gravity. What’s your point?
Gravity sucks and so do NeoCons!
June 5th, 2008 at 2:04 pmjohnboy Says:
Damn, I though we figured that on out. What about centrifugal force is that one still up in the air?
June 5th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
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No, that’s already been determined to be a fictitious force – an artifact of acceleration of a reference frame rather than a true force in the classical sense.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:07 pmShayne Says:
So johnboy my guess is you were homeschooled right. And science and math weren’t exactly mom’s strong suit. I bet reading the bible was her specialty, righ?
Yep, you got his number exactly right. Home schooled by a believer in ghosts, witches, and spirits. Which is all well and good, as long as you don’t live on planet Earth.
Being a troll is bad enough. Being an uneducated troll is worse still.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:09 pmZimzone Says:
Gravity sucks and so do NeoCons!
June 5th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
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Not necessarily – General Relativity proposes that gravity does not suck, but it actually distorts the fabric of space-time causing smaller objects to accelerate towards a large object along a straight line defined by the curvature of space-time.
However, your statement is still correct, in that neocons are well-known for distorting reality to suit their needs and whims.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pmSo what do you think should be done?
June 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pmjohnboy
June 5th, 2008 at 2:21 pmThat Rightie uninformed opinion on full display, I love it!
**SMACK** They’re talking to you johnboy, but you wouldn’t understand would you?
June 5th, 2008 at 2:22 pmGlad to hear you’re learning something while you hang around annoying the grownups.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:25 pmIsn’t that what we’ve been doing?
June 5th, 2008 at 2:27 pmThat superior Progressive mentality on full display, I love it!
I appreciate the compliment. Now would someone please explain to the home schooled troll what a compliment is. The word has multiple syllables. Thanks in advance.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:27 pmhussein toasterhead Says:
No, that’s already been determined to be a fictitious force – an artifact of acceleration of a reference frame rather than a true force in the classical sense……….Not necessarily – General Relativity proposes that gravity does not suck, but it actually distorts the fabric of space-time causing smaller objects to accelerate towards a large object along a straight line defined by the curvature of space-time.
Show off.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:29 pmjohnboy Says:
Let the free market drive innovation and at all cost keep the government out of private business!
June 5th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
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Ah yes – the same way the free market drove wonderful innovations like the New Orleans hurricane relief plan, no-income-no-asset loans, lead-filled Chinese toys, Roundup-Ready corn, and the more than 100,000 annual US deaths from cigarette-related lung cancer.
Who needs government regulation, eh?
June 5th, 2008 at 2:31 pmNO suprise that the GOP have been following the Rove doctrine of attempting to have a GOP majority forever.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:31 pmWhy then do you think the governments of nations all over the world are not following your plan. Why is the US military actively involved. Have they been duped?
June 5th, 2008 at 2:31 pmOnce again, let’s fix the facts around the policy – the policy to be a stick-the-head-in-the-sand policy of denial. If you can make a political point, you WIN!!! No matter that you actually have no policy of substance, this is about the policy of politics – raw unadulterated politics.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:32 pmjohnboy Says:
“Let the free market drive innovation and at all cost keep the government out of private business!”
Great! Look how innovative big oil has been in ignoring scientific opinion and propagandizing their (biased) opinions on climate change. Look at how great it’s been to be importing unregulated goods from China (lead laden toys, dangerous prescription drugs, tainted meat). Look at what a good thing it has been to have an Administration in collusion with contractor/friends to perpetuate a war that the Nation was lied into so they can all profit on the war like hyenas on a carcass. That “conservative” view of a free market system without any Gov’t oversight or regulation is ONLY good for big business’s bottom line and does nothing but breed the concept of short term profit over long term concerns for public safety and the environment. You know johnboy, to put it more simply, GO CHENEY YOURSELF!!
June 5th, 2008 at 2:35 pmKeltoi Says:
Show off.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
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Nah – that’s nothing. I didn’t even START on the quantum mechanics theory of gravity, which I believe has something to do with superstrings and hubris.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:35 pmOh and let’s not forget while discussing the benefits of a free market economy with no Gov’t oversight just how well that has worked for the housing market and the economy in general. Man, these trolls get stupider day by day. I think somebody p1ssed in their kool aid today. hey johnboy, did today’s kool aid taste a little more acidy than usual?
June 5th, 2008 at 2:39 pmhussein toasterhead what does silly string and hummus have to do with anything? Quantom mechanics sounds like a Greek Birthday party.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:42 pmA Patriot Acting Says:
Oh and let’s not forget while discussing the benefits of a free market economy with no Gov’t oversight just how well that has worked for the housing market and the economy in general. Man, these trolls get stupider day by day.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
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What they also forget is that unrestricted free markets are inherently incompatible with democracy. Which is why the only places we’ve seen these kind of free markets are in totalitarian states – Chile, Argentina, China, etc.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:45 pmLet the free market drive innovation and at all cost keep the government out of private business!
Cause it worked so well with Enron, Tyco, Arthur Andersen, and all the energy companies that gouged California for hunderds of millions of dollars.
Don’t forget to inhale after exhaling. It’s a two step process.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:46 pmA Patriot Acting Says:
hussein toasterhead what does silly string and hummus have to do with anything? Quantom mechanics sounds like a Greek Birthday party.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
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It’s very much like a Greek birthday party, except that the baklava is always on the verge of wavefunction collapse.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:49 pmhussein toasterhead Says:
Nah – that’s nothing. I didn’t even START on the quantum mechanics theory of gravity, which I believe has something to do with superstrings and hubris.
I was enamored with chaos theory until I discovered that there are limits to chaotic behavior. Hopefully the Bush administration has reached it’s limit. But I suspect that this administration’s behavior is better covered under the theory of idiocy. Thankfully for the chimpster, he is so low as a leader that his fall from grace is less than a foot to rock bottom.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:50 pmjohnboy Says:
So i guess your a fan of the movie What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole . Are you a God like Ramtha? She’s my hero!!
June 5th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
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Nah, I’m not really into pseudoscience — I prefer actual science. Which is why I take seriously the recommendations of actual scientists on global climate change.
June 5th, 2008 at 3:00 pmJohnboy: I don’t take anyone seriously who can’t tell the difference between “your” and “you’re”…
A third grader could do better.
Oh, and your logic sucks too. You’re an idiot.
June 5th, 2008 at 3:22 pmjohnboy Says:
Let the free market drive innovation and at all cost keep the government out of private business!
June 5th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
And a gallon of regular nonleaded is at $4.39.9 today. It has been increasing at an alarming rate of $.06 per gallon every three or four days. My company is going through plans to layoff and everything is going up while the dollar is becoming useless. That ignorant talking point about the free market failed again. It didn’t work for Reagan, Daddy Bush, and Dubya has proven it wrong to the point the conservatives will be out of government for the next fifty years!
June 5th, 2008 at 3:32 pmThe once powerful house that Rove built would have easily stood off any attempts to expose them. But times have changed. Greed and small minds don’t mix well and the “Permanent Republican Majority” is now being discussed as going the way of the whig.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:06 pmSo this is what the vaunted “permanent republican majority” boils down to… another slimy little ball of snot. Pathetic.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:56 pmDoes this not suggest that the GOP is significantly more concerned with serving their own interests than they are those of the American people, which is supposed to be their job?!?
June 6th, 2008 at 12:25 amI have a question for ThinkProgress: Does it ever bother you that Keith Olbermann never gives you credit for stories like this when he mentions them on ‘Countdown’? I mean, it’s so obvious that the only reason he knew about what McConnell did with the Climate Security Act is because he read your article on this. Yet, he passed off his anger of what McConnell did on the Senate floor as if he got the story on his own when he clearly got it from ThinkProgress.
So, do you think Keith is a plagiarist or is there a secret pact between you guys and Keith that you will feed him noteworthy stories every week that need more mainstream attention? If it’s the latter, don’t make it a secret anymore. Have Keith mention you guys as a source ON THE AIR so more people will read this great site.
June 6th, 2008 at 1:09 am