McCotter: House GOP needs to be an ‘entrepreneurial insurgency.’
McCotter: House GOP needs to be an ‘entrepreneurial insurgency.’
In February, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) argued that the Republican Party needed to be come an “insurgency” to counter Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, and added that the Taliban can serve as “a model.” In an interview with Roll Call about the GOP’s latest re-branding effort, House Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) echoed Sessions, saying that the House GOP needed to act as an “entrepreneurial insurgency”:
Instead of potentially diluting their message by outsourcing its development to outside players, McCotter said, House Members should focus on engaging the Democratic majority as an “entrepreneurial insurgency” and continue to build their strength from within the Conference.
“We should be focusing on doing the little things right and building on them,” McCotter told Roll Call. “We have to do it every single day in the House.”
He added, “I hope [the new group] augments it but I worry that it may overwhelm it.”
Roll Call notes that McCotter is “the only member of the House leadership team who declined to participate in the National Council for a New America,” the GOP re-branding group launched by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) last week.
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May 4th, 2009 at 1:36 pmThe Republican Party needs to emigrate.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:38 pmWell, that would be a start. I won’t hold my breath though.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:41 pmInsurgency…I dont think thats a word that they want to use…
May 4th, 2009 at 1:41 pmTo combine the two things, the Taliban insurgency does exhibit a wealth of entrepreneural characteristics.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:42 pmThey’re trying different shades of lipstick on that PIG!
May 4th, 2009 at 1:42 pmWe should help the Republicans in their efforts ro rebrand themselves. I suggest from now on we just call them the Taliban.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:42 pmI’m somewhat surprised that he’s combining the idea of entrepreneur with concentrating on the small things. Yes, a business owner does need to keep all the small things in line.
But at the same time, the business needs to keep focuse on the big picture.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:43 pmOr the TaliQaeda, maybe the QaedaBani, TaliVeigh, VeighBan…
May 4th, 2009 at 1:48 pm“Entrepreneurial insurgency”?
They’re really flailing.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:49 pm“We should be focusing on doing the little things right and building on them,” McCotter told Roll Call.
McCotter should really start by being a little bit more introspective and self-reflective.
After all, his party has been associated with GDumbya and the Keystone Kops for the past eight years. “Doing the little things right” is not a re-branding strategy for his party; it’s a full raze it to the ground and start from scratch strategy.
Good luck with that, Petey!
May 4th, 2009 at 1:50 pmSo, the GOP should take risks in a rebellious fashion in order to make money? I think the GOP should invest in some dictionaries for each Republican in the US before they attempt any governing.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:50 pmFundamental change, which is what the GOP (and Dems) need not be so hard. Keep it simple, work for the ‘people’, admit (and learn) from your mistakes and successes, and research your sources. Admittedly, the republicans are having issues completing ANY of those concepts, but their spiral dive is hurting us all as much as the last eight years of King George did.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:51 pmReally, just what on earth do they mean by “Entrepreneurial Insurgency”? And why do they think that making up more mumbo-jumbo will do them any good?
May 4th, 2009 at 1:52 pmInsurgency, huh? If that is the case, might I suggest rebranding the GOP into a branch of Xe?
One man’s insurgency is another man’s democratic revolution. We elected this official; you’re going to have to listen to him for the next four years.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:52 pmMcCotter said, House Members should focus on engaging the Democratic majority as an “entrepreneurial insurgency” and continue to build their strength from within the Conference.
I’m sorry, but this is meaningless. Just what the hell is he supposed to be trying to say? That the Republicans have to build more businesses within the Capitol than the Democrats?
I’m sorry, but this buffoon is just stringing two words together that the Republicans like and hoping it means something to someone.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:55 pmTaliBrand?
May 4th, 2009 at 1:55 pm100% daily dose of vitamins, minerals, jingoism, corporate welfare, and religious bigotry. Artificially flavored with artificial tax cuts.
He uses a lot of words to say nothing.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:56 pmThaddeus McCotter?
I say, this lanky joe can stand for a little rebranding himself.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:56 pmPerhaps, since I’m not an American, my view is simplistic as to what the Republican Party needs to do.
Get more in tune with the desires of the population as a whole. Pandering to the wealthy and/or evangelicals might work in some states, but not enough to win. If you paid attention to the remaining citizens, you might get some where.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:57 pmBut since they’re using code words like “insurgency” perhaps it would be best to wiretap all the Repubs.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:57 pmWhen talking with Repukes about Democrats…
…ask them, “What has a Republican done that has helped the Country? Name ONE thing….I’ll wait.”
They usually answer, “Bush kept us safe.” Totally ignoring that he didn’t.
Morons.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:02 pmI guess it is true that the Republicans have no new ideas if they’re wanting to use the Taliban as a “model”. They’ve been doing that for the past 10 years.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:03 pmHow is this for re-branding…
“Republicans. The Taliban of the US Congress.”
May 4th, 2009 at 2:08 pm“Entrepreneur insurgency” has about as much value as GDumbya’s “compassionate conservativism” . . . that is, zero value.
It’s just another one of the republicans’ penchant for putting two intriguing, random and meaningless words together in the frantic hope that they will ignite public support.
They can’t help it. It’s just what they do. After all, they have no ideas and have proven time and again that they can’t lead or govern competently. This is all they have left.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:08 pmCaption:
Hair Club for Men candidate
¶ AIO
May 4th, 2009 at 2:09 pmPol Pot led an entrepuneurial insurgency of a sort. History is full of entrepuneurs who’ve used the political process to release the animal spirits in us all. This sounds like a winning strategy, legal too.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:11 pmCanadian Paul Says:
“…Get more in tune with the desires of the population as a whole… If you paid attention to the remaining citizens, you might get some where.”
May 4th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Supposedly a bunch of the Republican ‘leaders’ are going on a ‘listening tour’ to get in touch with what Americans really care about. I have a feeling it’s going to work out about as well as when the company that Wayne and I work for brought in consultants to find out what could be improved around the company. So they paid $10,000 to these two Bobs to tell them what we had been telling them for years – that we needed to improve communication from the top down to the other departments. Our bosses, of course, proceeded to completely ignore the results.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:16 pmCanadian Paul Says:
Get more in tune with the desires of the population as a whole. Pandering to the wealthy and/or evangelicals might work in some states, but not enough to win. If you paid attention to the remaining citizens, you might get some where.
The problem with simply pandering to the population, as Arlen Specter has been trying to do, is that bending to the desires of the majority is not what parties tend to do. The GOP has its standards so solidly set in place that reinventing itself would corrupt its foundation. After all, they aren’t “conservatives” for nothing; changing is such a liberal thing.
Right now, the GOP would be wise to…well, to not make any huge blunders. It seems that’s all it took for the Democrats to regain control–let the opposition dig their own grave.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:16 pmWhat’s next? The repuglicans gonna solicit funds to buy an army of mercenaries to lay a siege and rout all the Democrats from the Capital and DC? What a bunch of sore losers!
May 4th, 2009 at 2:26 pmYay! They fixed the “Recommends” function! I was able to recommend a Zooey post.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:33 pm.
Again, they’re adopting the terms used to describe the Iraq quagmire?
I though America was busy fighting an insurgency…
… Great. Now the G(no)P want that title.
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May 4th, 2009 at 2:54 pmBy enterpreneurial insurgency, I believe they are referring to pushing small businesses iniatives, and then business owners in turn will put pressure on the administration to push business-friendly alternatives to current policies. But it’s a poor choice of wording.
May 4th, 2009 at 3:01 pmSorry, make that “initiatives.”
May 4th, 2009 at 3:02 pmHow about a free-market blitzkrieg?
May 4th, 2009 at 3:03 pmYes, please do use the term insurgents to describe yourselves, and We the People will show you just how much we appreciate and support radical, fundamentalist, extremist insurgents.
A Democratic operative working undercover couldn’t write the GNOP’s talking points any better.
PEACE
May 4th, 2009 at 3:04 pmThe only new ideas the GOP has are slogans for how they will oppose anything the Dems do. New ways of saying Party of NO.
May 4th, 2009 at 3:06 pmThey don’t need to rebrand, they need to disband.
May 4th, 2009 at 3:19 pmQuestion: What sort of ‘health’ insurance coverage do we pay for for these elites? Is it just coverage for them individually, or for the whole famn damily?
Does anyone know?
May 4th, 2009 at 3:20 pmHow about them being a ‘responsible legislative caucus, with an eye toward providing a loyal opposition’?
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAH! I almost forgot, these are the Publicans we’re talkin about…
May 4th, 2009 at 3:54 pmI can’t wait for them to show up for work in black pajamas!
May 4th, 2009 at 3:54 pmThe GOP under Bush invented the term “insurgency” to describe enemies who attack the U.S. So it seems fitting the Repubs are now using the label to describe themselves.
May 4th, 2009 at 4:01 pmThe Khmer Rougeican Party
May 4th, 2009 at 4:32 pmAnything to make the popularly elected Democratic party look like an illegal invasion.
May 4th, 2009 at 5:12 pmI live in McCotter’s district and voted for him once. Will never vote for him again. I am sick of whining Republicans who offer no solutions to the real problems facing Americans – jobs, credit, health care, education, etc.
May 4th, 2009 at 5:51 pmI THANK
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