2010 Midterm Elections Inspire New GOP Strategy

CQ Politics :

House Republicans are devising a political platform -- informally dubbed "Ten for '10"-- to better position their party for the 2010 midterm elections -- a moniker oddly reminiscent of the game plan Speaker Nancy Pelosi used to mount the Democratic takeover in 2006.

Several senior Republicans said the party would draft a policy agenda that stylistically -- certainly not ideologically -- mirrors the half-dozen policy objectives that Pelosi, D-Calif., unveiled as the "Six for '06" platform before that year's midterms.

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Comments

[moveyourimage]

Ah.... the collective ingenuity of the GOP. They wouldn't recognize an original idea if it was standing in front of them.

[dimplesmile7]

If you have no new ideas, steal some. - Racist Nation Committee (RNC)

[rf dude]

Mebbe the " B-one for Bo-ner" plan (or " B-1 for Bo-hner ")...

[LeftLeanWing]

But I remember that when the Dems came up with the 6 for 06 ---- at the time it was being hailed as copying from the (R) playbook that yielded the Contract On America.

[winnie47]

It was Contract WITH America, not Contract ON America. Contract On America sounds like a mob hit. Although, with Rethugs, I guess anything's possible.

[alice09]

As usual, no ideas of their own.
Maybe it's too much tanning bed?
Maybe it's the fact that when you are totally obsessed with obstructing and trying to bring down others, you just cannot be creative, you just cannot think.

[mummblemouth]

10 for 10

1. Non-whites only account for 3/5 a person for the purposes of the census.
2. Repeal women's suffrage.
3. Take r.pe ofF the books as a crime.
4. Establish the courts as Christian fundamentalist bodies of law as according to the new 'conservative bible.'
5. Have no more than one sane representative for every 5 Bachmanns.
6. Repeal medicare and medicaid
7. Complete the privatization of the military, prisons and law enforcement.
8. Abolish minimum wage, the forty hour work week and child labor laws.
9. Invade Canada because they are socialist swine.
10. Outlaw abortion and mandate capital punishment for all states.

[winnie47]

WOW. The RNC will be green with envy at YOUR list......

[CoronaDischarge]

You can steal the plays from the best football team too, but if you don't have the personnel to execute them ...

Stealing the name for the older Democratic strategy, well all I can think is that imitation is flattery. With less than 1 in 5 self identifying themselves as a Republican, I'd say these Republicans have some high hopes, rather like a flea climbing an elephant's leg with the idea of sex in mind.

[Duppy]

Hey. They are stealing from the J. Leno show

[winnie47]

....who stole it from Letterman (Top 10 List)

[Grannysue]

The GOP who took the country to the edge of another great depression are going to give us ten reasons why their better for the economy, get the popcorn ready folks this is the biggest oxymoron in history, i can't wait to hear "their plan"?

[msgirlintn]

Tax cuts. That's their answer to everything. Tax Cuts. Exactly how does that help unemployed people?

[HST]

"GOP Steals From Dem Playbook For 2010 Elections"

You could crop that headline to "GOP Steals"

[PACOLLEGEGIRL]

Kinda like that budget proposal that had NO numbers...­But somehow that dam liberal media just forgot to get all over it.

[DocSyracuse]

10 for '10, 6 for '06...they­'re both lame.

[austin4]

The GOP, is out of Ideas, and showing their lack of plain old common sense.....­..does the phase "Lame Brain", mean anything to you?

[DocSyracuse]

Yeah- I'm not particularly impressed with the GOP right now. Nor am I impressed with the Dem-controlled congress. Plenty of lameness to go around.

[jjgg5]

Watch the documentary film, "Outrage", that is showing on HBO this month. The film profiles prominent, elected, Republican officials who publicly denounce homosexuality and gay rights while they, themselves, are closeted and and practicing homosexuals. It's the zenith of Republican hypocrisy and reaction formation.

[austin4]

And True,,,a lot of the Republican Congressman, and Senators,,are flaming,,,,and some can't hide that fact. Old Gay men.

[msgirlintn]

Thanks Jigg, I just got HBO this weekend and I just set it to tape.

[austin4]

The Republican Party, Not only the Party of "Just Say NO".... also the Party of "NO IDEAS". We're moving closer to a one party system. One party is committing "POLITICAL SUIC IDE" , (Republican Party)

[PACOLLEGEGIRL]

Well, I'm sure Fox will have their script pretty soon, if not already.

[swengnikaerb]

Fox used to get their "news" directly from the White House and the GOP.

Now the GOP gets their talking points directly from Uncle Ruppie....­.interesti­ng....