First NRCC Ad Attacks Dem Over Wall Street Bailout Support, Despite 91 Republican Votes

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is out with its first independent expenditure ad of the season, taking aim at Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-IN). The ad, according to Politico, paints Donnelly as "a pawn of Democratic leaders" and is just the first effort in the committee's plan to "invest $22 million in 41 districts across the nation." What's interesting about the ad is that it goes after Donnelly for voting for legislation that many Republicans also supported.

The ad says Donnelly voted with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) 88 percent of the time, including on the "Obama-Pelosi health care plan," Wall Street bailout, and the "$800 billion stimulus that failed."

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One hundred seventy-two Democrats, including Donnelly, did vote for the Wall Street bailout. Ninety-one Republicans, however, also voted for it, including House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and NRCC Chair Pete Sessions (Tex.) In fact, On Sept. 29, Boehner took to the House floor and "became emotional as he urged his party to muster the will to approve the package":

BOEHNER: These are the kind of votes that we have to look into our soul, and understand, and ask ourselves the question, "What is in the best interest of our county?" I believe what's in the best interest of our country, as I stand here today, is to vote for this bill.

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Sixty-eight Democrats and 108 Republicans eventually voted against the bill. The New York Times reported, "After his members overwhelmingly voted against it, he [Boehner] tried to shift the blame to a partisan speech delivered on the floor just before the vote by Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker."

The 30-second ad started running yesterday in the South Bend media market and will be on air for a week.

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Comments

[Sassys]

06:09 AM on 09/08/2010

Boehner really is a bad, bad person. He has not one redeeming quality. Not one! How does he do that? I mean does he just roll out of bed every day and say to himself "Self today I am going to blame Pelosi for all the stuff I say...heh, heh, heh...That will show em"? He no longer can be called a flip flop...nope he has earned the name Clog!

[rascalcat]

12:26 AM on 09/08/2010

The GOP and hypocrisy walk hand in hand, like lovers that use each other and have little respect for each other.

[stape45]

12:04 AM on 09/08/2010

I've heard all the doom and gloom. I've read tons of political doublespeak and empty rhetoric against the Democrats, and it hasn't changed my mind in the slightest. I'm still the same Dem that I have always been. As long as the Repubs are geared for the nation's downfall, all I CAN be is a Dem. It's unpatriotic these days, to be anything else.

[stape45]

12:06 AM on 09/08/2010

Perhaps I should say that it seems unpatriotic to ME, to be anything else.

[Truth In Voting]

12:00 AM on 09/08/2010

At long last, we're seeing real leadership in Washington. Any fool can claim letting Wall Street go bankrupt would've destroyed America, and any simpleton can rail against the bailout (see Teabagistan). It takes real courage to push for both and condemn both AT THE SAME TIME.

Surely, no clear-thinking American would ever want to see a repeat of the unpopular $800 billion bailout in 2008, which Boehner/McConnell not only voted for but also spearheaded the effort to rush it through both houses Chicken Little style.


But that's irrelevant now, the urgent priority at this point, says Boehner & McConnell, is that voters must defeat Democratic Congressional candidates otherwise it might lead to more bailouts just like the one they so passionately supported less than 2 years ago.

See, Republicans actually HATE the greedy fat cats of Wall Street so much that they insist on giving them everything they want, including throwing the bank-regulating Democrats out of office.

[veritas aequitas]

11:55 PM on 09/07/2010

The Democrats are framing the discussion by saying, "Republicans aren't doing enough for you."

What they are doing is moving the locus of control in America. Americans use to be self-sufficient. Americans once had an assumption that individuals would take care of themselves.

For generations, Democrats have actively tried to convince Americans that the locus of control is external from them as individuals. Dems want you to believe you are a victim of the economy. You are a victim of politics and circumstances. You have no power over your own life, earning power or future. You need the government to plan your retirement. You need the government to create you a job. Foreclosure isn't your fault. Banks, Wall Street, Republicans are all holding you down. It isn't your fault.

In the past, the American culture prized personal responsibility and looked down on the willingness and desire to take without producing more than they consumed.

We have been perverted into feeling like we are powerless. Democrats have stolen the American individual and replaced him with a child. They want adult children to be on their parent’s health insurance until they are 26. They want you to get government assistance for everything.

The Democratic Party plan is to convince adult Americans that they cannot survive without the government helping them, telling them what to eat, what to drive, what light bulbs to buy and who to vote for.

We must stop this paedomorphosis of the American adult

[Sassys]

06:16 AM on 09/08/2010

Wait a sec..didn't you post this on the other post? Are you just reposting the same thing over and over hoping to get some sort of applause? No one liked it on the other link so you tried this one eh? Now I fully expect you to say...but it's a great comment meant to teach the Liberals how to think like me...Sorry it still is not a worthy comment no matter how many times you repeat it.

[tangelan]

08:32 AM on 09/08/2010

Aw, he spent so much time cutting and pasting that.

[Scentedflower]

11:26 PM on 09/07/2010

Pathetic Repubs
Tell us:
Why you want to be elected?
What you can do to improve the economy?
Do you have a strategy to restore jobs in your constituency?
To work effectively with the congress & respectfully with the President, what attributes do you possess?
Do you support term limits?
What mistakes have you made in this campaign?
Just answer 6 questions. That is all I ask.

[dianhow]

10:45 PM on 09/07/2010

Typical GOP Attacks even what they voted for The GOP has 2 faces can not keep track of which face is' talking ' GOP demonized stimulous- then went home and took credit for the good it did - ribbon cutting and all- in their home districts Who can vote for that ?
1981 Reaganomics Amnesty with open borders- tax cuts- Iran contra-
-Bush Cheney 2008 global collaspe 700 BIl TARP bail out
Total disaster - panic - long profit driven wars- fear tactics- mushroom cloud- smoking gun-
GOP created 29 yrs of wealth favoring policies- laws-courts- they run our economy -our
courts- our lives GOP Greenspan and others- led us to global disaster lied us into Iraq -
Thats EVIL Obama = 20 months GOP had 1981 2008 under their reign & policies
Repubs How cam you vote GOP after all that GOP has NOT changed They want to end
Social security - privatize all they can What if Medicare had been privatized when
Wall St collapsed in 2008 ? GOP does not care THINK REASON CHECK FACTS
THEN VOTE FOX BECK PALEN - rUSH + THE RULING CLASS HAVE A VESTED
INTEREST IN CRUSHING OBAMA HE WILL COST THEM MONEY FOR A CHANGE
95 % got a tax cut under Obama !!! he saved GM - its manufacturing jobs
Thats huge

[VikingQuest]

09:41 PM on 09/07/2010

The TARP vote is going to be hanging over a lot of Congresspeople on both sides of the aisle . . . it's a good tool to use against anyone that voted yes.

[dianhow]

10:49 PM on 09/07/2010

Bush Paulson 2008 global - panic there was NO choice but to take drastic action yrs of Reagaanomics Bush Cheeny Greenspan powerful ruling class had already done too much damage Deep depression had to be averted Obama had already taken the lead
in Sept 2008 in Talks about TARP
Even Hank Paulson said ' Obama was very informed - on the ball - while Mccain offered
nothing of value ' will we be duped - fooled- manipulated by lies and fear once again ?
ASK What has GOP done to DESERVE OUR VOTE ????

[kaptaintripps]

09:08 PM on 09/07/2010

Have I stumbled into another galaxy? Is this the HuffPo ReThug Tr0ll site for the Can't Cure Stewpid...?

[epforrester]

08:46 PM on 09/07/2010

3 excellent anti-rethuglican videos to pass around during election time:

Ten types of republicans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocy6AqaIkA4&feature=related

Yes We Klan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_aUVzVihmw

I'm voting republican:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZKD92o5920&feature=related

[OneLiberalLady]

08:14 PM on 09/07/2010

The bank bailout legislation was introduced by George Bush and passed in October 2008, before Obama was even in office. Obama did voice support for it, as did over 90 Republicans in the House.
And although it is popular to criticize the bill, if our financial system had collapsed we would be in a world of hurt now and people would be crying out, Why didn't they do something?

[epforrester]

08:16 PM on 09/07/2010

Blame Obama â„¢

[bannorhill]

08:28 PM on 09/07/2010

Republicans voted it down in the House the first time. If left just to the Republicans the bill never would have passed. We will never know where all that money went. The bill needed safeguards and accountability to protect taxpayers. Instead we got empty promises and a big deficit.

[epforrester]

08:43 PM on 09/07/2010

Not a squeak about that deficit from 2001-2007. Rethugs were just gearing up for their inevitable loss in 2008, asking themselves "How can we spin this chit and blame it on the democrats". Rethuglican lies don't work anymore.

[lightningbolt]

08:04 PM on 09/07/2010

The bailout was a bipartisan robbery. Elected officials should be judged individually on this issue. The main person responsible for the bailout is Bush, who shoved the bailout down our throats with threats of economic collapse and chaos.

[OneLiberalLady]

08:15 PM on 09/07/2010

Maybe he had a point? It's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback, but hard to argue the system wouldn't have collapsed.

[lightningbolt]

07:29 AM on 09/08/2010

It's hard to believe someone who lied us into war. Bush had been using fear and lies to get what he wanted throughout his presidency. His legacy of crime is enough to not believe what he said.

[tangelan]

08:21 PM on 09/07/2010

There goes that "shoved down our throat" metaphor again. You guys like that, huh?

[lightningbolt]

07:30 AM on 09/08/2010

It accurately describes what happened.

[nypapajoe]

07:54 PM on 09/07/2010

IF the corrupt Republicans win the election the ones who will suffer the most will be those on Medicare, social security and the decimated middle class! So think America and don't be swayed by the hate mongering propaganda and allow the corporations, banks and wall St to take complete control of our country! The only ones who will benefit are the rich! You won't!

[tea-party-2010]

07:39 PM on 09/07/2010

Sorry liberals, you made the GOP own every piece of legislation that came out of Washington from 2001-2009 regardless of how many liberals voted for a certain bill. The fact is that you liberals still had the majority and the position to kill this bill and you let it go.

[DavidOH]

07:45 PM on 09/07/2010

Because...it would have been better to let the financial system collapse...and you would now be arguing that the Democrats did nothing.

[OneLiberalLady]

08:16 PM on 09/07/2010

Bush introduced it, sweetie.

[tea-party-2010]

08:32 PM on 09/07/2010

I understand that. What I'm tired of is one side blaming the other and vice versa. This constant bickering gets under my skin.

[azindie]

07:27 PM on 09/07/2010

Let's clarify: W. had nothing to do with the passage of the Community Restoration Act nor the founding of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The CRA and the GSEs certainly contributed to the bubble. As for W's sponsorship of TARP? You forget, this guy was a progressive, so of course he authored a bad bill with zero accountability (think Stimulus) which is SOP for big Gov'ment. Certainly the vast majority of R's that voted for this bill were not conservatives, but progressives. Case in point: my favorite home state Senator John McCain voted for it as well. Nice job by HP to point out yet another example of hypocrisy in our current political duopoly.

[tangelan]

08:24 PM on 09/07/2010

W was a regressive. Don't change the R to a D because you're embarrassed.

[mummblemouth]

09:31 PM on 09/07/2010

LOL...Bush was a progressive? Man, you are delusional, con.