House Republicans Line up to Pay Tribute To President George Bush’s Record, Seriously
DCCC Press:
According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, 68 percent of Americans disapprove of the job President Bush is doing. Flying in the face of public opinion, House Republicans are gathering tonight at their President's Dinner to "pay a final tribute to George W. Bush and his presidency."
Senator John McCain won't be at the celebratory dinner and the American people certainly won't be celebrating President's Bush's dismal economic record. That leaves Congressional Republicans as perhaps the only group in America who will enthusiastically celebrate President Bush's record of:
- Higher Gas Prices - When Bush took office the cost of a gallon of gas was $1.47, today a gallon of gas is $4.08. [Fuel Gauge report.]
- Higher Unemployment - When Bush took office the unemployment rate was 4.9%, today it is 5.6%. [Department of Labor]
- More Americans Without Health Insurance - When Bush took office, there were 39.8 million Americans without health insurance. Today, there are more than 47 million Americans without health insurance. [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf]
"What exactly are House Republicans celebrating about President Bush's legacy - gas prices reaching record highs, more home foreclosures, higher unemployment, or more Americans with out health insurance?" asked Jennifer Crider, Communications Director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "Toasting to a weak economy and the status quo shows just how out touch House Republicans are with the economic squeeze facing middle class families. No wonder House Democrats have a 15 point advantage over Republicans in recent polling."
Background:
- According to the Washington Post-ABC News poll, release yesterday, if the election for the U.S. House of Representatives were being held today, 52 percent would vote for the Democratic candidate while only 37 percent would vote for the Republican candidate. According to the same poll, 68 percent disapprove of the job President Bush is doing and 29 percent approve of the job he's doing.
- This years President's Dinner will be "especially memorable as we pay a final tribute to George W. Bush and his presidency." [Congressman Jeb Hensarling, NRCC.org]
- "Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will not attend President Bush's fundraising dinner for congressional candidates... ‘Maybe he found a better dinner?' Republican Study Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas), chairman of the event for the NRCC, said." [The Hill, 6/5/08]
Good job Repubs!!! The whole world is proud of you!!
Well gee, it looks like the only thing that has gone down during the last eight years is the President’s approval rating.
The way the Democratic House has been “compromising” on the FISA bill it may as well be in Bush’s cheerleading squad. I won’t be contributing to the DCCC until they stop doing the President’s work.
Thanks for ripping up the Constitution.
You can forget about sending me any more requests for contributions.
Hoyer, Pelosi etal are cowards and traitors. The DCCC will not see one dime from me after this FISA capitulation. Furthermore I intend to financially support ANYONE who opposes Hoyer and Pelosi in their next elections.
The democratic leadership is made up of spineless, worthless career politicians. I am done with them and the DCCC until the leadership is changed. I want a party that will uphold the Constitution and not roll over to Mr. 29% on FISA. Tell Steny and nancy to resign
That’s nothing, the Dem leaders lined up to endorse Bush’s greatest hits early Friday. Good job Dems, way to kowtow to the great and powerful Bush! Way to sell out your supporters in favor of access and privelege.
Please stop sending me requests for money. If I have to have craven representatives I’d rather not contribute to them.
This wasn’t very good timing - a plea for funds and an abysmal capitulation to the Telcos and the Bushies.
Pelosi and the rest of the cowardly Democrats have abdicated their responsibility to the Constitution and the American people.
They are just as guilty as Bush.
In the whole planet people know that the U.S.A. at present is a disaster thanks to Mr. George Bush, that he is an
inept, a great disgrace to this country and to the world.
I am sure Mr. Obama will be our next president because God
will decide it, it is impossible to continue in this
terrible bad economical situation, this is a scandal
and the obsolete of Mr. McCain will follow Bush’s paths.
The 99% of people with gray substance in their
brains support the change we need and
wish it with desperation.
Thanks God this disgrace soon will disappear.
While Bush/Cheney have been disastrous for our nation (and the world), the Democratic congress has been complicit by funding the Iraq occupation, approving FISA legislation, etc., etc. I will contribute only to individual candidates who have shown a willingness to respect the constitution and hold the criminals accountable.
You had better get someone to look at the technical apparatus of the contribution part of your website. I tried to enter a contribution to the Obama e-mail and also on this website. I kept getting the message “We cannot process your contribution - please check with your credit card co.”
I did and they had no record of the contribution request coming in. If you want money from me, you had better get this fixed!!!!
I was a party to one of the ACLU lawsuits brought about through egregious actions by the NSA, AT&T;, and Verizon to abrogate our privacy and civil rights, and our number one Constitutional right of Free Speech. The Democrats in Congress just shredded that initiative to write criminal wrongs and forever alienated me and most Democratic regulars.
This after approving a $126 billion arms bill that sends our nation into further debt for no good purpose.
Of course, smug in the situation that you are the only alternative to total incompetence, you make a nice administrative party to cozy the American people—making nice on the one hand (though doing little to assuage their needs) while ripping them with the other.
I can’t contribute to people who kow-tow—totally unnecessarily, which I can neither abide nor understand—to the worst, weakest President in history and to giant corporations whose money you don’t need to win. Raise your own funds.
I see I’m not the only one disappointed in the performance of the Democrats since they gained a majority in the House. I’ve been waiting for a reason to donate, especially since I’m not loaded with surplus money. What I see instead is a party that either refuses to learn or is incapable of learning the lessons of losing in 2000 and 2004 and won’t stand up for what most Americans know to be right. I won’t donate another cent until I see something other than lame rhetoric.
P.S. Get rid of the unnecessary scripts running on the website here…
I too have been wondering when the Dem. leadership would grow a spine and stand up against the Bush administration’s proposals. Anyway, let’s all applaud the trillion-dollar deficit, never-ending “war,” loss of our civil rights, raping and pillaging of the environment, and increased profits for the big-money Rep. contributors. We’ll miss Georgie - after all, who will the late night comics have as the butt of all their jokes????
Yes, we’ll all certainly miss George, but at least we still have that great Democratic leadership in the House, especially Nancy Pelosi; she and her fellow Democrats all seem more than ready to step in and fill the vacuum George will leave. I mean, what more could the Republicans ask for than to have the noble Ms. Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues on their side, rushing to approve that wonderful new FISA bill? Why support the DNC when we can support the Republicans in Congress and get the same result.
How *DARE* the DCCC solicit me for campaign contributions after endorsing illegal spying. How DARE you solicit me after giving a free pass to voracious corporate interests who accomplished the crimes. How DARE you solicit me after funding this illegal war yet again. How DARE you solicit me after taking impeachment off the table.
Millions of lifelong Democrats like myself worked hard to put our party back in power, and the DCCC betrayed every one of us. The DCCC took money we sweated blood to give and then squandered it on cowards who time after time vote to perpetuate the same crimes and immoral government practices that the GOP practices.
When Pelosi, Hoyer, and their ilk are GONE—when the Democrat party shows the discipline to vote the DEMOCRATIC agenda—then, and only then, will I be receptive to contributing to the DCCC.
When the DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY votes, AS A MAJORITY to (a) stop funding the war, (b) close GITMO, (c) stop illegal government spying, and (d) hold Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, et al, responsible for their crimes against humanity, then—AND ONLY THEN—come talk to me.
Is this clear enough?
I was planning to contribute to the DCCC for the first time last week. Lucky for me I was out of town so I was able to see how disappointed I would have been if I had contributed to the wimpcrats. Today I am only angry, instead of angry and poorer, so I count myself as lucky. After the Senate votes I will decide if I am going to make another contribution to Obama.
The oath of office for all Congressmen and Senators says they swear to protect the constitution of the US from all enemies both foreign and domestic. That is all, it doesn’t say I swear to sell out the American people to both foreign and domestic enemies for campaign contributions and reelection at all costs (although I do think all republican candidates are required to at a secret ceremony). Welcome to their club wimpcrats.