Thomas Veil
Apr 25, 2009, 07:29 AM
[Parenthetical comment: it's been a rough three weeks, watching my mother-in-law get sick and pass away. That's why you haven't heard from me lately. But I'm back.]
Brand Dems socialists says RNC bloc (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21638.html)
By JONATHAN MARTIN | 4/23/09 2:53 PM EDT Updated: 4/24/09 5:23 AM EDT
A conservative faction of the Republican National Committee is urging the GOP to take a harder line against both Democrats and wayward Republicans, drafting a resolution to rename the opposition the “Democrat Socialist Party” and moving to rebuke the three Republican senators who supported the stimulus package.
In an e-mail sent Wednesday to the 168 voting members of the committee, RNC member James Bopp, Jr. accused President Obama of wanting “to restructure American society along socialist ideals.”
“The proposed resolution acknowledges that and calls upon the Democrats to be truthful and honest with the American people by renaming themselves the Democrat Socialist Party,” wrote Bopp, the Republican committeeman from Indiana. “Just as President Reagan’s identification of the Soviet Union as the ‘evil empire’ galvanized opposition to communism, we hope that the accurate depiction of the Democrats as a Socialist Party will galvanize opposition to their march to socialism.”
The resolution, proposed by a committeeman from Washington state, was agreed upon by 16 RNC members from 16 different states and is part of a petition asking RNC Chairman Michael Steele to set a special committee meeting next month when the state chairs meet in Washington, D.C. Okay, here's where I have objections to this:
They're being annoying little pissers by refering to the Democratic party as the Democrat party. But what do you expect from a bunch of Repubicans?
They also know damn well the Democrats aren't socialists, despite what Obama is doing to save the economy.
What I don't mind is them doing is making a big deal about the word "socialism". If they go totally off the deep end and they succeed in this resolution, the end result will probably be the opposite of what they intend: they will make the country more comfortable with the word. After all, a majority of Americans feel the country is moving in the right direction. So by all means, let's associate that with "socialism" and remove the stigma from the word.
Brand Dems socialists says RNC bloc (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21638.html)
By JONATHAN MARTIN | 4/23/09 2:53 PM EDT Updated: 4/24/09 5:23 AM EDT
A conservative faction of the Republican National Committee is urging the GOP to take a harder line against both Democrats and wayward Republicans, drafting a resolution to rename the opposition the “Democrat Socialist Party” and moving to rebuke the three Republican senators who supported the stimulus package.
In an e-mail sent Wednesday to the 168 voting members of the committee, RNC member James Bopp, Jr. accused President Obama of wanting “to restructure American society along socialist ideals.”
“The proposed resolution acknowledges that and calls upon the Democrats to be truthful and honest with the American people by renaming themselves the Democrat Socialist Party,” wrote Bopp, the Republican committeeman from Indiana. “Just as President Reagan’s identification of the Soviet Union as the ‘evil empire’ galvanized opposition to communism, we hope that the accurate depiction of the Democrats as a Socialist Party will galvanize opposition to their march to socialism.”
The resolution, proposed by a committeeman from Washington state, was agreed upon by 16 RNC members from 16 different states and is part of a petition asking RNC Chairman Michael Steele to set a special committee meeting next month when the state chairs meet in Washington, D.C. Okay, here's where I have objections to this:
They're being annoying little pissers by refering to the Democratic party as the Democrat party. But what do you expect from a bunch of Repubicans?
They also know damn well the Democrats aren't socialists, despite what Obama is doing to save the economy.
What I don't mind is them doing is making a big deal about the word "socialism". If they go totally off the deep end and they succeed in this resolution, the end result will probably be the opposite of what they intend: they will make the country more comfortable with the word. After all, a majority of Americans feel the country is moving in the right direction. So by all means, let's associate that with "socialism" and remove the stigma from the word.
