Democrats Attack Bush-Bachmann Fundraiser

I don't know what the record is for using the phrase "special interest" is in a single press release but I'm certain that this official statement would rank right up there:

The link between Minnesota Republican Congressional Candidate Michele Bachmann and President Bush just keeps getting stronger. Today, the president will join 300 of his special interest friends for a closed press fundraiser to bolster Bachmann's struggling campaign. This follows similar fundraisers with the president's profoundly unpopular vice president in June, his deeply divisive Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove in July, and the leader of the Bush Republicans in Congress, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, in July. (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 6/27/06; AP, 7/07/06; St. Cloud Times, 7/2/06)

Running to replace Republican Congressman Mark Kennedy, who has voted with President Bush 92 percent of the time, Bachmann's decision to use President Bush and his special interest friends to bankroll her campaign shows how out of touch she is with the values and priorities of Minnesota's working families. As a result of the failed leadership and misplaced priorities of the Bush Republicans in Washington, Minnesota has lost 47,600 manufacturing jobs since 2000, family income has fallen $3,382, and the number of Minnesotans who lack health insurance has jumped by 458,000. (BLS, 8/06; CPS, 10/05; KFF 2005)

This dismal record explains why just 36 percent of Minnesotans approve of President Bush's job performance, down 13 points in the last year alone, and why Michele Bachmann has joined the growing list of Republican candidates who want the President's special interest campaign cash , but only if they can get it out of site of the media. (SurveyUSA, 8/14/06)

"Minnesotans know that Michele Bachmann and President Bush are joined at the wallet," said Democratic National Committee spokesman Damien LaVera. "Since she has clearly decided to bankroll her campaign with special interest money from President Bush and the architects of this failed Administration, President Bush can count on Michele Bachmann to be just another Bush Rubberstamp if elected to Congress.

"The last thing Minnesotans need is to replace one Bush Rubberstamp with another. That is why strong Democratic leaders like Patty Wetterling are offering a new direction for Minnesota's working families, one works for a health care system that works for everyone, creates jobs that stay in Minnesota and strengthens retirement security for every American."

Well. You'd think that the DNC would have better writers than that. Then again, considering their intellectual heft, I guess we shouldn't expect alot from them. Frankly, any conservative could come up with something a hundred times more intelligent-sounding and creative that actually drove a specific point home.

Let's take this statement apart:

Today, the president will join 300 of his special interest friends for a closed press fundraiser to bolster Bachmann's struggling campaign.

If the fundraiser was offlimits to the press, how does this person know that there are 300 people there? Or that they're "the president's special interest friends"? How does this person know that most of these people aren't just activists who can afford the contribution? What makes this dim-witted Democrat think that Sen. Bachmann's campaign is struggling? Or is it standard procedure for Democrats to lie about where the races are?

Bachmann's decision to use President Bush and his special interest friends to bankroll her campaign shows how out of touch she is with the values and priorities of Minnesota's working families.

San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi campaigned for Patty Wetterling a couple weeks back but President Bush is the one out of touch with Minnesota's priorities and values? That's insulting. Nancy Pelosi couldn't get elected to statewide office anywhere in America's heartland. George Bush won two national elections, the second time with the most votes in the history of presidential elections. But Pelosi is the mainstream politician in touch with Minnesota's priorities and values?

"The last thing Minnesotans need is to replace one Bush Rubberstamp with another.

Wrong. I've said it before but it's worth repeating. The last thing Minnesota needs is to elect someone who will be Nancy Pelosi's rubberstamp vote. Considering the fact that Patty Wetterling won't tell us where she stands on the issues with any specificity, why should we think that she isn't trying to hide an ultraliberal agenda?

That is why strong Democratic leaders like Patty Wetterling are offering a new direction for Minnesota's working families...

Patty Wetterling a leader? A leader lays out an appealing agenda that people want to follow. Patty Wetterling hasn't come close to laying out an appealing agenda that even a plurality of people want to follow.

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Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:21 AM

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Great post Gary. Good reading and writing.

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