Videos: The Blathersphere attacks
posted at 9:01 am on June 26, 2007 by Bryan
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A couple of good negative ads turn up today. Here’s Freedom Folks, with ominous attack ad guy on the mic, taking on Trent Lott:
Senators: More pain is on the way if you vote for cloture.
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If we allow the shamnesty bill to pass, then at the end of the day all of the brave souls that died on Iwo, Normandy etc. will have died for Mexico.
TheSitRep on June 26, 2007 at 9:07 AM
The SC ad was good.
Going to be a rip roarin day. Party hat on one side of my desk, black arm band on the other. Hurry up 11:30.
Limerick on June 26, 2007 at 9:13 AM
If cloture passes I hope HA got the extra bandwidth reserved for the 3000+ comment thread it will generate.
Limerick on June 26, 2007 at 9:15 AM
Sure congresscritters don’t take the blogs seriously now, but wait until they get a load of these amateur youtube campaign ads.
That’s right, boys, you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
e-pirate on June 26, 2007 at 9:15 AM
Lets hope the United States soccer victory over the Mexican Nationals in Chicago last weekend was a good omen. I’m off to jam some phone lines. 2 to 1
sonnyspats1 on June 26, 2007 at 9:17 AM
We’ve got less than a year and 5 months before the 2008 elections, but less than a year before the primaries. Those who don’t think they’ll have to face a primary challenge will probably bank on the public forgetting about this whole debacle and vote for cloture. The others, however, have got to be wondering about their future, especially if they’re in an early primary.
kayawanee on June 26, 2007 at 9:28 AM
These guys are frigging unbelievable. I guess they must all have walled estates that they plan to retire to.
I mean can you imagine running into these dipsticks in your community in about 10 or 15 years.
How can the public forget, all you’re going to need to jog your memory is to look around.
there it is on June 26, 2007 at 9:35 AM
I like the SC ad for obvious resident reasons. I was looking over Cindy’s, sorry Lindsey’s Fact vs. myth on the immigration bill and noticed this:
With facts like that I guess I have no choice but to support this piece of crap. Wow. Is that a good fact or bad fact.
Source:http://lgraham.senate.gov/
sunny on June 26, 2007 at 9:40 AM
Even though I live in hopelessly blue Massachusetts, I am reaching out to any RINO on the fence with this and informing them that I am a card carrying Republican since Reagan’s first campaign, (literally, not figuratively) and I’m in the top 10% income bracket. Should this bill pass and you vote for it I commit to you that I will end my contributions to the GOP and use those funds to ensure your replacement in the next election cycle.
I encourage ALL others who care about this country to take similar actions to let these representative know they WILL be held accountable.
Alden Pyle on June 26, 2007 at 9:45 AM
Watched a replay of a speech by Pres. Bush, on C_Span, redefining the word amnesty. What I heard was “Amnesty is paying a fine for being here illegally.” Trying to redefine amnesty at the last minute, is getting eerily close to what “is” is.
captivated_dem on June 26, 2007 at 9:47 AM
I am beyond reasonable discussion of the issue and would happily
take part inenjoy news footage of a mob scene protest in Washington, complete with 1 million angry voters, flying bricks, broken windows, screaming Senate office workers, horrified newsmen (being trampled), overwhelmed and shocked riot police, an emergency press conference by the President urging calm, handwringing pleas from MSNBC for the safety of the illegal alien children, reports on NR that Graham, Lott and Martinez were in hiding at a secure location underground, and general anarchy.(sigh)
Voting for people who will represent the will of the people in the greatest deliberative body in the world seems more civilized and contructive, but that doesn’t seem to be working…
Jaibones on June 26, 2007 at 9:55 AM
Just came across The Capitolist:
amerpundit on June 26, 2007 at 9:57 AM
We got all excited about Sir Tancelot last week. Does anyone have any sense about what the House will do with this junk? NR reports that the House GOPrs are making a vain and pointless resolution today criticizing the Senate bill.
Is that all we got?
Jaibones on June 26, 2007 at 10:02 AM
“…with ominous attack ad guy
on the mictalking into a large metal garbage can….”Does that actually mean crossings are down or does it mean that the Border Patrol has been instructed not to do, or is afraid to do, its job?
eeyore on June 26, 2007 at 10:07 AM
These ads are great, but what has struck me this morning is this:
Paris Hilton release – newsworthy 50+ times since 6:00a
Jessie Davis murder – 30+ revisits
Lake Tahoe fire – 15 revisits
Cloture vote and – 0
those Senators still on the fence
Fox News Channel………..priceless!
I guess instead of “One Night In Paris”, today should be known as “One Day On Paris”.
silenced majority on June 26, 2007 at 10:15 AM
If this bill passes the GOP is dead in the water for 08. Sure we will get new faces in the GOP in 08, but in the minority party once again. The country is wary of us enough as it is, they won’t forgive us for this bill passing.
Long live the Queen! (just practicing)……..
Limerick on June 26, 2007 at 10:16 AM
If I was a South Carolinian, and against the Amnesty bill, I would be furious with Sen. Graham. He&*, I’m an Ohioan and I am furious with Sen. Graham! To be called bigots because we are against a deeply flawed bill with serious ramifications for future generations of Americans, is a tremendously offensive.
Qzsusy on June 26, 2007 at 10:25 AM
Huh? Dude, you need to revisit the vote counts and look at the Senators with the (D) next to their name. Nearly all of the opposition is from the GOP; this is a Democrat bill, with disappointing support from the White House and a dozen Republicans.
Jaibones on June 26, 2007 at 10:32 AM
I’m so sick of Goober Lindsey Graham. He’s the most nauseating man in the Senate today and that says a lot. How this pathetic turd ever got elected to anything above street sweeper is beyond me. The guy is a joke. He’s the one Senator conservatives need to make an example of. Get him out of office at any cost. I might even move to South Carolina myself and vote against him.
Frank Nitti on June 26, 2007 at 10:43 AM
It’ll be signed by a republican president. That is all that matters.
Remember, during the 90’s, house republicans forced clinton to sign a budget that balanced the budget. Clinton got the credit.
That’s how it works. This is a republican bill.
lorien1973 on June 26, 2007 at 10:54 AM
Didn’t several GOP congressmen loose their seats to Dems “running to the right” of them on this issue, as in needing to be tougher on illegals?
While we have a year and 5 months left, these guys deserve some serious challenges in the primaries, by people who take border security and illegal immigration seriously.
Bigfoot on June 26, 2007 at 10:55 AM
It’s just possible that people will see the advantage to electing politicians like those who consistently oppose the amnesty bill. I hope the good guys go out and campaign for another Contract with America… Could this be an opportunity to bring back the Newt Gang…?
Rugged Individual on June 26, 2007 at 11:00 AM
Do you think the UK would take us back?
Can we become a colony of Australia? Kind of like the Coral Sea Islands, only bigger.
Nosferightu on June 26, 2007 at 11:01 AM
Unless you draw a paycheck from the RNC, you appear to be displaying an identity problem.
I vote Republican because I’m a citizen of conservative convictions, and the GOP is the party most likely to represent those views. In recent years, however, they’ve become simply the lesser of two evils, and with the behavior on display in the Senate in regard to this amnesty fiasco, that distinction is growing dimmer by the moment. I am not the GOP, and I suspect, neither are you.
(Like your screen name, by the way.)
Nichevo on June 26, 2007 at 11:02 AM
12-20 million people can’t be wrong.
Or is it really 30 million?
It’ll be 100 million if this slithers through.
Your representatives -doing the job no sane American would do.
profitsbeard on June 26, 2007 at 11:03 AM
lorien1973 on June 26, 2007 at 10:54 AM
Nonsense. The credit will go to Bush and the Democrats.
Jaibones on June 26, 2007 at 11:05 AM
Of course Bush and the Dems will get the credit, in the media. GW might even go down in our culturally-sensitive history books as the American savior of Mexico, (once the “chimpHitler” designation fades away).
But what of the GOP base? Where will the resentment go? How long can the base be motivated by voting against Democrats, instead of for Republicans? My guess is that resentment will morph into apathy in ‘08.
Nichevo on June 26, 2007 at 11:30 AM
Throw ‘da bums’ out next election, if not sooner. Great video again from Bryan. Well Done!
countywolf on June 26, 2007 at 11:39 AM
We Oklahomans have given you Inhofe and Coburn and the toughest illegal immigrant bill of any state. More we cannot do.
Renae on June 26, 2007 at 12:26 PM
I agree, and I don’t disagree with Limerick completely. Clinton got credit for the welfare bill passing, even after vetoing it twice, because he is an excellent politician, and actively sought credit for it. This is not a compliment in my worldview.
I believe Bush will seek credit, until it is more obviously a national disaster. Then he will hang around in Midland and tell reporters to go f**k themselves through the barbed wire fence.
The GOP Senators that signed on will all soon be ex-Senators, and making the real money as lobbyist scum, as noted above.
Jaibones on June 26, 2007 at 12:36 PM
And my cousin will have had his ribcage blown off in Faluja for nothing too.
srhoades on June 26, 2007 at 1:03 PM
We need to be fair and balanced here. These ads are so one sided. We need to hear the other side. We need . . attack adds against some Dems too. :)
- The Cat
P.S. Someone should mash up the Race Card/Flag thing with Graham, Chertoff, Etc.
MirCat on June 26, 2007 at 2:50 PM
I just hope someone with some sense can do something in congress about this POS. I’m late commenting on this, so can’t really add anything new. Just very disappointed in a lot of people. Did like the ads though. Like to see some creativity when these folks are up for re-election.
PowWow on June 26, 2007 at 4:26 PM
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