[UPDATED]
MoveOn.org is shoving Bush's escalation of the Iraq war down the Republican Party's throat. The group is running attack ads against the senators who blocked debate on the escalation.
The liberal organization has already scripted and is now producing the ads to run on CNN. As of Tuesday afternoon, airtime also had been purchased on local television stations in Kansas, New Hampshire, Oregon and Virginia.I'd like to see some right wing group figure out a way to run ads in support of the escalation. More people need to die - Vote Republican.
The ads specifically target those states’ senators: Sam Brownback, John Sununu, Gordon Smith, and John Warner, respectively. Sununu, Smith and Warner face re-election in 2008; Brownback, a presidential candidate, is up again in 2010.
The ads also take aim at Sens. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, John Voinovich of Ohio, Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Dole and McConnell both face 2008 challenges.
The GOP's continued slavish devotion to George W. Bush is inexplicable. I don't understand why the party has decided that Bush's legacy is worth the electoral disaster that awaits them two years from now. Twenty-one of the 33 senate seats up for contention in 2008 are held by Republicans. If they thought 2006 was bad, just wait. By blocking debate on the escalation, the GOP just took ownership of it. The American people are not going to fall back in love with the occupation of Iraq, and they will know exactly whom to punish for sending more of our troops to die in a civil war that they have no power to stop.
MoveOn has one national ad, and several that target individual senators. See them here.
UPDATE
I found the national ad on YouTube:
2 comments:
the slavish devotion is because they know something that we don't. not one thing has changed and there is no fear of this congress- why? these people know something that we don't-- and i have a feeling that we are in big trouble.
My friends look at me through narrowed eyes when I say this, but I cannot believe that Bush and Cheney have consolidated power in the executive branch only to hand it over to someone else in 2008. It would defy everything that we know about human nature and the corrupting influence of absolute power.
Cheney has sought to establish the Office of the Vice President as an entity that is under the authority to neither the executive branch nor the legislative branch, and he has made no secret of his contempt for the judiciary.
Certainly, it is more difficult with a Democratic congress, but I would not be surprised if Bush and Cheney seize upon some catastrophic event to justify remaining in office beyond the expiration of this term in 2009. Conspiracy theory? Absolutely. But with their track record, it is by no means out of the realm of possibility.
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