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September 23, 2010

White House Attacks GOP 'Pledge to America'

Topics: Political News and commentaries

The WH just took one up the 'you know what' ...

... so it does the only thing it can do - attack the GOP's plan - because the Democrats have nothing like it -- all they have are really bad numbers:

Politico:

The White House immediately attacked the House Republicans' election agenda rollout Wednesday evening, claiming the 21-page "Pledge to America" plan will "take America back to the same failed economic policies that caused this recession."

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, writing on the White House blog, said Republicans "doubled down on the same ideas that hurt America's middle class," listing tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, tax hikes for the middle class, "cutting rules and oversight" for financial services, health care and oil, all while adding to the deficit.

Republicans would counter that they are trying to cut taxes across the board and save taxpayer dollars by a federal hiring freeze and caps on spending. The agenda will be formally unveiled at an event in Sterling, Va., Thursday, in a roll-out reminiscent of the 1994 Contract with America.

Pfeiffer notes that the document does not mention education, clean energy, protecting Social Security and bolstering infrastructure.

"This is the same agenda that caused the deepest recession since the Great Depression, costing 8 million jobs, wiping out trillions in family wealth and setting middle-class families back," Pfeiffer wrote. "Instead of a pledge to the American people, Congressional Republicans made a pledge to the big special interests to restore the same economic ideas that benefited them at the expense of middle-class families."

Don't these guys ever get tired of the same ole class warfare?

Is the GOP's plan perfect? Absolutely not - it's got lots of shortfalls. But it's the first step in the right direction we've seen in the last 20-plus months. And as Joseph Lawler points out at American Thinker, although the "Pledge" has no specifics about necessary legislation, it has plenty of rhetoric on the direction of the country, as well as a Tea Party-style "full-throated endorsement of conservative grassroots populism, casting Washington elites as the problem and the Constitution as the solution."

The next step comes on November 2nd when the GOP implement the pledged with the appropriate legislation. In the meanwhile, the pledge serves as a campaign tool to build upon.

(Thanks to Weasel Zippers for the image and the hat tip)

Posted by Richard at September 23, 2010 10:04 AM

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