Blunt Talk: “Make The Democrats Be Democrats”
November 13, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Rep. Roy Blunt, who’s running for House Minority Whip, outlined an intriguingly aggressive strategy for the next two years in his just-concluded blogger conference call (organized by the truth laid bear.)
He repeatedly mentioned Chet Edwards and Heath Shuler, who hail from conservative districts, as examples of Democratic congressmen who should be held accountable for voting one way in Washington and talking up the other way back home.
“Agreeing with the White House when it’s appropriate and fighting the White House when it’s not,” he put it. “Maximum pressure” on them, he advocated.
Blunt looked for the day when “conservative ideas and conservative values are once again dominating the work of the Congress.” To do it: “Define Democrats the next two years. … Make the Democrats be Democrats … Defining who they are as real Democrats in Washington. … Put the Democrats on the spot and define the difference”
Blunt seemed to have hit sights set squarely on Democrats like the former Redskins quarterback from North Carolina: “Vote after vote create problems for people like Heath Shuler. … Our best opportunity to take back the majority is the first re-election,” in 2008.
Will House Republicans embrace this offensive? We’ll know when they vote this Friday.
Amanda Huggenkiss said,
November 13, 2006 @ 5:13 pm
He’s one to talk. He’s the guy who gave the speech at Heritage defending earmarks:
“In fact, the voting records of Boehner and Blunt are nearly identical to Pence’s and Shadegg’s. The difference between them was demonstrated last Thursday when Blunt went to the Heritage Foundation to campaign for his retention as whip. He delivered a defense of earmarking, echoing the House appropriators’ claim that the elimination of earmarks would do “nothing but shift funding decisions from one side of Pennsylvania Ave. to the other.”
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2006/11/13/stupid_party_decides
Paul A'Barge said,
November 14, 2006 @ 10:33 am
Agreeing with the White House when it’s appropriate and fighting the White House when it’s not
Hm, just like Agreeing with Conservatives when it’s appropriate and fighting Conservatives when it’s not.
I don’t get Blunt banging on DHIMMIcRATs for doing the same thing they’ve been doing since 1994.
A pox on both their houses.