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Rep. Reichert Rocks GOP

News   July 21, 2009 at 10:56 am Josh Feit

Talking Points Memo reports on Rep. Dave Reichert’s (R-WA, 8) effort to get young people involved in GOP politics by using new media.

In this instannce, Reichert played his colleagues a GOP YouTube video spoof of a Lady Gaga’s "Just Dance" video.  The GOP version—attacking the Democrats—is called "Just Tax."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPF9-o-YHGM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.talkingpointsmemo.com%2Flivewire%2F2009%2F07%2Fthe-gops-new-youth-outreach-effort-lady-gaga-parody.php&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]


  • http://carfreeusa.blogspot.com/ Aphorism153

    The setting of this video, UW’s quad and fountain, is funded almost entirely with taxes.

  • http://carfreeusa.blogspot.com Aphorism153

    The setting of this video, UW’s quad and fountain, is funded almost entirely with taxes.

  • http://publicola.net/ Josh Feit

    @1,
    …and if you file a complaint, it might make Morning Fizz.

  • http://publicola.net/ Josh Feit

    @1,
    …and if you file a complaint, it might make Morning Fizz.

  • SuperJew

    Seattle Jew and Lee (now there’s a fun-couple dream team for all seasons) are very upSET with lovable old SuperJew. SuperJew trolls for the truth about bottom feeder Richard Pope, but SJ and Lee — who throw their dirty underwear at each other in public — get in a private snit of indignation and start sharpening their long knives to cut up somebody else for a change. Then they stick their tongues down each other’s throats, jump in their newlywed PopeMobile, and ride away.
    Well, as worldly philosopher Ice-T said, I’m back, motherfuckers. Should of killed me last year.
    ==================
    Please, Babe Magnet Richard Pope, please briefly demobe yourself from the Goldstein-Barnett Axis of Evil’s War on Hutchison. Please tell us if you are the Richard Lamar Pope we know and love.
    And tell us when you were born: 01/01/01? Really?
    And tell us how a hot babe magnet like you, 108 years old, can get it up; is Geritol your secret weapon, old man?
    And tell us about Seattle Municipal Court citations …
    201027133
    200523225
    200309347
    200243099
    200229575
    900932219
    873282313
    (And that other Richard Lamar Pope, d-o-b 18 August 1962. What’s up with him and all those scofflaw citations?)
    ================
    HA REMFs told you that Trick Dick and Kissinger could have ended the Vietnam War in 1969, but they let it draaaaaaag out because they loved the smell of napalm in the morning and because they loved letting people die. Napalm and death are what Republicans are all about.
    Here’s the rest of the story:

    Thanks to continued support for the Vietnam War by the Democratic-controlled Congress, however, American troops were finally withdrawn only in 1973, with the strategic situation no better than it was five years earlier.

    - via Policy Analyst Stephen Zunes, http://www.commondreams.org, 3 December 2006
    ===============
    High above Cayuga’s water/
    There’s an awful smell/
    Some say it’s Cayuga’s waters/
    We know it’s Goldstein.

  • SuperJew

    Seattle Jew and Lee (now there’s a fun-couple dream team for all seasons) are very upSET with lovable old SuperJew. SuperJew trolls for the truth about bottom feeder Richard Pope, but SJ and Lee — who throw their dirty underwear at each other in public — get in a private snit of indignation and start sharpening their long knives to cut up somebody else for a change. Then they stick their tongues down each other’s throats, jump in their newlywed PopeMobile, and ride away.
    Well, as worldly philosopher Ice-T said, I’m back, motherfuckers. Should of killed me last year.
    ==================
    Please, Babe Magnet Richard Pope, please briefly demobe yourself from the Goldstein-Barnett Axis of Evil’s War on Hutchison. Please tell us if you are the Richard Lamar Pope we know and love.
    And tell us when you were born: 01/01/01? Really?
    And tell us how a hot babe magnet like you, 108 years old, can get it up; is Geritol your secret weapon, old man?
    And tell us about Seattle Municipal Court citations …
    201027133
    200523225
    200309347
    200243099
    200229575
    900932219
    873282313
    (And that other Richard Lamar Pope, d-o-b 18 August 1962. What’s up with him and all those scofflaw citations?)
    ================
    HA REMFs told you that Trick Dick and Kissinger could have ended the Vietnam War in 1969, but they let it draaaaaaag out because they loved the smell of napalm in the morning and because they loved letting people die. Napalm and death are what Republicans are all about.
    Here’s the rest of the story:

    Thanks to continued support for the Vietnam War by the Democratic-controlled Congress, however, American troops were finally withdrawn only in 1973, with the strategic situation no better than it was five years earlier.

    - via Policy Analyst Stephen Zunes, http://www.commondreams.org, 3 December 2006
    ===============
    High above Cayuga’s water/
    There’s an awful smell/
    Some say it’s Cayuga’s waters/
    We know it’s Goldstein.

  • JesseMT

    Surely #3 here must be comment of the day. Unless you’re judging for coherence. Or relevance.

  • JesseMT

    Surely #3 here must be comment of the day. Unless you’re judging for coherence. Or relevance.