Archive for wrong message at the wrong time

VIDEO: The Romney campaign thinks voters are stupid. Here’s their message.

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Bingo.

President Obama will be cleaning up George W. Bush’s mess for the rest of his time in office, including his second term.

Willard Romney has said he would continue the previous administration’s policies, because, you know, that worked out so well for us under GW.

All Team Romney and his failed party have are Fox talking points and demands that, despite incessant and deliberate GOP obstruction, the president mop up BushCo’s devastating wreckage more quickly.

Republicans have nothing to offer, and the sooner voters get that message, the better.

(Sorry that you have to wade through an ad just to watch a 9 second clip.)

VIDEO: German official retracts Egypt V.P. Suleiman assassination report

Yesterday I posted a breaking news alert from Fox that turned out to be completely wrong. Richard Engel later corrected what turned out to be a rumor that there had been an assassination attempt on Egypt’s new Vice President Suleiman.

Here’s what really happened:

Via CNN:

The German diplomat who said there was an assassination attempt against Egypt’s new vice president has retracted his comments.

“I was led to believe that we had a confirmed report but in fact we didn’t,” Wolfgang Ischinger told CNN, adding the information he received was based on an unsubstantiated source.

Ischinger, the host of the Munich Security Conference, told a plenary session of the meeting that there was an assassination attempt against Omar Suleiman and several people were killed.

Telephone Hour, only with really bad timing.

Senate GOP attacks health care with “Second Opinion”


My initial opinion of the GOP is that they are bald-faced obstructionists who have absolutely nothing to offer, but spend a very long time offering it.

My second opinion of the GOP is that they are bald-faced obstructionists who have absolutely nothing to offer, but spend a very long time offering it.

My third opinion… well, you get the idea:

Senate Republicans are poised to try to reignite the health care debate by launching a coordinated political messaging offensive to target Democrats and the White House for what they contend are the new law’s onerous consequences.

A group of Republican Senators who played key roles in the yearlong fight over health care legislation met Thursday in Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) office to discuss the strategy. Under the slogan “second opinion,” Republicans plan to communicate their message on multiple fronts, including on the Senate floor, in press conferences, via the Internet and through television and radio appearances.

Yeah good luck with that, because, you know, voters haven’t heard enough anti-health care reform rants, raves, and talking points. Especially when they’re more concerned with a struggling economy, unemployment, remarkably stupid car bombers, Big Oil’s Katrina, survival of the planet they inhabit, a couple of wars, racial profiling, stuff like that.

By the way, Party of No, try convincing a family who is now able to get their children to the family doctor to keep them, you know, healthy.

Try finding those ultra super duper secret hidden death panels. That should keep you busy for eons.

And how about those pre-existing conditions?  Voters are sure to yearn for the good old days when they were rejected for those.

Want to get dropped by your insurer again, because you can’t be any more. Now there’s a surefire talking point, right GOP?

Democrats rebuked the strategy as typical of what the Republicans offered throughout the contentious health care debate. “I guess it takes Republicans a ‘second opinion’ to ignore all the benefits of the new law,” a Democratic Senate aide said. “Their second opinion pretty much sounds like their first opinion — just the same old rehashed obstructionism at its worst.”

The Party of No needs some good mood elevators. I bet those are covered now, too.