Friday, October 06, 2006

Alright, You Called It, Catapults It Is

The never-elected usurper-Pres wants to catapult the propaganda. I'm thinking it's better to catapult the facts, in this case courtesy Anonymous Liberal:

Here's my very simple idea for a Democratic campaign ad:

The GOP's 1994 "Contract with America" appears on the screen.

As the camera focuses in on the Contract's preamble, we can hear Republican House members reciting the words:

[W]e intend to act "with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right."

To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace.

To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.

Halfway through the recitation, the screen switches to footage of the 1994 press conference on the steps of the Capitol, where all the Republican members of the House solemnly pledged to end the "cycle of scandal and disgrace" in Washington.

The screen then flashes in rapid succession to headlines of all the Republican scandals of the last few years:

Randy "Duke" Cunningham behind bars, Tom Delay indicted and resigning in disgrace, Bob Ney pleading guilty to corruption charges, Mark Foley exposed as a child predator, Dennis Hastert and the Republican leadership implicated in a cover up, etc. etc.

The screen then flashes to the original TV Guide advertisement used to launch the Contract with American. In bold type it reads: “If we break this contract, throw us out. We mean it.”

The commerical ends with the narrator asking, in a solemn voice: "Had enough?"

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