La strategia di attacco dei repubblicani

November 3, 2010

Democrats Outrun by a 2-Year G.O.P. Comeback Plan

By JIM RUTENBERG and JEFF ZELENY

The PowerPoint slides presented to House Republicans in January 2009 seemed incongruously optimistic at a time when the very word “hope” belonged to the newly ascendant Democrats and their incoming president, Barack Obama.

“If the goal of the majority is to govern, what is the purpose of the minority?” one slide asked.

“The purpose of the minority,” came the answer, “is to become the majority.”

The presentation was the product of a strategy session held 11 days before Mr. Obama’s inauguration, when top Republican leaders in the House of Representatives began devising an early blueprint for what they would accomplish in Tuesday’s election: their comeback.

L'imboscata al senatore

L'imboscata al senatore

Lo spot dei repubblicani

La sfidante Renee Ellmers utilizza l'incidente per la sua campagna elettorale

I repubblicani ammettono di essere i mandanti

Attack ad admission in heated

congressional race

Thursday, November 04, 2010

The National Republican Congressional Committee is admitting it is behind the now infamous video of Congressman Bob Etheridge grabbing a young man on a street in Washington.

His challenger, Republican Renee Ellmers, was seen as a long shot until the video emerged in June.

The video went viral and many suspected the confrontation had a purpose.
And on Thursday, a front page New York Times story revealed that National Republican Party strategists acknowledged they were behind the episode.
It was apparently part of a broader plan devised to regain control of the US House after President Barack Obama was elected.