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Republican Strategy: Don't worry about representing the people how they want to be represented, just blanket their airwaves with ads. They'll fall for it. Once in, Good 'ole boy politics as usual.

If We, the People, are smart enough to elect Obama overwhelmingly and still have his approval ratings better than any president in our time, then we are smart enough not to be fooled by the republican rhetoric that is busy blaming Obama for everything that BUSH's Administration did instead of working to solve this mess their party created! Run on Sentence! *shrug*

But I am so sick of hearing the Republican stance on the present financial melt down. It is pretty darned hypocritical knowing that THEY are responsible for this mess! I think they need to come up with some viable solutions to place on the table instead of playing the blame game! Especially when they are the ones to be blamed!

ranjit –

It IS a conservative district and they ARE spending skads of money.

The Grand Old Party: never let reality get in the way of beliefs.

Republicans have tried everything else.

Gotta laugh! If the Republicans don't have substance in their candidate they think money can buy them a seat. Not this time boys, America has woken up!

I would like to see one hand go up to any Republican who has never received pork money before? Vitter wasted his on street walkers. Craig did a tap dance in the bathroom stall......I could go on and on with the guilty ones. I still don't see any hands raised maybe something else that they are good at raising..Just look at Palins daughter ex boyfriend what he raised for her....

@Amanda-
Did you pay this close of attention to what Bush did to our veterans???? Obama pales in comparison... and that guy was a daddy's boy draft dodger/Nat'l Guard dodger.
Obama is fixing our military excesses. We have no choice after all the treasure that was plummetted by the Bushies. So closing and consolidating what we can was already necessary so he's doing it. Veterans are getting increased benefits by 17%!!!!!! With a pledge for more and enough to cover the injuries both mental and physical for 500K soldiers that were called on to fight an illegal war. The only thing Obama is trying to do that I think you are talking about is to get private health insurance to cover military injuries also. Still no out of pocket to the soldiers. Do your homework and stop being so overly biased!!!!

Typical Republican approach. This approach gave us George W....Remember?????

All the money in the world can't repair the damage Ann Couleter and Laura Ingraham have done to the Republican party. They are the Party's own worst enemies. The Republican Party is un-repairable.

"Jim Tedisco, running for Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s former congressional seat, told reporters he would have voted against the stimulus bill..."

Of course he would! He would follow the GOP instructions to the letter without independent thought or any reason but the talking points he was given.

Hey Jim! Don't waste our time on rhetorical answers as to what you would have done – tell us what you are going to do? What is the Republican plan? Oh, smaller government & lower taxes. Tried that 2000-2008. The result is obvious. Now what?

Hopefully, money WON'T buy the Republicans what they want.

Why are the conservatives now all parroting the talking point that the Stimulus Bill failed???? Its been about 10 days!!!!

First your effed up GOP President screws up our Nation, then Obama becomes President.... and you all start complaining about how Obama screwed up our Nation not even 50 days into his enormous job of fixing this mess, then he gets the Stimulus Bill into place to fix the mess... and now you're all complainging it isn't working... AND ITS BEEN TEN DAYS!!!!!!

So we come to the point where a man who has never served a day in the military is making decisions to close military bases, cut military funding and now yanking the right for military veterans' to get the treatment they deserve without going head over heals in debt. The veterans of America paid more than just insurance premiums, they offered up their lives and the majority are severly disabled for serving there country. What kind of a President dishonors the country's fighting men and women by now vowing to take care of them. That ungrateful jerk wouldn't have the freedoms he does today if it weren't for those who fought and died or were disable to ensure it! I hope that those of you who voted for this "great leader" are happy with the how he's quickly and drastically running our great nation into the ground.

Go ahead! Send all the money you want. If I ever stand in a voting booth, ready to pull the Retardlican lever, I hope my arm rots off. And, I hope the people of our nation always remember the mess the Retardlicans created..

The recent RNC ads are very out of line. There's one that, through use of image and soundtrack, links candidate Murphy to Indian-based telephone support centers. This is of course supposed to play into nationalist fears and racial stereotypes- typical moral-deficient approach of the RNC. Likely will back-fire, since people aren't as stupid as the republicans would like. People want progress, not insulting rhetoric.
- Hudson, NY

The recent RNC ads are very out of line. There's one that, through use of image and soundtrack, links candidate Murphy to Indian-based telephone support centers. This is of course supposed to play into nationalist fears and racial stereotypes- typical moral-deficient approach of the RNC. Likely will back-fire, since people aren't as stupid as the republicans would like. People want progress, not insulting rhetoric.
- Hudson, NY

In Houston, Tx.- It will be hard for the GOP to "lose another seat", since it is a Democrat seat up for election. Just more proof of the lack of information of an Obama follower. Oh, and off topic, the stimulus bill that Obama signed, gave a special provision to pay AIG contractual executives bonuses , courtesy of Chris Dodd. In other words, all these AIG bonuses that Obama is screaming about, he actually signed into law. Tell me again how "smart" this President is.

Why is the RNC bothering to funnel money to its candidates? Why not save time and just give money to people who are already wealthy?

Isn't that what Republicanism is all about?

This is just another RNC waste of money in their attempts to stop the Titanic from sinking!!

Michael Steele can pour ALL of the RNC's money into NY, it WILL NOT get them elected in NY bottom line. Are you nuts? New Yorkers have made that message very clear on Nov. 4th. Once again, the RNC is deaf of this reality.

And the GOP says that President Obama speaks out of both sides of his mouth! First, this guy would have voted only for a modified version, and now, would not vote for the stimulus bill? Who does he think he's fooling?

If he wins this election, his JOB is to vote the way his constituents want him to vote...a lesson that a goodly majority on BOTH sides of the aisle need to relearn. It is his obligation to find out what they think and what they want, and vote for that, regardless of party lines.

The problem is that the majority of people in the country are moderates who never get ANY representation. We vote for the one who is least offensive or least wild-eyed radical, but still don't get one who looks at our government with our eyes. Both sides of the aisle are guilty of this, which is why Bush pushed through a bailout with no accountability, and Congress focused on less than 2% of the budget that constituted earmarks, and ignored huge segments of pork in the main body of the budget. Guess what? Earmarks do not add a single dollar to the overall budget. They merely stipulate that certain amount of an agency's budget must be spent a certain way. It doesn't change the amount they get, it just changes how much discretion they have over how it is spent. So all that thunder and lightning was just special effects.

If they really wanted to cut pork, they need to get into the nitty gritty of the Defense budget, where VA budgets are cut, personnel pay is pitiful, yet we have the newest, shiniest toys! One less fancy plane could put lots of dollars in a lot of service personnel paychecks! This guy, if he seriously wants to make it in politics needs to learn never to take an absolute position!

The stimulus bill as enacted should have been modified, as the GOP recommended. We are seeing now that the stimulus cannot work, as it only gives advantage to people who have taken unfair advantage of the system. It does not add jobs or help the unemployed.

And someone inform Mr. Steele that republicans no longer stand a chance in Virginia. I can't wait until 2010 to vote Rep. "Just Say No" Cantor out. What does he think Virginina is, a red state or something?!?!?

This article is about setting the stage for tedisco's win. When he wins, it will be spinned in two ways. They will say it was a conservative district and it not a big deal. The other spin will be that, RNC spent incredibile amounts for a special election and he was expected to win. Seen this play book

Dream on, you're never getting back in the mainstream. You're too far to the right and you listen to Rush too much.

The RNC desperately throws good money after bad and by so doing, demonstrates the weakness of the local candidate. If the Repuke candidate truly had a credible small-government platform he wouldn't need to be bailed out by the national party.

@ Tannim
Right on! The people of the 20 th district of NY should vote for Eric Sundwall, someone who has lived in the community all his life, and is there and will be in Washington to represent the people, not some back room major party of Washington insiders.

And for all the comments from outside of NY, what business is it of yours? The people of NY deserve to have representation from their own community.

Does not matter. Democrats will just steal the election as usual.

Hmm so if you are a Republican and can say NO to whatever President Obama says then you will get money if not no money.. remember that the radical religious right demands ALL walk in lock step... I can see them now goosestepping all over the Constitution.. oh wait that isn't the future that is the past... or is it the future? Hard to tell the radical religious right have so distorted reality

Scott's gonna win this one. That old fool Tedisco hasn't changed at all, he's still running negative ads and trying to evoke President Obama in others. It won't work. Scott Murphy WILL be the next Congressman from NY's 20th district.

I can call this now, The GOP lose another seat, this time it's NY-20.
It doesn't matter how much money you have to spend during the campaign. People are watching your actions and they are listening to what you say. If you have been seen standing in the way of our recovery, If you look like an obstruction on the path to brighter day you will lose.
And the way things look now, everyone carrying the GOP banner, everyone working for The Party of No...is going to lose.

I bet those AIG executives will be making big contributions to the GOP to block the proposed taxes on their ill-gotten gains.

what opposition did this people offer during the last eight years of big government and lies filled with deceit(no bid contracts, wmds, elevated threats of terrorism) suddenly the GOP legislators are genius, and fiscal conservatives, hogwash

The idiot said he would have voted against the stimulus bill. Well, that's enough said not to get you elected sir. You're running for a Senate seat in NY which is a blue state and you're making stupid statements like that?

hopefullly the gop will win big in 2010

I think Obama will end up being the best thing for the Republican party before all is said and done, just have to wait and see.

It is the message and attitude of the Republican party and RNC that needs change and no matter how much money they put out this time; it will not help elect a Republican until they change their message. Tax cuts for the rich/ no abortions/ no gay rights/ creationism, is not going to cut it anymore. At the rate they are going and what they are doing now they could see 70-80 Democrats in the senate by 2012 if not by 2010.

They're gonna need it! Probably gonna need a lot more to buy off enough people.

In other words Tedesco was FOR the economic stimulus before he was AGAINST it.

Republicans have some type of aversity to competence for some reason. Regardless of position or qualifications they do not want anyone with a brain in our government. Perhaps its because they can't compete in a battle of wits with their unarmed people!!! Ms. Gallibrand is as qualified as a person can get yet the GOP would prefer a village idiot instead!!!

And the Party of No still don't get it. They will continue to lose if they continue to be the Party of No with no new ideas, but TAX CUTS AND OBSTRUCTION!

New Yorkers had better not let the Repugs maintain a position in which they can be obstructionists by filibustering important bills.

Obama should go make some speeches on behalf of the Democratic candidate so he can occupy his time with something he's actually good at instead of wasting trillions of dollars.

Come on CNN again I can not comment in my own state?

Might as well point out that if the DNC did this, the GOPers would be all over the place claiming inaccurately that it was more waste of taxpayer money.

And what about the people who live in the 20th congressional district of NY? Who is going to represent them? Both the Democrat and the GOP candidates are getting all their support from outside the district. Isn't our government supposed to be by the people of the people and for the people? Who will these men represent going forward when the money is coming from Washington's RNC and DNC? Where is the protection of having the people living in the district to be represented by someone committed to their needs?

The RNC should also send a sum of money to the DNC to help it fight off the on sought by Rush "The Limbaugh".

All the republicans are against the stimulus but I haven't heard a one of them come up with an alternative to the mess they originally got us into when they were running the country.

What a waste of money. Why don't these people help the unemployed instead of trying to put another wealthy Republican in power.

I bet if the RNC is behind that this is Oxycottin fueled

Well of course he would have voted against the stimulus bill....DUH!
He's a republican.

It appears that they believe that our elections are up for sale to the highest contributor. In this economy, it is not going to be easy to sell a senator, representative or even a dog catcher who is out of step and out of ideas. Good luck with that RNC!

Looks like Eric Sundwall has the GOP scared!