(CNN) - The conservative group Crossroads GPS is going up with radio ads defending 19 congressmen who were the focus of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee efforts earlier this week.
The DCCC's radio ads and phone calls hit Republicans for cutting spending that will cost jobs. Crossroads' ads rail against the Democratic agenda that "nearly bankrupted America."
Each spot uses the same language substituting the names of different congress members.
"Pelosi's gang attacked Sean Duffy for trying to fix the budget mess Pelosi created," one of the ads says that's running against the freshman Rep. from Wisconsin. "We stand with Sean Duffy, not Nancy Pelosi's politics of spend and smear."
Crossroads GPS is a 501 (c)(4) affiliated with American Crossroads, the brainchild of Republican strategists Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie. They are spending approximately $90,000 between Thursday and Tuesday.
"Today we launched issue ads to frame the debate and set the record straight: Nancy Pelosi's big spending bailout agenda put the country trillions into debt – and these new members of Congress are working to clean up the mess," Crossroads spokesman Jonathan Collegio said in an e-mail.
Crossroads spent millions in the 2010 midterm elections, contributing to the Republicans' take back of the House.
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Great ads! The truth shall prevail!! Don't let the Democrats lie and smear their way into office any longer. The American people have seen it for two years and are on to these con artists.
Sorry Crossroads, it was actually Bush's agenda that nearly bankrupted America, nice try at reinventing the past.
What is the dumbocraps mission ?........spend us into bankruptcy. Sorry boys, the time for hand outs to the deadbeats is OVER.
Karl Rove and his PAC are liars!!! HE was a part of the administration that nearly destroyed this nation. Who the hell are they trying to kid?? Ohh yah, the tea baggers. Idiots.
"Crossroads' ads rail against the Democratic agenda that "nearly bankrupted America."
Being said at the same time they (Crossroads GPS) states they won't use smear tactics to get their point across . . . oh, well, another example of Rovian politics gone wrong. I imagine we'll see and hear hundreds of millions of dollars of this BS over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again for the next two years.
"Nancy Pelosi's big spending bailout agenda put the country trillions into debt – and these new members of Congress are working to clean up the mess" Truer words have never been spoken. There is a reason there was the largest transfer of power since the 1920's – the Democrats were flying us into the ground. All I can say is Thank God for the Tea Party and people who are not afraid to tell the truth.
OK – who nearly bankrupted America? Not the Dems – it was Bush-Cheney and the GOP during their 8 year reign. Earmarks gone wild – anyone hear about the Quarter Billion Dollar Bridge to Nowhere that Palin "said no to" but didn't return the money? What about the breakdown of not only our economy but the global economy with the Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS)? Hey – the GOP wants to repeal the financial law that is designed to protect us – passed last year. They want to go back to deregulate the financial industry. Well I guess the GOP know where the beef is – it is on Wall Street. It is amazing how the GOP wants to rewrite history.
The money would be better spented on job creation.
The budget mess was caused by Republicans decision to not include the cost of 2 wars, the Bush tax cuts and medicare scam in the budget in order to blame the debt on the Dems. Not to mention our personal retirement savings was stolen by their Wall Street buddies. Anything with Karl Rove's name attached should be taken with a shaker of salt.
Has anyone ever figured out why Carl Rove isn't in prison?
Will the Republican's Investigation Squad look into what happened while Uncle Carl was in charge?
Money buys Honey . . .
Just remember: it's not Crossroads' $90K that it's spending...it's yours...because the corporations that gave it to them are making you pay for it via their prices for goods and services.
That's the same song they've been singing for decades, even when they were in power. They're always trying to tell Americans how that awful 'democrat party' has ruined America. However all they do when in power is sell off their votes to the highest bidder. Sure some (perhaps even many) Democratic party members follow the trail of money as well, but Republicans seem to do it collectively.
Where were all of these "budget hawks" and Republicans when Bush was bankrupting this country? 2 unfunded, unneessary wars, tax cuts for the millionaires and billionaires, also unfunded, and medicare prescription part D, also unfunded. And Bush gave a huge gift to Big Pharma by not using the volume of medicare recipients to negotiate discounts. How hypocritical is that?
The GOP doesn't support basic human rights, and the Dems are fiscal disasters.
Please.......give us another option!
Tell Carl to crawl back into the hole he came out of.
Carl still wants to blame the economic mess we are in on Obama. Carl needs to pay a little more attension to facts. Without the programs Obama has put in place we would be looking at 19% unemployment with two of the largest manufacturers in the country out of business permanetly.
Carls little front group has spent there clout and are now just another right wing neo-conservative think tank.
Democrats should never, ever speak about the economy again because, thanks to Chairman Obama, we have all seen what a disaster their policies are.
Crossroads gps maybe a conservative group, but that is as much deception as truth – crossroads gps is a political group funded by corporatations to push political agenda and policy to benefit corporate interests. Basically a coporate lobbying group.
Pot calling the kettle black!
Who does Pelosi think she is kidding??? Does she think we are so dumb we are incapable of doing mathematics for ourselves and realize she caused a financial mess????? Pelosi is only concerned with what people will think of her in history and is trying to move the blame on someone else, she's attempting to distract us from the decisions she made.
I guess the GOP "stands by" governor Pompadour Perry here in TX and the GOP legislators who now want to cut Medicaid by 20% which will cause 588 nursing homes to close because the majority of the elderly in those homes depend on Medicaid to pay for their care.
WWJD?
Dump the old and infirmed out into the cold like so much trash?
I am pretty sure that when Jesus said "I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me" He did not mean that we as a society should put the almighty dollar above the lives of the "least among us".
If this is "compassionate conservatism " exhibited by these GOP "christians", I will proudly remain a heathen!
You want to set the record straight? Then man up to the fact that republicans have a significant amount of responsibility for the shape our economy is in right now. Both parties share blame for the melt down. For anyone to say otherwise is just plain WRONG. Period.
I get it now, we Americans will believe anything you put in front of us that we wanted to believe before you put it in front of us.
Next, you'll tell us the two wars were free, that bailing out the greedy financial companies was something that Jimmy Carter planned during the 70's oil crisis.
I'm starting to put this political propaganda people on the same level as drug dealers - nothing positive to offer this country, but willing to suck the life out of people.
New Republicans are 'cleaning up the mess' is a joke of a statement. According to some people Obama should done NOTHING to stop the mass job losses we saw at the end of the W. Bush administration. Nancy Pelosi's big spending bailout agenda put the country trillions into debt past the 10 TRILLION dollar debt we were already in. Did someone forget that W. Bush signed the first bailout into law, not Obama. W. Bush could have VETOED it but he didn't. Did someone forget that the US government is being REPAID the BILLIONS they were bailed out with? Oh that is probably an inconvenient fact that the RIGHT does like to talk about. Instead they'd rather point to Obama's 'failed' polices. These are the same 'failed' policies that no longer have the United States losing over 500,000 jobs a month, right?
Like kids fighting in a sandbox.
Forget the back and forth ads, the truth is the Republicans' spending cuts will not create jobs. Futhermore, the Republicans won't disclose to the American people what they plan to cut.
"The GOP doesn't support basic human rights, and the Dems are fiscal disasters."
You got that right...