Democrats launch radio ads attacking 28 House Republicans, taking some facts out of c

[Revmitchell]

The first round of attack ads in the 2010 midterm elections was announced this week by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Its new radio spots accuse 28 Republican House members variously of voting against tax breaks for working people, voting against money for schools, voting against creating jobs and voting against health insurance coverage for millions of children.

The ads aren't exactly false, but they don't tell the whole story. Popular programs that the GOP members opposed actually were small parts of a huge package of spending and tax-cut measures that Republicans criticized as poorly designed and wasteful. And some of the ads attack Republicans for supporting measures, such as last year's financial rescue package, that Democrats also supported in even greater numbers.


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[Aaron]

This is nothing new. The Dems always run adds like this. I just wonder when the Republicans are going to wake up and fight back.

 

[matt wade]

Exactly why we need a "One Subject at a Time Act".

http://www.downsizedc.org/page/osta_legislation

To prohibit the abuse of legislative power: by requiring that each bill or amendment hereinafter introduced (other than concurrent resolutions or appropriations bills within the jurisdictional authority of each subcommittee of each Appropriations Committee) be limited to only one subject, so as to end the practice of addressing more than one subject in a single bill; by requiring that each bill's single subject be descriptively expressed in the title thereto; by requiring each appropriation bill, including any supplemental appropriation bill, by amendment or otherwise, not to contain any general legislation or change of existing law not germane to the subject matter of said bill...