Deep into the tour for his bestselling populist opus, "The Uprising", David Sirota found himself in the belly of the beast over at corporatist propaganda HQ: FOX. And who does he find there? Well, none other than former head of the death-spiral RPV herself, Kate Obenshain.
Watch Sirota deftly handle Kate's hackery. She forcefully argues that "McCain=Bush". Then, when Sirota calls her out as a defender of the dangerously failed economic farce McSame represents, she jumps away from her own position as if she'd just sat on a tack.
Nice to see you, Kate. Keep up the good work. I, too, hope that all McCain hacks continue to argue that the Bush legacy is the medicine for our economic ills. Hair of the dog that bit ya and all that.
h/t squarestate
It's always good to open with some good, old-fashioned, Lee Atwater racist code language when you hit the airwaves to flack against Obama.
The reality is that Bush got most of the conservative platform done: radical deregulation followed by under enforcement, tax cuts for the rich with token amounts given to the poor, enhancing the war machine, and changing the bankruptcy laws in favor or corporations and against individuals. The only major goal he missed was dismantling social security.
As Graham and Kate Obenshain make it clear, this agenda hasn't changed at all among conservatives. The solution for the current problems is following the same policies that created the problems in the first place. They are our American version of Soviet Marxists whose solutions were more orthodox government planning to fix the failures of government planning (Another interesting connection between modern day American conservatives and Soviet Marxists: they both poured their nation resources into military spending, letting infrastructure crumble and ignoring everything else.)
Instead of changing conservative policies, conservatives are trying to channel all of the negative feelings towards them to Bush; after all, his brand is unredeemable already.