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Caught: Jon Stewart Shows GOP's 'New' Pledge Exactly The Same As The Old

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Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart lambasted the GOP for their new "Pledge to America," a promise of fresh, new ideas that sound identical to the Republican rhetoric of the last 20 years.

Stewart began by remembering two years ago when Republican senators previously pledged to make the GOP a "party of new ideas," trying things like forum website America Speaking Out, and other ideas that ultimately failed. Now, with midterms around the corner, Republicans have are trying to reinvent themselves once more, promising things like reduced spending, smaller government, permanent tax cuts, and other things that sound oddly familiar.

"Your fresh new ideas," Stewart said, "sound slightly - I'm sorry, did I say slightly? - sound EXACTLY like your old ones."

As he does best, Stewart worked the clips and showed side by side comparisons of 2010 Republicans pledging to do the same things as those of the last 20 years.

"This isn't even a sequel," Stewart said. "This is a shot-by-shot remake!"
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32 comments // Caught: Jon Stewart Shows GOP's 'New' Pledge Exactly The Same As The Old

  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • @ atomiclegion. imho, I think the Repugnant Cons are counting on
      the voters developing memory loss that vegetating in front of the
      boob tube is infamous for... How else could they be so stupid as to
      believe Newt Gingrich or any other of their butt monkeys are something
      " new " much less compelling ? I've heard that the tea party " movement "
      is merely the Repugnant Cons repackaging their same tired shit into
      a different package. Their tax cuts for the uber rich reaganomics show
      their true colors. I'm disgusted with the Democrats being corrupt too, to
      be fair.

    • 1 year ago
  • Tyr
    • +1
      Tyr  
    • Isn't this an excellent example of that definition of insanity..." doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results?"

    • 1 year ago
  • PressCore
    • 0
      PressCore  
    • Tyr:

      Exactly right. That's a quote taken from Albert Einstein. The Repugnant Cons
      are a sham. For that matter the Democrats are equally corrupt, though not
      all D's or R's are worthless simply because they more resemble a designer
      label of denim marketed by the Corporation Party. Or the sports teams the
      elections have turned into a horse race. It's the person that credits or disgraces
      their office, as always. And it's up to the Press to investigate them fully so that
      we know what they're realy made of. Integrity and honor never get old. Only
      the rants of the ignorant branding conservative vs liberal have gotten tiresome.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • if you want to skip having your intelligence insulted by reading "the pledge" (now lemon scented) here is what it says:
      "hey fundndamentalist conservatives, aka tea party, remember why you like us better than those liberla heathens?if not this pledge will remind you.please stop fucking our shit up"

    • 1 year ago
  • PressCore
    • 0
      PressCore  
    • http://Current.com

      The turds in D.C. who want to cheat the elderly & disabled out
      of their Social Security retirement and insurance benefits are
      exactly the ones who favor extending the Hitler Bush tax cuts
      for their uber rich masters so that they can convert your time
      & work prodiuct into their expanded Gold holdings to keep you
      under their thumbs. I've blogged several articles which our
      Current.com social news community citizen Journalists have
      contributed. They plainly and clearly show the facts are quite
      radicaly different than the sleezoid politicos in D.C. falsely claim.
      But then their villian heros like Ronald Reagan supported the
      rifling of the Social Security Trust Fund from back in the early
      1980s. Their warped and twisted attitude of devil take the hindmost
      never recognized the best thing that ever came out of FDR's New
      Deal. Because these assholes don't believe in social Justice.
      I'll be glad when the cowardly corrupt shitbags are extinct. But
      utill then, do hold your noses. Because the ex hasn't happened
      yet. They simply stink. I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.

    • 1 year ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • Any political party that would not allow Ron Paul to speak at
      their national convention, but would allow dunsels like Palin,
      Lieberman and other butt monkey's of the uber rich to spout
      off, is NOT the political party that Abraham Lincoln created.
      Indeed it has come around 180 degrees to side with the
      Old South Democrats who backed Slavery as an institution.
      Except that it's not African Americans whose slavery the
      Repugnant Cons support. It's anyone making below $ 250,000
      a year who can't afford to grease their Tamany Hall style of
      political machine Theodore Roosevelt, a true Republican, like
      Ron Paul, would rebuke because he fought against their corruption.

      Rush Limbaugh claims that the Repugnant Cons are heading
      for a minority party status, to be replaced by a 3rd party in the
      USA. I hope so. I would like to see a 3rd, and 4th political party
      emerge so that WE the People can live to see the repeal of
      many shit UnConstitutional Statutes, in whole or in part, by some
      future Congress itself. You know the type of shit so called laws
      I mean.

      Statutes written by Corporations to favor Gummint of by and for
      Corporations because: " The business of this country IS Big
      Business...And " Whatever is good for Big Business is good
      for the USA " Never mind, folks that the assholes you've been
      duped to vote into office in D.C. have voted your jobs to China.
      Never mind that their corrupt anti Constitutional Statutes they've
      passed without conscionably readfing them first have resulted in
      causing an out of control situation which one Federal Appeals
      Court Justice has publicly denounced as creating crimes out of
      thin air like their Trojan Horse creation, aka " the Fed" creates
      " money " foreign to the Constitution out of thin air which will
      collapse the dollar's value to 0 eventualy. The Fedral Judicary
      should not be forced to vacate the bad judgement of previously
      corrupt voting which never would have existed without corrupt
      Congresses & corrupt Chief Executives acting like the clerks & CEO
      of a Corporate conglomerate they pretend has replaced We the People.

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
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      UtopianSky  
    • PressCore:

      Yes, it would be great of the Republican party collapses under it's own weight, but if it's replaced by the Tea Party it's the same old thing, just with a new name and more openly loony representation.

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
  • bike10
  • Kaveh_Kompani
  • Atalanda_Cameron
  • atomiclegion
  • saidemily
    • +3
      saidemily  
    • I was absolutely shocked when played simultaneously, clips of Boehner's recent speech and past speech matched word for word. I don't even know what to say...

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
  • insaintity
  • dalistuff
    • +3
      dalistuff  
    • They Suck. They sucked the respect USA had. They sucked the life out of the middle class. They sucked my tax bracket benefits dry and gave it to the filthy rich. They gave us palin and beck , although entertaining they suck. ©Republicant's ,Sucked Us Calmly as to Knead the dough until it is smoothly packed in their bank accounts.

    • 1 year ago
  • timetide
    • +3
      timetide  
    • I love how Boehner gave almost the EXACT same speach back in 1998. Do they really underestimate their parties intelligence that much?

    • 1 year ago
  • bklynkid
  • freecrack
  • timetide
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • timetide:

      im with ya.i think they used to, once upon a time.

      my theory is that nixon literaly killed the republican party, and being that politics in a democracy is a numbers game, they did what every group through out history has done to win the favor of the mass's.they played to the faithfull, by branding themselves as such.but over the last 30 or 40 years forgot that it was a stop gap measure, and havent created any actual reasons to vote for them aside from faith.

      just my theory, and it seems the tea party are proving me right.if my theory holds we should see the tea party turn into the religious right party, and the republicans either rebrand, or die.

    • 1 year ago
  • ibrake4rappers13
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      ibrake4rappers13  
    • They actually have some good ideas in that pledge.

      1. Require each bill moving through Congress to include a clause citing the specific constitutional authority upon which the bill is justified.

      2. Establish a Hard Cap on New Discretionary Spending

      3. Congress should move immediately to cancel unspent “stimulus” funds, and block any attempts to extend the timeline for spending “stimulus” fund

      http://www.scribd.com/doc/37958976/GOP-Pledge-to-America

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
    • +1
      freecrack  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      1-then what purpose does the supreme court serve?
      question: does that imply that all previous legislation had been created with out taking the constitution into account?

      2-complete bullshit and you know it, as thier primary self defined difference as a party is fiscal conservatism.establishing a hard cap on new discretionary spending would mean this whole thime they were financial liberals.

      3-and the alternative means by wich we nurse our economy back to health is.......................

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
  • Jake_Leonard
    • +5
      Jake_Leonard  
    • Sounds like they're preaching common sense--the same things sought by both parties. They're missing something crucial, however, something called an operational definition. "Honor" families, stop "out of control" spending, fight "terrorists", "stand" by our "friends", and "protect" citizens. These are so vague. Further, it is more about the APPROACH of accomplishing these objectives that is what separates democrats from republicans.

    • 1 year ago
  • Atalanda_Cameron
  • Jake_Leonard
  • freecrack
    • +1
      freecrack  
    • Jake_Leonard:

      the thing is i respect conservatism.im even envious of those who live thier lives by "better safe than sorry".but they never get me as they dont offer how to do it in practice.
      smaller government sounds great.i love the idea of unadulterated freedom not hampered by those with power, but its end is anarchy wich is unsastainable.if they could create a small government lin in he perverbial sand i could be a conservative.otherwise it is just shared wish's, not policy.those vague pandering bastards.

    • 1 year ago
  • Jake_Leonard
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      Jake_Leonard  
    • freecrack:

      You can be highly conservative, yet still be progressive to some degree. I agree--I like certain conservative ideals--but we don't live in a peachy world where everyone has their own bubble. Politics is the result of competing interests and freedoms infringing upon other individuals. I very much like being better safe than sorry, but I also have empathy for other people's needs and wants; and I prefer looking toward the future rather than the past.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
  • Jake_Leonard
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      Jake_Leonard  
    • freecrack:

      Thank you for the compliment, but I lack the stereotype of experience and knowledge that comes with age. I am thus too young, and too extremist for the current state of democracy. Perhaps a time will come in the future when my cards are better; plus it can never hurt to obtain a little more insight and knowledge. :-)

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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