Brutal New Ad Blames GOP Spending Cuts For Ebola Deaths (VIDEO)

[cal04]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/agenda-project-ad-republican-cuts-kill

A new TV ad blames prominent Republicans for Ebola deaths, attacking them for championing spending cuts that have gone after emergency public health funding for containing disease outbreaks.

The one minute ad, called "Republican Cuts Kill," splices grueling images of body bags and workers in hazmat suits with footage of top Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY) and House Speaker John Boehner (OH) calling for spending cuts. It also features 2014 Republican Senate candidates Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Pat Roberts of Kansas.

The spot was produced by the Agenda Project Action Fund, the same progressive group that has made controversial anti-Republican ads such as "Granny Off the Cliff." The group's spokeswoman, Erica Payne, said Monday the ad would air in Kentucky, North Carolina, South Dakota and Kansas — all of which feature competitive Senate races that could swing the majority.

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Payne told TPM the group would take out a "low six figure buy in Kentucky – the others states are being decided now."

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. 'Bout damn time for some "brutality" from our side. nt

[MynameisBlarney]

18. Right on!

We've had enough to go for the jugular for decades.
Time to go for the kill shot. As it were.

[demwing]

2. Maybe this will be the year that Dems decided to fight fire with fire

and I say damned straight - let the GOPers burn.

[RobertEarl]

5. I wish

But I doubt the Party leaders are comfortable with such strong accusations. After all, they have to share power with those evil bastards. They know what happens when someone steps out of line.

[freshwest]

3. Well, it's True. Naturally, They'll Go Ballastic and Cry Victimhood.

[Scuba]

4. Excellent! I was especially pleased to see Squatty Wanker in there saying "cut".

[Calista241]

6. It doesn't really sound plausible to me.

It's like when Italy put those geologists on trial for not accurately predicting an earthquake.

[LeftInTX]

11. They do it to us all the time

Showed the Middle East burning "under Obama's watch"

[Calista241]

20. That's not really plausible either.

"They do it" doesn't mean it works. I just want our adverts to be effective and not sound ridiculous.

[YouWillBeCriticized]

34. Agree with calista

We've had to endure so much of the republicans bull, hate, and lies. But stooping to their level would only damage the Democratic Party.

[AlinPA]

42. It seems effective to me.

[Tweedy]

21. Cuts have real world consequences

In Italy, those scientists predicted there would be no volcano. They were wrong. Their imprisonment for a mistake was bizarre.

Here, the GOP has told us since president Obama took office that indiscriminate cuts have no consequences. Nobody is suggesting jail time. Nevertheless, it is obvious that cuts to medical research have consequences to everyone, except gop elected officials. For heavens sake, several senators, including senator McCain, tried to end fruit fly research, despite the clear importance of that research to medical advances. The GOP's policy prescriptions of late have been ridiculous and dangerous. This ad. is appropriate.

[Liberalynn]

27. +1

[noiretextatique]

35. legislators need to be held accountable

for their actions, inaction, and ideology. republicons behaved recklessly, and they should not be shielded from the consequences of their behavior and beliefs.

[hootinholler]

39. Are you sure you're in the right place?

The Cut Cut Cut thing applies to not only health and research, but to all infrastructure. Do you drive over any bridges daily?

[Calista241]

40. What the fuck are you talking about? You accuse me of being a repub for not buying into

this pile of excrement article. All i said was the article was impossible to believe with a straight face.

First of all, this article makes an assumption that a cure would be found at all. That is in no way guaranteed. Viruses are extremely hard to develop cures for, and to assume that you will have a cure in the first place is pure fantasy.

In addition, an Ebola cure would be very hard to test. They have to test it on live humans with Ebola to get any legit results. In the past several years, there haven't been any Ebola outbreaks. Do you suggest they go around infecting people with Ebola so they can test their potential cure?

Even if they had a larger budget, what is the likelihood of them spending the huge amounts of money required on Ebola research? I can think of a million other diseases, viruses, random projects for them to spend the money on before they spend millions on a virus that still has yet to kill an single American.

People are talking about this article like it's going to get a shitton of votes for Dems in November, which is totally unbelievable. The premise of the article just sounds completely ridiculous.

If you're after votes with a bullshit strategy like this, then why the fuck haven't we closed the borders and quarantined everyone from Africa. The person you're going after with this whole "we could have cured Ebola without budget cuts" strategy is exactly the reactionary type person that would want closed borders and quarantines.

[malaise]

7. Most excellent

Rec

[SunSeeker]

8. Good. Now do one on how GOP governors' refusal to expand medicaid is killing thousands. nt

[napkinz]

37. ...

[Andy823]

9. Great ad

I would love to see more of them pointing out all the cuts that were made to programs that shouldn't have been cut, and all the "cuts" that were never made to oil companies, corporate welfare, tax breaks for the rich, etc. Let the country know how the republicans cut the hell out of things for everyone but the rich, and make it as brutal as they can.

[OldRedneck]

10. I hope everyone has seen this . . . if not, READ IT!!

NIH head says we likely would have had an ebola vaccine if they had not had to deal with budget cuts.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/12/ebola-vaccine_n_5974148.html

Slap the goddam GOTP silly with this revelation. Slap 'em to the ground then kick 'em!!!

[Tatiana]

12. Wow. Very James Carville-like. And effective. n/t

[sadoldgirl]

13. Why, oh why

does this not play in CO, where the vote is so close?!?

[samsingh]

14. recommend for the truth

[tartan2]

15. Hello, Hello

who the hell shut down the government last year? Spending cuts, shutting down the government and the GOP is always behind it.

[calimary]

31. This is where I'm donating, from here on.

The Agenda Project. Well worth support. Might help get this ad out - wider.

http://agendaproject.org/what_we_do.html


http://apaction.com

[santamargarita]

16. Much deserved.

[B2G]

17. Well that should help curb the panic.

[Liberalynn]

19. What the hell took our side so long?

This is exactly what they need to do. It's far past time for Democrats to quit apologizing for being liberals and make the other side start explaining why Conservative Republican's are such heartless, greedy, selfish, ignorant Assholes.

[abakan]

23. our side has no huevos...nt

[Old Crow]

22. AWESOME.

Now: Is this ad being broadcast nonstop everywhere? I sure hope so. I'd even be willing to donate some coin to help broadcast it, if that's what it takes.

We need more of this truthful, hard-hitting media. LOTS MORE.

[tosh]

24. Donate here:

http://apaction.com/

[blkmusclmachine]

25. Bout damn time. Guess it's tough to say bad things about your GOP pals in the DC Club, eh, DC DEMS??

[samsingh]

26. kick

[certainot]

28. play that all over all the time. it perfectly melds the disfunctional ignorance of the GOP to

an issue they are trying to magnify and distort for political gain

[littlemissmartypants]

29. Kicking. Thank you. nt

[TrollBuster9090]

30. Fox News SPIN has already begun on this, meaning they must be scared. I just saw Fox News

I just saw Fox News show this ad.

1. They inferred it was put out by the Democrats. (In fact, it's put out by THE AGENDA PROJECT, which is a group of millionaires who advocate raising taxes on the rich. Seriously, does anybody really think the Democratic PARTY would have the spine and populist common sense to put out this ad? It pays them a compliment they don't deserve.)

2. They carefully edited it to cut out the part where the head of NIH talks about budget cutting since 2010 being the main problem (the left hook), and the 'right cross' being the sequester cuts.

3. They then had Brit 'the Hound Dog' Hume come out and claim that A) the NIH/CDC budgets were cut by the SEQUESTER (as opposed to years of GOP cutting), and B) the SEQUESTER was all Obama's idea.


Okay, I guess that'll keep the troglodytes that live in the conservative echo chamber happy. Let's see what the GENERAL public thinks about it.

[lonestarnot]

32. LOL puggies always respond to fear. Cowards. Truth should really get 'em.

[Tommymac]

33. K&R - Tweeted to help go viral. eom

[napkinz]

36. K&R

nt

[napkinz]

38. ...

[lonestarnot]

41. Pugs talk out of both sides of their face. Kill government but want gobmint to protect.

[napkinz]

43. cut cut cut