SEIU is at again, this time jumping on the debt-ceiling bandwagon with the liberal advocacy group, Americans United for Change, to launch a new ad campaigning targeting GOP lawmakers for “driving” ordinary Americans “off a cliff.” Now where have we witnessed thatmetaphor before?
The ad, that one could argue lacks originality, depicts a “reckless” driver’s viewpoint as he burns rubber up a winding mountain pass at top gear, barely navigating the hairpin turns before, eventually, barreling through the guardrail and off the side of the cliff.
The message, predictably, is that Republicans are reckless with ordinary American’s futures while only caring about protecting fat cat millionaires, oil companies, and CEO’s who “fly around in private jets.”
While the ad targets the GOP as a whole, Rep. Sean Duffy and Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp were two Republicans the SEIU ad singled out specifically for attack.
Below is the ad that reportedly launched in four Republican House districts:
Don't drive America's economy off Cliff.
Meanwhile, the conservative Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, launched a campaign of its own, this one a satire on pharmaceutical ads.
The Blaze Blog posted the ad for “Spenditol” on Wednesday, in which the spot opens with a woman lamenting the difficulties in her life that were assuaged when she discovered a new “miracle drug” made in Washington, D.C. Spenditol, according to the ad, is the District’s answer for how to borrow $800 billion for a stimulus that “didnt create jobs,“ nor ”improve the economy.”
The ad asserts Spenditol “makes you feel better now” by pushing off the “really bad stuff” for later, when, presumably, future generations can “deal with” it.
But the drug Spenditol does not come without its side effects. According to the ad, the drug may cause a “mountain of government debt piled on our kids, a sudden loss of freedoms, higher prices for everything…”
Still, the ad urges viewers to “ask your doctor or congressman if your conscience is strong enough for Spenditol.”
The $1.2 million ad buy is allegedly set to run nationally on cable and locally in Florida, Montana, Nebraska and Ohio — four states where incumbent Democratic senators reportedly face a tough road ahead.
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