The GOP is looking for a sequel to last summer’s blockbuster “Drill Baby Drill”, which received mixed reviews:
“This year, everyone’s thinking maybe they’ll actually come up with grown-up things to say,” said Republican energy lobbyist Michael McKenna, president of MWR Strategies. “‘Drill, baby, drill’ impeded the conversation. We energy guys hated it.”
[…]“‘Drill, baby, drill’ is a great slogan, but it’s not enough,” he (Gov. Tim Pawlenty) said. “We need to identify with emerging issues and get ahead of them.”
All eyes are now turning to new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who coined the phrase, and some lawmakers hope he might crank out another infectious slogan.
I think we may be nearing the end of civilization.
In the meantime, any ideas for a new phrase? All that comes to mind for me, given Steele’s eerie likeness to that guy from Digital Underground, is “do the pumpty pump”. But I’m not sure that’s hip or infectious enough.
Stuck
Joe Blow From Kokomo
robertdsc
Nailin Palin.
Comrade Dread
"F*** the polar bears."
"Kill nature before nature kills you."
"Why send money to rich, corrupt overseas a$$holes when we have so many local ones?"
Martin
How about ‘No!’
That seems to be all they got anyway.
Michael Scott
Oh, I don’t know.
These assclowns seem to think "Shrill, baby, shrill" is working fine for them at the moment.
calling all toasters
"Bye bye blackguy"
charlotte
Who cares if we boil?
Let’s go get that oil!
Yo —
Why is the GOP so tacky? And not in a good way.
Stuck
"It’s not our fault"
DougJ
Not bad.
Slightly reminiscent of “bippity boppity, give me the zoppity”.
amorphous
How do you spell the sound insane people make? I’m thinking it’s something along the lines of:
GARBBBBBULLLFRALCKLEHAUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
But my spelling may be off, so they may want to run it by an editor before they go with that one.
1jpb
"Prayin for failin and Palin."
Lev
"Don’t let the census go defenseless!"
BTW, the PJTV ad makes Joe The Kinda-Plumber look like Michael Chiklis.
Keith
"I…WANT…MY…CHEESY-BREAD!"
SpotWeld
Failure Then,
Failure Now,
Failure Forever!
(Also, Palin)
SpotWeld
"GOP: Still looking for that pony"
Jay in Oregon
I can’t make up my mind. Should I submit:
"Just leave your keys in the mailbox and turn the lights out."
or:
"I’m sorry, but we do not cover pre-existing conditions."
Lev
Republicans 2010: If we win, could the last person to leave America turn the lights out after them?
(Yes, it’s an homage to a certain famous British headline…)
Comrade Dread
SPOON!
Stuck
We Drill in Alaska
you bet your ass’ya
SpotWeld
GOP: You betcha
Bubblegum Tate
"Oil forever
Go green never!"
DougJ
And it should be lost on no one that they’re counting on the one black guy in the party to come up with the hip phrase. Why don’t they have him come up with a cool Republican break dance while they’re at it?
BDeevDad
Twitter me this,
Twitter me that,
Just don’t tweet
like a stupid twat
(I know, Near Rhyme)
Mike G
"…maybe they’ll actually come up with grown-up things to say,”
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
The Repigs have turned politics into the Special Olympics, where we’re supposed to praise Bush and Palin for showing up and blathering retarded nonsense even though they knocked down all the hurdles.
cleek
how bout: The Sheriff is a Ni****!
a classic
Delia
Hey, Blackwater’s changing it’s name to Xe.
And Gary Bauer wants you to stop calling his people the Religious Right and start calling them "socially conservative evangelicals."
Because if it turns out your obnoxious behavior and slogans just piss people off and make them hate you, the solution is obvious. Come up with a new slogan or name and go right on pissing people off. That’ll fix the problem every time.
Rex
GOP: Dropping Shafts Wherever We’re Not Wanted
NutellaonToast
How about "Think, baby, think!"
Oh, wait, I forgot, you have to ask for things that are politically feasible, not what’s actually best for the country.
God damn these morons. They are all just like Bush. They think the problem is just their "rhetoric."
BDeevDad
I guess they really don’t like the Catholics and Mormons anymore.
UnkyT
I am Locutus of Borg, and we are one
Tonal Crow
"Shagrat, baby, Shag-a-rat!"
jprice vincenz
If that cool kat Mike Steele is coming up with signature lines, I’m sure he’ll come up with something like "bling digity" or "blingbingmahommierespectyo?" I bet Barbara Walters will love it so much she’ll be repeating it on The View with Hasslecrack.
DesertScorpion
@NutellaonToast:
Is this a Nutella thread? The stuff tastes like crap.
iluvsummr
Let’s see:
send the deficit north
add more tax cuts
ronathan richardson
Highways for some, museums for none, tax cuts for all…except the poor.
nylund
There’s an old Simpsons episode where Bart, famous for never taking responsibility over his actions, is on the Krusty the Clown show. He quite obviously, but accidentally, knocks a bunch of stuff over on live TV, but instinctively answers, "I didn’t do it." His denial of something he obviously did is just so absurd that the audience starts laughing at how comical his denial is.
He becomes quite famous as the, "I didn’t do it" kid and starts a running gag on the Krusty show where he causes horrible things to happen, only to then turn to the camera and say, "I didn’t do it." People laugh.
It becomes a running joke throughout Springfield, and we see various characters claiming, "I didn’t do it" when they are caught having done something bad. This causes everyone within earshot to start laughing hysterically, instead of reacting with anger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fw8_xvLj-4
Be it the FDA, environmental issues, global warming, the national debt, the financial crisis, or what have you. The republicans are trying hard to deny responsibility for the actions they so obviously caused.
So, I think the "I didn’t do it" gag would be entirely appropriate for them. Only this time, I don’t think anyone will be laughing.
NutellaonToast
@DesertScorpion: WTF? Dick much?
phillip anderson
i swear to god, i thought that was going to link to the onion. for reals.
Legalize
I Got Mine; Fuck You!
Tonal Crow
"Ask not what you can do for your country,
but what you can do *to* your country."
SpotWeld
GOP: North to Alaska.
I wonder if they could get the rights to the Elvis Music.
DesertScorpion
WTF? Are you kidding me? The stuff tastes like shit.
What are you, a stockholder?
Svensker
No to Tay-ra, yes to Say-ra.
No to Big O, yes to Joe-O.
We know taxes make big fat asses,
Those lazy welfare cheats got enough to eats.
I think the last couplet is particularly intellectual.
Andy K
The evolution will not be televised.
Play it to the base of fundies.
NutellaonToast
@DesertScorpion:
Yeah, NO ONE likes chocolate and hazelnuts. I’ve barely even heard of them…..
And yes, I named myself after something I find disgusting. How’d you know?
iluvsummr
tax cuts for the rich are patriotic
spending on the poor is tres despotic
Ash Can
Actually, I never did call them "the religious right" in the first place. I call them "blasphemers" in polite company and "fucking lunatics" otherwise.
Zifnab
GOP: The only things we abort are TAXES!
The Republican Party: Don’t think of it as unemployment, think of it as a tax cut.
Conservatives: If you don’t vote for us, we’ll outsource you to China.
Death to America!
DesertScorpion
How’d I know? I’ve tasted the stuff.
Even the insects I hang around with (and eat) won’t eat that crap. They’d rather eat bird droppings.
Pa-tooey!
DougJ
How about “be a party of one”?
camchuck
"Welcome to the Republican Party; please leave your intellectual honesty at the door."
Tonal Crow
@nylund: I couldn’t resist resurrecting this post of mine, from the days when Yahoo still had news message boards:
It’s the liberals. It’s the ACLU. It’s Clinton. It’s Monica. It’s the "climate of permissiveness". It’s France. It’s the liberal media. It’s Clinton’s p*nis. It’s Hillary. It’s Gov. Dean. We never could have known they’d fly planes into buildings. "No actionable intelligence". They didn’t tell us to do anything. O’Neill’s lying. Clarke’s lying. General Shinseki’s lying. The Union of Concerned Scientists is lying. Our own weapons inspectors lied. Wilson’s lying. John Dean’s lying. Newsweek lied! CBS lied! Woodward lied! Everyone’s lying but us. We had to lie. We never lied.
Plame outed herself. Her husband outed her. The liberals outed her. No one outed her, since everyone already knew her covert identity. Libby had nothing to do with it. No comment. Lib’ral, lib’ral, lib’ral.
It’s the libs trying to pull Schiavo’s feeding tube. It doesn’t matter that DeLay pulled his own dad’s feeding tube. "Culture of life". It’s Janet Jackson’s boobs; it’s the Statue of Justice’s boobs. Reading the news might cloud my judgement. It’s the "decade our government…blinded itself to our enemies". It’s the homosexuals wanting to marry. "Restore honor and dignity to the White House". A decision to go to war wasn’t a decision to go to war. "No actionable intelligence". It’s the pledge of allegiance. They’re taking God out of America. Osama didn’t tell us when, how, where, and by what means he’d attack, and he didn’t leave a forwarding address. The 9/11 panel is biased against us. Saddam = Al Qaida. Saddam = Al Qaida.
Chalabi’s an honorable man and I believe everything he says about WMDs. Chalabi’s a crook and he passed secrets to Iran. Chalabi’s the liberals’ fault because they didn’t shoot us when we started using his "intelligence". Chalabi? I don’t know any ‘Chalabi’!
It’s just a few dead-enders. They’ll be gone when we capture Saddam. They’ll be gone when we capture Saddam’s sons. They’ll be gone when we hand over "sovereignty". They’ll be gone when Iraq has elections. They’ll be gone when Iraq’s permanent government comes in. They’ll be gone when we kill Zarqawi. They’ll be gone when we capture Abu Humam. They’ll be gone when we convict Saddam. They’ll be gone in 12 years. They’ll be gone in 12 to 18 months, with some level of U.S. support for the Iraq forces. They’ll never be gone.
We found the WMD! We didn’t find the WMD. We found the WMD! We didn’t find the WMD.
The libs who warned against the war in Iraq and want to withdraw are killing our troops, but the cons who put them onto the battlefield are saving their lives.
We fight them in London so we don’t have to fight them, er, uh, well, can’t get fooled again!
"I’m not satisfied with what’s going on in Iraq." "We’re winning in Iraq!"
"Torture" means exactly what I say it means, no more and no less. And waterboarding is not torture.
"I’m a uniter, not a divider!" It’s the stem cells. It’s the feminazis, the intellectual elitists, and the ecoterrorists.
It’s Cthulhu and the meltin’ ice caves of, er, no there ain’t no meltin’ ice caves, and our SUVs ain’t makin’ ’em melt!
It’s the martians.
It’s anyone but Bush.
Tara the antisocial social worker
What’d I do?!
I think we should stick with the classics: "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength."
PaulW
Tax cut this
Tax cut that
Pretty soon we’ll drive
This whole nation bats!
Palooza
GOP: Fuck America* (*Unless we are in power)
iluvsummr
GOP is God’s Own Party:
crafting America’s decline
through Intelligent Design
(I’m having way too much fun)
Volum
We’re not Bush either!
or
Please vote for us!
or
GOD in da GOP
DesertScorpion
You know, N.T, it’s not as if my life isn’t already hard enough.
But to have to eat Nutella? Puh-leeze.
SpotWeld
GOP: The Velveeta of Politcal Parties.
Ash Can
GOP slogans:
"We make shit up."
"We’ll say anything!"
"We don’t need no stinkin’ reality."
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
"When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout"
NutellaonToast
@DesertScorpion:
Stop it! You’re hurting my damn feelings! Stupid scorpion! Don’t eat people food next time!
DougJ
Okay, “oil: hit it, don’t quit it”.
Comrade Dread
Why settle for the lesser of two evils?
Reverend Dennis
"We’d rather have our country die for us."
Legalize
"Dear America, Fuck off and Die"
slag
@Comrade Dread: Or:
Not in the face! Not in the face!
charlotte
Will Nutella work in place of petrol?
If not, I still think it’s yummy if spread lightly. On toast.
Chris Johnson
Don’t you DARE give them ideas unless it ties them to stuff that’s more catastrophic.
I suggest "Bama’s failin, gimme Palin!". Tie ’em to Caribou Barbie. Even if all hell broke loose and she ended up in power, she would be too busy looting Neiman-Marcus to get into too much trouble.
…famous last words?
amorphous
@DesertScorpion: Take that back!
/Nusspli is better, though
Polish the Guillotines
"Stimulate THIS."
Comrade Dread
@Reverend Dennis
"Proudly leading America’s fighting men from thousands of miles away in a studio with a comfy chair."
Tonal Crow
"Allah Akbar" is the best suggestion I’ve heard so far for the GOP slogan.
MikeJ
"Face it, we’re gonna kill the puppy even if you do buy this magazine."
sgwhiteinfla
"If we don’t drill offshore we’re all gonna DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
NutellaonToast
@charlotte:
Damn right, girl! Now we’re seeing someone with taste!
ksmiami
The GOP: Privatized profits and socialized suffering?
The GOP: Achieving Diversity one token appointment at a time
ThymeZoneThePlumber
You guys are all Dems, right?
Well, do you see any Nutella in the stimulus package?
Heh. I think you should listen to Scorpion. The arachnid has good taste.
namekarB
Jump Dude, Extract Crude
amorphous
GOP: We’re pallin’ with Palin.
or
Take our ball and go home, baby, home.
/bracing for continuance of epic thread
Rommie
"recession/depression means secession" Maybe they’ll think they can get it right this time.
ppcli
Somehow I think this might be a potential winner in 2010: "So, you finally faced reality and you learned that reality sucks? Come on back to the GOP."
tomjones
Should the GOP really be openly admitting that they need to emphasize style more, instead of trying to get the substance right?
Joshua Norton
GOPhuck yourself.
Mike G
And Gary Bauer wants you to stop calling his people the Religious Right and start calling them "socially conservative evangelicals."
This Onion story comes to mind whenever someone mentions the Religious Right, Limbaugh or the Repigs in general —
Asshole Admits To Being Asshole In Supreme Asshole Move
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30572
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
How about this for a GOP slogan (a bit too long perhaps, but it explains so much about the last 8 years)
"Well, we did do the nose."
"And the hat,"
"but she is a witch!"
[Did you dress her up like this?]
"No!
No. No.
No.
No.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes. Yeah, a bit.
A bit.
A bit.
A bit.
She has got a wart."
iluvsummr
The GOP: drowning government in a bathtub since 1981
The GOP: keep all your taxes, build your own roads
The GOP: we put the w in whine
Jim
Win.
Atanarjuat
The anti-conservative hate is strong in this thread, especially given the slogan challenge. No surprises, of course, given the spiteful nature of the America Last rabble on BJ.
The upside to all to this leftist thuggery is that at least it’s keeping most of you in front of a PC or laptop, instead of roaming the streets in hopes of mugging a tax-paying Republican.
Thieves and con men, the whole lot of you. Enjoy your wealth redistributing 30 pieces of ill-gotten silver, courtesy of your Chosen Leader and Thug-in-Chief.
Kyle
Well, do you see any Nutella in the stimulus package?
Nutella is more addictive than crack.
mgordon
GOP ’10: If We’re Popular Again You Know the Country is Fucked.
ThymeZoneThePlumber
@Atanarjuat:
Your victim-fu defeats me!
NutellaonToast
@ThymeZoneThePlumber:
Whatever, you’re clearly a fascist. After all, Mussolini made the trains run on thyme.
ThymeZoneThePlumber
Maybe, but crack tastes better.
ThymeZoneThePlumber
I am not, I am an arachnophile.
Mako
Wolverines!
gbear
McPublicans: Over 20 billionaires served.
Tim Pawlenty’s motto: "Dear Corporate America: I’ve trashed our educational and social systems in order to put money in your pockets. Our cities have fewer cops and more homeless on the street so that you’re investors can receive a better dividend. I’ve defunded infrasturcture repair, higher education, and our state park systems so that you can afford that new home on Lake Minnetonka. So why the fuck are you still leaving the state? Let me show you this new tax cut first.
PS: TCF just moved their corporate headquarters to South Dakota. The head of TCF is a Pawlenty supporter who actually came up with a hit-list of Republicans that he wanted to defeat because they weren’t conservative enough. Then, when he got stopped for driving his snowmobile too fast, he took a small town to court just for the fun of draining the city’s budget to prosecute him. TCF stands for TWIN fucking CITY fucking FEDERAL. The name isn’t changing when they go to SD.
As Charlton Heston would say; Pawlenty! You Maniac! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
Joy
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that bling!
Polish the Guillotines
@Joshua Norton:
FTW.
Ditch Digger
"Nuke the whales? You can’t really believe that." – Lisa
"Meh, gotta nuke something" – Nelson
"Touche" – Lisa
Rome Again
@DesertScorpion:
I find this part especially interesting:
Rome Again
I think they’re going to drop the Drill, baby, drill and opt for kill, baby, kill in the not too distant future.
Suggestions for Dems?
Jesus doesn’t like Republican scum!
sgwhiteinfla
I rather like this quote from I Robot with Will Smith so maybe we can just repackage it
Detective Del Spooner: [to the head of USR] "I don’t usually do this, but since I’m here, I got a great idea for your next commercial. There’s a carpenter, and he builds this beautiful chair. And then a big business owner comes along and builds a better chair twice as fast, for half as much thanks to all the Republican tax breaks and because of their support in helping him keep his workers underpaid and non unionized and then it says: "GOP. Shittin’ on the little guy." Fade out."
Not necessarily about drilling for oil but I think it still applies.
Rome Again
@Joshua Norton:
That works too!
Rome Again
News for you Atan, Republicans are NOT conservative. There is a lot of Republican hate on this thread, and there should be. Look at what you’ve become. Take a look in the mirror and scream in horror with the rest of us when your eyes behold the shame.
gbear
Here is the book for the Sarah Palin Republican Party. Catchy title, there.
Mac from Oregon
Bury us, baby, bury us.
Death to American Dems, Vote GOP
Tippecanoe and Tyler too!
Old, white and in the way, baby.
Francis
The GOP: Proving that fat, drunk and stupid is a great way to go through life.
[hat tip to Animal House]
Cassidy the Racist White Man
"lets do this. Leeeeeerrroooooyyyy jeeeeennnkkkins"
ThymeZoneThePlumber
Fat and sugar! Somehow, that sounds …. Republican.
Left Coast Tom
"A chicken in every pot and a Hooverville in every town".
– GOP The Party
eponymous
In keeping with the current economic conditions and the GOP hoping the Democrats/Obama/stimulus fail, here’s two:
GOP to America: Drop Dead (see: New York Post)
or (from Milton):
"Tis better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven"
low-tech cyclist
My favorite’s Rev. Dennis’ "We’d rather have our country die for us." That’s certainly their game plan right now.
jenniebee
You know it’s going to be something like "America Loses when Liberals Win" but "Leeeeeeeerroooooooooyyyy Jennnnnnkinnnnnnnssss" is more in the spirit of the thing.
Manic Depression
Uh…John…the gentleman in the picture is Humpty-Hump. The song is "The Humpty Dance". The correct exhortation is "do the Humpty Hump", not ‘pumpty pump’. To quote Todd Rundgren "Some Folks is Even Whiter Than Me". That is all.
Conservatively Liberal
GOP:
* We Define Our Own Reality
* Down Is Up
* No Brains Required
* When Self-Hate Is Not Enough
* FOR SALE
* We Do Stuff
* Some Assembly Required
* Yes, We Still Exist
* Lubricate Before Insertion
* Warning: May Cause Blindness & Anal Leakage
* Bend Over & Grab Your Ankles
* Rapture Ready!
and finally:
* Shit Happens
Keith
Molest, creepy 60-year-old Congressman, molest!
Mako
Palin/Malkin 2012!
fallenmonk
Die Peon Die. See if I care.
Steeplejack
DougJ @ top:
I knew he reminded me of someone! Maybe we could take up a collection and get him a nice gigantic clock necklace thing.
Comrade Kevin
An especially good use for Nutella is on crêpes with strawberries.
ThymeZoneThePlumber
@Comrade Kevin:
I think the best thing to do with Nutella is use it to pack wheel bearings.
But that’s just me.
mikefromtexas
Pull my finger. All the grownups use that one. It also involves gas. Win-Win.
R-Jud
I’m repeating myself here, but I think Obama should’ve busted out the Humpty Dance immediately after taking the oath of office.
@mikefromtexas:
If the GOP were to start merely farting at us instead of shitting all over us, that’d be an improvement. So I don’t see it happening.
What about "WE WANT PIE!"?
@Steeplejack:
Eh, giant clocks are a Flavor Flav thing, not Humpty Hump. We should get him some Hennessey and crackers and licorice, judging by his own stated preferences.
Johnny Pez
One people, one country, one leader.
(Or has somebody already used that?)
jrg
"Mexicans want to eat your children. Vote for us."
"Oil execs know how to run a country, some of them are already running 3 or 4."
"Al Gore is fat, bitches!"
"Drill, America hating commie faggot, drill"
SGEW
"Fuck it! We’ll do it live!"
Farley
"Vote for a Democrat?
Spaghetti cat
Don’t do that."
Mac from Oregon
We learned from the Taliban, just not the right stuff.
War on Christmas- 24/7/365!
Christopher Williams
I just posted a few new GOP Slogans on my blog
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man
http://www.notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com
GOP: We Just Say No!
GOP: We Have Buns of Steele
GOP: More Addicting than an Oxycontin Rush…
GOP: Faster Pussycat, Drill, Drill, Drill!
GOP: Not Just for Right Wing Wackos Anymore
GOP: We Can See Congress from Our Front Porches
enjoy…