Consult your doctor if you elect a bonehead for more than four years.

The Republicans are working on “rebranding” themselves. This concept amuses me already, because it’s clearly based in marketing. They’re working on changing their image, rather than themselves, because clearly their underlying assumption is that they’re the Right Buncha Folks To Get Work Done, and the only problem is that the public misunderstands them. I mean somehow disregarding the fact that they’ve been running the country for the last seven years and it’s gone to shit, really anyone who buys gas or dies in a bridge collape or lives in a formaldehyde trailer can tell you how well they’ve done, but whatever.

Here’s a piece of the “leaked” message about the rebranding details, which really, my jaw just drops:

Washington is broken, the American people want it fixed, and Democrats in Washington have proven unable or unwilling to get the job done. Republicans will. Americans have seen first-hand the change Democrats are making, and it is moving America in the wrong direction. To the American people, we say that Republicans will deliver “the change you deserve.”

Uch. Yeah, the change we deserve. The change we deserve away from you. It’s just so…I mean, the change in the country because of Democrats? The part of that the Dems are actually responsible for is when they couldn’t find enough backbone to prevent the Republicans from doing whatever they wanted, ugh I just can’t even keep that in my head without getting all pissed about it.

But the fun part is, there’s some entertainment in building their brand around “the change we deserve”:

Crooks and Liars » GOP’s Inadvertently Fitting New Slogan

Think Progress » Republicans vote against Mother’s Day.

Seriously.

This is what the Republicans in the House have become. First they raise a bill about how great Moms are, and then it’s unanimously passed earlier in the week, and then somehow they bring it up for vote recount, and then they vote against it. For some reason.

I mean the overall reason is because they’re stalling. They’re pissed they don’t have control of the House and now the mortgage bill and the war apprpriations bill has been pushed to next week. I think they consider this a “win”. But after all that, why even vote against a fluff timewaster at all? Why not just ring up another unanimous vote?

Maybe they’ve had a change of heart and decided they don’t like moms anyway. Hell, they’ve already voted against nuns, maybe next week they’ll pass HR1157, “Finding adorable, precocious orphans shining shoes on the corner and taking their money and pushing them in the mud.”

edit: Oh, okay, I get it. They had the original vote, then Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.) had a motion to reconsider the vote.  Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) moved to table his revote request, which itself needed a vote, and that’s the one that the Republicans voted against. So it seems like sloppy reporting to this point, I mean, they didn’t vote against mothers exactly. Irritating that I had to go make sense out of that myself.