Salt Lake Crawler -- A Politico report on a GOP dirty-tricks squad makes Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz look like a complete tool of Minority Whip Eric Cantor.Cantor's newest partisan strategy is to put together embarrassing YouTube clips of vulnerable Democratic freshmen to undercut their re-election chances. Cantor’s aides send e-mails to Chaffetz and other members of this elite "attack team" when targeted Democrats are speaking on the floor. Cantor's minions even include scripts to focus the questioning.
But YouTube videos of rookies trying to debate can cut both ways, says Politico.
Of course, these attacks don’t always work out. Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly, a veteran of party politics, quickly turned a Chaffetz challenge against his attacker. The Utah freshman also appeared flustered when Kilroy left the floor recently as he launched another line of questioning about her AIG vote.
MSNBC has followed up with embarassing side-by-side videos proving that Chaffetz and other GOP House attack members are reading from a script. (Chaffetz appears about two minutes into the report.)
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