Commentary: Republican strategy of deny, delay and do nothing - CNN.com
Begala and James Carvelle were Slick Willie's combination spinmeisters and attack dogs. It seems that they have come back to town to help shore up BO. Here Begala picks up a thread from BO himself prior to the press conference. It is a good study in how the sheep are fleeced.
The core is to act much like a magician with misdirection -- BO insinuated that it was either "His way or NOTHING" relative to the "stimulous". A slightly better mathamatician may point out right away that just numerically alone there are over $800 Billion answers between his and "nothing".
While not a direct lie (I'm sure there is SOME Republican, SOMEWHERE that wants to do NOTHING), it awfully hard to find the space to call it "misleading". I think that any fair minded person would realize that if it was Bush making the claim, it would be called "A LIE!!!!" by Begala himself and most all of the MSM. So BO's statement is mathamatically false by $800 Billion+, and rhetorically as close to out and out lying as one can get even with a massive benefit of the doubt.
Do some Republicans think that there should be some thought put in before $800+ Billion is spent? Well, yes indeed -- I guess that is "delay", but if one thinks about it for more than one hyperpartisan second, I think most of us would at least give some passing thought before we plunked down $800 Billion -- especially on what won't be spent until 2010 and 2011 -- exactly where IS the fire on that? Oh, yes -- it is of course $800 Billion that we don't have. I guess he is "honest" on "Delay", but is that not potentially a GOOD thing?
"Deny". I think most folks in business, fianance and the markets feel that the constant "this is another depression", "capitalism has failed", "this is the worst economy since the depression", etc is not, shall we say, "helpful". In much the same vein as "$800 Billion or nothing", there are some finer points between a GDP boom of 6% and absolute economic zero -- 100% unemployment and 0 output, everyone starves. Although firmly in charge of both houses of congress and busily spinning economic woes from those posts for two years prior to the election, Democrats (and the MSM) felt that the economy needed to be strongly talked down. I must admit, they did one heck of a job and folks are pretty well demoralized. Good job!
I'm thinking though, that one fine day they may wake up and realize that those reins of power are ALL firmly in their hands. They only need a couple Republican RINO votes to get around the filibuster rule, and they need no others. The only reason that they need "Bi-partisanship" is political cover -- as BO so succinctly put it, "they won". At some point, I suspect that Americans will tire of "the failed policies" rhetoric and ask the question "what have you Democrats done for us lately?". Something tells me that "Deny" will be raised to a whole new level!
Begala and James Carvelle were Slick Willie's combination spinmeisters and attack dogs. It seems that they have come back to town to help shore up BO. Here Begala picks up a thread from BO himself prior to the press conference. It is a good study in how the sheep are fleeced.
The core is to act much like a magician with misdirection -- BO insinuated that it was either "His way or NOTHING" relative to the "stimulous". A slightly better mathamatician may point out right away that just numerically alone there are over $800 Billion answers between his and "nothing".
While not a direct lie (I'm sure there is SOME Republican, SOMEWHERE that wants to do NOTHING), it awfully hard to find the space to call it "misleading". I think that any fair minded person would realize that if it was Bush making the claim, it would be called "A LIE!!!!" by Begala himself and most all of the MSM. So BO's statement is mathamatically false by $800 Billion+, and rhetorically as close to out and out lying as one can get even with a massive benefit of the doubt.
Do some Republicans think that there should be some thought put in before $800+ Billion is spent? Well, yes indeed -- I guess that is "delay", but if one thinks about it for more than one hyperpartisan second, I think most of us would at least give some passing thought before we plunked down $800 Billion -- especially on what won't be spent until 2010 and 2011 -- exactly where IS the fire on that? Oh, yes -- it is of course $800 Billion that we don't have. I guess he is "honest" on "Delay", but is that not potentially a GOOD thing?
"Deny". I think most folks in business, fianance and the markets feel that the constant "this is another depression", "capitalism has failed", "this is the worst economy since the depression", etc is not, shall we say, "helpful". In much the same vein as "$800 Billion or nothing", there are some finer points between a GDP boom of 6% and absolute economic zero -- 100% unemployment and 0 output, everyone starves. Although firmly in charge of both houses of congress and busily spinning economic woes from those posts for two years prior to the election, Democrats (and the MSM) felt that the economy needed to be strongly talked down. I must admit, they did one heck of a job and folks are pretty well demoralized. Good job!
I'm thinking though, that one fine day they may wake up and realize that those reins of power are ALL firmly in their hands. They only need a couple Republican RINO votes to get around the filibuster rule, and they need no others. The only reason that they need "Bi-partisanship" is political cover -- as BO so succinctly put it, "they won". At some point, I suspect that Americans will tire of "the failed policies" rhetoric and ask the question "what have you Democrats done for us lately?". Something tells me that "Deny" will be raised to a whole new level!
