How should Obama deal with the new "Trickle Down Government" thing RobMe will say in the debate?

[RBInMaine]

He will say this again. It is how Frank Luntz has told them to blunt the longstanding "Trickle Down Economics" phrase. It is called the dodge-and-pivot move. That is, you address the attack by avoiding it and pivoting quick to an attack of your own. Other R's are starting to say it too. It has even reached our Senate race here in Maine. How should Obama respond?

I think he should say, "Sorry Governor, all the dancing and dodging isn't going to work. I have cut taxes for 95% of the population including 18 different tax cuts for small businesses. I have frozen spending and agreed to a trillion dollars in deficit reduction. You stand here and refuse to deny your top-down trickle-down supply-side economics theory that is OLD and BAD policy that has never worked and will not work now, because you can't deny it. Instead you are trying to dance around it. Well you don't get to. You know what your economic theory is and so do the American people. You refuse to ask the very richest to pay one cent more so that the middle class can have the break it deserves."

[Qutzupalotl]

1. That's a great response. n/t

[TrogL]

2. Then he needs to preach Keynes

Fix the infrastructure, produce jobs.

[Maeve]

3. And by the way...we the people ARE the government and we need to...

hire teachers, firefighters and police, rebuild our infrastructure and protect ourselves from pollution, unsafe food and drugs and vultures who use convoluted laws to steal from the sick and elderly.

[jenmito]

4. Or he could just say, "What does that even MEAN? It makes no sense!" n/t

[begin_within]

5. Just laugh at Romney and go on to his next point.

[RBInMaine]

6. No, SLAM HIS BULLSHIT. THAT is what must be done.

[Blaukraut]

7. "If by Trickle Down Government you mean Medicare, Social Security, Tax breaks for the middle class..

Funding for schools, firefighters and police, and keeping our infrastructure safe, then yes, I'm all in favor of trickle down government"