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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 12:34 PM
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The Imperial Executive
It just occured to me, we're using THEIR frame again. We have a chance to get ahead of this, I think we should email all our left leaning publications, bloggers and think tanks and tell them to NOT EVER say unitarian executive and substitute Imperial Executive, because that's what it really is. I was starting to read this thread and realized they've won half the battle just to get us to use that ambiguous term that they just made up.

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mom cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 12:38 PM
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1. There you go! That is what it is!
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Surya Gayatri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 12:40 PM
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2. You are so right, sand
We must exploit and frame language the way they do. And "IMPERIAL" is no exaggeration. SG
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 12:48 PM
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3. You're SO right!
Dems should STOP using the GOP-generated vocabulary, and call things what they are.

Example: There are two camps when it comes to abortion rights: Pro-Choice and ANTI-CHOICE! This Pro-Life crap is as representative of anti-choicers as the 'Clean Skies Initiative' is of lax anti-polltion laws.
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LiberalPartisan Donating Member (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 12:57 PM
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4. Great Catch!!
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 01:24 PM
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5. Good point.

I personally think that we ought to come right out and call it what it is: a one party tyranny led by an imperial executive, but I'd settle for the more sound-biteish imperial executive.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-22-06 01:41 PM
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6. Exactly. 95% of people have no clue what "unitary executive theory" is.
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