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In reply to the discussion: The Shutdown Party. A great editorial from USA Today [View all]calimary
(81,304 posts)"The Shutdown Party"! Well, let's see - what does THAT reinforce, as far as messaging? All the things WE want to see, that's what! Mainly - that this can, should, and MUST be blamed on the actual source of all this grief: the GOP. It's THEY who are pushing us over the cliff. It's THEY who are intransigent, compared to a President who has reached out again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again, compromising, offering concessions, trying to meet them more than half-way, and these bastards rebuff him at every turn. Every time he's extended his hand, since he GOT THERE five years ago, they've spit into it. EVERY time! And some of 'em even shat in it, too. At EVERY turn. And they're trying to pull this bullshit about how THEY have tried to compromise? Man, they've got to be on drugs!!!
I'm VERY glad to see this! With publications like "USA Today" labeling the GOP as baldly honestly as it deserves, that meme - that framing - that MESSAGING - will sink in and take root. THAT'S WHAT WE WANT!!!!!
I also am extremely pleased to hear so much repetition and recurrence of the themes of "hostage-taking" and "extortion" that are in the narrative now. That's how this is being described, and the talking heads, in turn, are also using these terms, and THEY are becoming part of the messaging as well.
This is a GREAT thing!!! Helps make our case. And it has the added benefit of being TRUE!!!!