Check out this comment on this op-ed. Sounds like something that
the Dems did in 2008 and this year both.
11/10/2010 - 4:06pm EDT |Tgossard
My suggestion: a no-compromise, brick-wall stand that we will "stay the
course" on health care reform, and excoriate the GOP for repealing or
defunding any part of it. Tell the press every chance you get that *it
is working* now, today, tomorrow, helping individuals an families get
higher quality, lower cost health care. "And, it will only get better."
Make up stuff to show you are right if necessary (fake it 'til you make
it): invite individuals and heads of households to write the President,
then come to the White House and tell how health care reform is working
for them. Then find some who will do exactly that, one a week for say,
six months. Hold the initiative, and never give ground.
Second, say to the people that you got the message about tax cutting,
and you now propose the following radical action. Keep the middle class
tax cut, don't waiver. Additionally, you propose "biggest tax cut ever
in the history of our nation" for small business owners, as the
centerpiece of to reduce unemployment immediately. A bill to return
money (in the form of tax relief to the state governors to use as they
need to return people to work.
Do it, just do it, take the gamble it will work, then *make it work*,
any way, real or apparent. That way you don't have to spend anything
more (in actuality you will spend more).
Rhetoric alone won't suffice to reverse the tide of public opinion, and
leave open the option (which later on you can exercise) to reduce
(increase) the program and expenses as needed.
Democrats are smarter, are we not, and marginally more trusted by people
to manage the economy? We can also lie at least as well as the GOP I
should hope. It's a huge risk to take, but it might work to keep the
White House and regain House of Representatives in 2012. Beat the GOP by
seizing on their intention to cut and dismember, and spend by means of
short term revenue reduction through tax cuts or whatever traditional
Republican strategies have been. Don't pay any attention to tea
partiers. They will fade in due time if we seize and hold the
intitative, without sacrificing a jot of what we worked so hard and long
to achieve. No compromise meets no compromise, pick your winner.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: This is a perfect example of why I don't read
Leftist/Socialist publications...
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:12:51 -0500
From: Kerwin, Michael <[email protected]>
To: 'dick thompson' <[email protected]>
_http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/79037/obama-60-minutes-big-government_
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