Help with debt ceiling messaging

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday April 10, 2011 · 3:29 PM PDT

2011/04/10 · 15:29

I don't have much illusion that anything I write makes much of a difference in national politics, but occasionally I try to come up with better ways of expressing progressive and populist values when I don't think the message is getting through. I'm having a hard time doing that with the debt ceiling, or at least making a sound bite. Here's my best effort so far:

"Tea Partiers are offering a choice between crashing the U.S. recovery or crashing the world economy, and we know there's a better way: restoring the tax rate on those least affected by the recession to the rates they were in the time of the greatest prosperity."

It's not bad, but it could be better. More after the jump...

mdeatherage

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday October 28, 2009 · 2:23 PM PDT

2009/10/28 · 14:23

The Oklahoma Bank[st]ers Association is spending their money on a series of television commercials designed to scare people into believing that additional financial regulation means that the government will come into your home and tell you how to spend your money. Here's the punchline:

If you're concerned about having the government involved in your decisions, you're going to love having them balance your checkbook!

Video and transcript after the jump.

mdeatherage

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday April 23, 2009 · 2:42 AM PDT

2009/04/23 · 02:42

I haven't been able to read everything the past week or so, but I'm really beginning to wonder:

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting the idea that Cheney and Rove are attacking Obama now just to protect themselves in the future?

Specifically, that if they're later indicted or otherwise prosecuted, they'll claim that's simply political retribution for their comments against President Obama?

This all seems oddly familiar for some reason…

Poll

90 votes Show Results

What's behind the attacks on President Obama?

90 votes Vote Now!

What's behind the attacks on President Obama?

Political machinations

12 votes

Setting up future accusations of political prosecutions

23 votes

The normal GOP total lack of self-awareness, accusing others of what they've done

21 votes

It's all they've got

32 votes

Genuine, principled difference of opinion

2 votes

McCain and the Swift Boater: I think you're missing something

mdeatherage

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday July 04, 2008 · 12:49 AM PDT

2008/07/04 · 00:49

Oh, sure, everyone here caught that during the week, Sen. McCain put one of the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" on his campaign conference call to attack Gen. Wesley Clark. We all caught the irony and the outrage. But you may not have noticed that this guy, George "Bud" Day, isn't just any old SBVFT participant.

mdeatherage

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday September 21, 2007 · 4:30 PM PDT

2007/09/21 · 16:30

The one thing I dislike about Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" segment is that he never takes on NBC News or MSNBC personalities. From Tucker Carlson to Chris Matthews, there's a lot of stupidity at that network too, but whether because he's told not to or because he doesn't want to wage internal war, Olbermann never mentions it—the Imus battle a notable exception.

That's why you won't see NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams listed for tonight's Worst Person in the World, a spot he justly deserves for this report slipped in after a standard wank piece about MoveOn.org and news that Barry Bonds will do something else next year:

mdeatherage

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday July 24, 2007 · 6:59 PM PDT

2007/07/24 · 18:59

Don't get me wrong—there's plenty to mock in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's "testimony" before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. But is it just possible that the notoriously unqualified Gonzales has done the Constitution a favor today by, perhaps accidentally, telling the truth about something?

More after the jump!

Poll

131 votes Show Results

Is it time for Congress to enact clear rules for cabinet-level disability and recusal?

131 votes Vote Now!

Is it time for Congress to enact clear rules for cabinet-level disability and recusal?

Yes—if "there are no rules," abuse is too likely

74 votes

Yes—but our politicians don't have the will to do it right

22 votes

I don't care—politicians don't obey the laws anyway

16 votes

No—it'll just turn into another partisan tool somewhere

10 votes

No—the current system is flexible and we need that

9 votes

"You don't understand the enemy - we need the Patriot Act," etc.

mdeatherage

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday September 25, 2006 · 9:39 AM PDT

2006/09/25 · 09:39

Why don't I see Democrats pointing out that Republicans are admitting, every day, that they're too incompetent to hold office? Something like this:

The U.S. Constitution has been a beacon of light and hope to the world for 217 years. It survived our civil war. It got us through World War I intact. We won World War II without violating the Geneva Conventions against torture. We won the Cold War without throwing away our civil rights. Now Conrad Burns and George W. Bush are saying that they can't defend the country against 19 guys with box cutters unless we flush the Constitution down the toilet. Since Senator Burns so readily admits he cannot defend the nation and the Constitution as he's sworn to do, isn't it time he gives up his office to someone who can?

Or am I missing something?

mdeatherage

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday September 06, 2006 · 4:56 PM PDT

2006/09/06 · 16:56

In his "exclusive" interview with CBS News' Katie Couric today, President Bush may have had another "catapult the propaganda" moment when he said:

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."

More context in the extended entry.

mdeatherage

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday May 12, 2006 · 12:47 PM PDT

2006/05/12 · 12:47

Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK), as noted previously, was rewarded for voting against the Democratic party more often than any other Democratic representative (and, simultaneously, for voting with President Bush more than any other Democrat save one) with a position as Assistant Minority Whip by Steny "Steven Colbert shouldn't be mean to Our Leader" Hoyer.

Now Boren is back in Oklahoma's biggest Republican newspaper bragging about how often he defies the party, and putting the party on notice that he is right and everyone else is wrong:

Boren said Thursday, "I cannot move to where (Democratic leaders) want me to be. If I were to do the things the (Democratic) caucus wanted me to do, I would be unelectable in Oklahoma. If (Democrats) want to be in the majority, they're going to have to try electing people like myself."

mdeatherage

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday April 21, 2006 · 10:10 PM PDT

2006/04/21 · 22:10

If a Democratic president and Democratic vice-president were both oil millionaires, and had started a war in an oil-producing country that created enough uncertainty to raise the price of oil to new records, and then made noise about starting a nuclear war in another oil-producing country, and that had sent the price of crude oil above $75 per barrel one Friday for the first time in history…

…then right now, at 1:05 AM EDT on the immediately following Saturday morning, we would be watching the impeachment hearings on C-SPAN, if not the actual Senate trial. Irate blond SUV-owning angry women would be shouting in picture-in-picture on every cable news channel about how the administration had screwed over American families and children to enrich POTUS, VPOTUS, and all their friends and contributors. Talk radio would be organizing riots at shopping malls. It would never, never end.

Just so we're clear on how seriously they'd take the situation if it were very slightly different.

DINOs as House Assistant Whips?

mdeatherage

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday March 03, 2006 · 8:43 AM PST

2006/03/03 · 08:43

This small article from The Oklahoman all but speaks for itself:

U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, who opposed his party more often than any other U.S. House member last year, is part of the Democratic team of "whips" that tracks votes on key issues. Boren, of Muskogee, announced Wednesday he has been named an assistant whip.

The rest inside. Read More

Why can't it work?

mdeatherage

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday January 29, 2006 · 7:20 PM PST

2006/01/29 · 19:20

Pepper, writing over at Ezra's (type) Pad:

I have no illusions that Alito can be stopped at the last minute…

I've seen that a lot in the past few days, and I just have to ask: Why is there no hope that Alito can be kept off the United States Supreme Court? (More after the flip.)

Newer
Older

RSS

Help with debt ceiling messaging

Oklahoma Banksters: We're better than the government!

Cheney and Rove: A short question

McCain and the Swift Boater: I think you're missing something

Brian Williams: Today's Worst Person in the World?

Did Gonzales do the Constitution a favor today?

"You don't understand the enemy - we need the Patriot Act," etc.

Bush: "My job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror"

DINO Rep. Boren brags about sabotaging the party

Congress would be in session overnight. You know they would.

DINOs as House Assistant Whips?

Why can't it work?