"Vouchercare" - the Obama response to $716 bn

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Sunday August 19, 2012 · 9:43 PM PDT

2012/08/19 · 21:43

A brilliant comment posted earlier should not go unnoticed.

Vouchercare.

This is how Team Obama reverses the tide on the Medicare claims from Romney / Ryan. Pin it on them -- they don't have a solid alternative to offer about HOW they make Medicare solvent.

Vouchercare.

And they better get to it quick... if Dems rest on the "conventional wisdom" that the electorate will not believe that Republicans can save Medicare when Dems can't, we're going to find out how unrestricted spending by SuperPACs can manufacture just about anything in the minds of swing voters. Team Obama did not win the news cycle this week on this issue, and is playing defense on the Sunday talk shows.

They need an alternative crisp message to pin back on the other side and get back on the offensive.

Vouchercare.

2012 Campaign Endgame: Medicare Ad War

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Sunday August 12, 2012 · 2:56 PM PDT

2012/08/12 · 14:56

Making a prediction now for the rest of the campaign.

Romney campaign and PACs will outspend Obama on ads aimed at shaping public perception around Tea Party issues that energized Republicans in 2010. They will argue that Romney / Ryan will save Medicare while Obama has been destroying it with Obamacare. Exhibit A is Reince Priebus this Sunday. Exhibit B is the likelihood that the Republicans will be able to outraise Obama, the opposite of what happened in 2008.

We'll see...

Bush: We Will Be In Baghdad in Two Weeks, Feb 22nd, 2003 with Spain's PM

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Wednesday September 26, 2007 · 3:21 PM PDT

2007/09/26 · 15:21

From the transcript:

President Bush: Saddam Husein will not change and will keep on playing games. The time has come to get rid of him. That's the way it is. For my part, I will try, from now on, to use the most subtle rhetoric possible, while we seel approval of the resolution. If somebody vetoes it [Russia, China and France, alongside the US and UK, have veto power as permanent members of the Security Council], we will go [into Iraq?]. Saddam Hussein is not disarming. We must get him right now. We have shown an incredible degree of patience until now. There are two weeks left. In two weeks' time we will be militarily ready. I believe that we will obtain the second resolution. In the Security Council we have the three Africans [Cameroon, Angola and Guinea], and also the Chileans, the Mexicans. I will speak with all of them, also with Putin, naturally. We will be in Baghdad at the end of March.

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Thursday August 23, 2007 · 6:35 PM PDT

2007/08/23 · 18:35

By flip-flopping on the Vietnam analogy, Bush is playing the opening gambit in the talking points war over Iraq coming in September.

Consider the following logic:

The most powerful argument against staying in Iraq is the comparison to Vietnam. (IRAQ = VIETNAM)

The White House needs a way to refute this argument in the minds of the American public.

Therefore, Bush embraces the comparison, but turns it on its head, saying the real lesson of Vietnam is that we left too soon.

The quickest way for the opposition to respond is to deny the comparison to Vietnam. (IRAQ != VIETNAM)

Whoops.

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Wednesday August 08, 2007 · 11:24 AM PDT

2007/08/08 · 11:24

The Wall Street Journal has a featured article today arguing why the FISA amendments are so great. I don't have time to deconstruct this argument point by point today. But I think it is important that we present a full throated rebuttal to the (bad) arguments on the other side. I think that an intelligent rebuttal might even get posted on the site as a response (perhaps too optimistic). If you get a chance, please do.

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