4 years, 3300 more dead Americans...otherwise, no change

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Wednesday April 09, 2008 · 2:51 AM PDT

2008/04/09 · 02:51

Here's a blast from the past. I was digging around the old dkos posts from 2003-2004 and found this gem.

(This is a repost from last Saturday.)

Atrios gets it right. To defeat Bush on the issue of national defense, the issue must be reframed. No more talk about Bush's "strong leadership" post-9-11. There was none.

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Who will McCain invade first?

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Iran

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Venezuela

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North Korea

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Canada

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To EVERYONE in Michigan

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Tuesday June 19, 2007 · 2:49 AM PDT

2007/06/19 · 02:49

Rep. John Dingell is holding up a proposal to increase CAFE standards. Sens. Levin and Stabenow are offering a watered down version of it. We don't have time for more moderation on this issue. Our oil consumption MUST go down. This forced grassroots subsidizing of the oil industries must stop. Our CO2 emissions have to start going down. And Dingell's holding it up.

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Responsible, taking care of an important industry

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Shortsighted, this will hurt everyone, especially his constituents

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Corporate puppet who's out of touch

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How do we frame the withdrawal?

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Friday April 27, 2007 · 2:35 PM PDT

2007/04/27 · 14:35

We've got a problem. We've started reframing issues pretty well, with the surge/escalation thing. But what do we do with the supplemental/withdrawal bill? We don't have the right language for it. As far as I can see, withdrawal is the best we've got.

Withdrawal means a lot of things, none of them positive. It's a retreat, a defeat, an ineffective birth control method, what you suffer when you stop taking something you're addicted to. None of those are good, and we don't want those kinds of associations.

This can't be framed as a retreat. I've tried "ending the war" and "bringing the troops home" but those are too long and awkward, and not likely to make headlines.

What do you all think? How can we reframe this issue? The only phrases we have going around there are "slow-bleed" and "withdrawal". We gotta change this.

The electorate is NOT anti-incumbent; it's anti-Republican

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Wednesday September 06, 2006 · 9:25 PM PDT

2006/09/06 · 21:25

We've been hearing a lot from the media about how voters are in an "anti-incumbent" mood. I would have to say the "anti-incumbent" label is false--anti-republican is a much better fit. Once again, the media is killing us with hostile framing, excusing the republicans and instead blaming incumbents in general for all the nation's problems. Read More

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