Re: Fwd: This is a perfect example of why I don't read Leftist/Socialist publications...

I don't much like either side.....BUt I want to see what the
Republicans come up with in the way of a jobs program ( I'll believe
that one when I see it)... r-i-i-i-ight.

On Nov 10, 4:56 pm, dick thompson <rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>      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 <Michael.Ker...@ssa.gov>
> To:     'dick thompson' <rhomp2...@earthlink.net>
>
> _http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/79037/obama-60-minutes-big-gove...- Hide quoted text -
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