http://www.victorkamber.com/These have been difficult times for Republican “spinmeisters.” How do you “spin” it when President Bush weighs an issue like insurance company profits vs. health care for little kids and comes down proudly on the side of the insurance companies? Or when Vice President Cheney declares himself a fourth branch of government, accountable to no one?
Not that Tony Snow and his Fox TV adjunct press office isn’t up to the task (though the Cheney disclaimer was so weird that Snow sent out the blonde ditz, Dana Perino, to stifle questions with a smile and a giggle). On most issues where the Administration is totally at odds with common sense or decency, the response is either to blame Bill Clinton or suggest the questioner isn’t supporting our troops.
The latest “spin” heroes for the GOP have been true believers Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, shining lights of what the right-wing calls journalism (as it is practiced at both Fox News and the Weekly Standard). Kristol recently wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in which he claimed the Iraq war was a great success, causing sane people to cry and the blogosphere to crash and burn.
Not to be outdone, Barnes wrote a story in the current Weekly Standard titled “An Unusually Effective Minority” in which he praised the Republican minority in Congress for bringing representative government to a halt. “Democrats are stymied, foiled and frustrated. Republicans have hindered or obstructed them at almost every turn” wrote an admiring Barnes. He concedes, almost in passing, that polls show “Democrats are more popular than Republicans, and their stand on most issues is preferred.” But the point is those issues that people want are going nowhere, thanks to the Republican opposition!
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One of my fellow Wisconsin Dems showed me this article, and so I thought I'd share. Looks like a good blog to visit.
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