Frank Luntz Pens Memo To Kill Financial Regulatory Reform

[laughingliberal]

Nine months after he penned a memo laying out the arguments for health care legislation's destruction, Republican message guru Frank Luntz has put together a playbook to help derail financial regulatory reform.

In a 17-page memo titled, "The Language of Financial Reform," Luntz urged opponents of reform to frame the final product as filled with bank bailouts, lobbyist loopholes, and additional layers of complicated government bureaucracy.

"If there is one thing we can all agree on, it's that the bad decisions and harmful policies by Washington bureaucrats that in many ways led to the economic crash must never be repeated," Luntz wrote. "This is your critical advantage. Washington's incompetence is the common ground on which you can build support."

Luntz continued: "Ordinarily, calling for a new government program 'to protect consumers' would be extraordinary popular. But these are not ordinary times. The American people are not just saying 'no.' They are saying 'hell no' to more government agencies, more bureaucrats, and more legislation crafted by special interests."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/01/frank-luntz-pens-memo-to_n_444332.html

Do we have any good PR people in the party who can find a way to show Republicans as pro-banker? Otherwise, this Orwellian crap is going to work.

[Vincardog]

1. How about the fact that when the Democratic leadership wants o regulate the Bankers and PROTECT the

People the Greedy Oil Party drafts plans to stop them?

[Cosmocat]

2. Only in the mind of a Lunz ...

and therefor channeled via Rush to republicans can the leap from "If there is one thing we can all agree on, it's that the bad decisions and harmful policies by Washington bureaucrats that in many ways led to the economic crash must never be repeated," to NOT PASSING REFORM be made ...

And, the not so funny thing ...

The MSM will help them do it ...

[WCGreen]

3. They keep going back to the same well and the people eat it up...

And then they get elected and put everything off the books so that the next time a democrat gets elected, they are forced to massively increase spending which increases debt and further impoverishing the US governments ability to be effective. It's created a downward spiral of government productivity and so animosity toward the government which will pave the way for privatizing everything....

If people can't see that that is the strategy of the GOP then I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I would love to sell you...

[Cassandra]

5. Don't give them ideas.

They want to privatize everything.

[sharesunited]

4. Three letters: AIG.

Lack of government oversight and misguided belief in superior private-sector risk assessment resulted in that golden turd, which was as large and odorous as any, and exemplifies them all.

Luntz has an impossible task.

[xchrom]

6. Death tax Luntz should spend more time

Getting his wigs straightened out.

[Ilsa]

7. I hope he puts all of his money in a bank run by financial charlatans

and they lose it for him.

[ddeclue]

8. Hope it's still funny when you're in hell Frank!

:rofl:

[annabanana]

9. In other words, "Lie, lie and lie some more".. "Make them

spend all their time defending themselves against unsubstantiated nonsense"...

Are you listening, you Dem strategists???

[mzmolly]

10. The key is WHICH bureaucrats were in control?

Frank? :hi: