Frank Luntz Pens Memo To Kill Financial Regulatory Reform

[TomCADem]

Source: Huffington Post

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."


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Watch how the mainstream media takes these talking points, and transforms efforts to kill financial reform, into populism.

[msongs]

1. lol and the dems don't seem to have any effective strategy. wish they did tho nt

[VPStoltz]

2. Oh, but they do have a strategy grasshopper!

It's call a President how has heard the call and is starting to kick some butt by doing something so simple as - get this - using facts to expose the cretins for what they are. CRETINS.

[TomCADem]

3. Sorry, No Magic Strategy Is Going To Combat Billions Of Dollars In Corporate Advertising Dollars

Why doesn't the Sierra Club spend millions running ads, lobbying Congress, and funding groups like Freedom Works to push climate change legislation? Because they don't have that kind of $$$. Its not because the Sierra Club lacks strategy. Its because they are being out spent several times over.

[No Elephants]

4. When you're a Washington politician running for re-election, blaming Washington can be a two edged

sword.

May it fell a lot of political necks, but only metaphorically speaking, of course.

[aquart]

5. "legislation crafted by special interests" CHUTZPAH!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. Hey Frank -

the only thing to "kill" is that nasty looking thing you wear on your head. Dude, you're going bald. Deal with it.