Must Read By Frank Luntz - Go ahead Frankie, make my year ! (Re-Post)

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The article below was in my local paper the other day. Anyone else see it? Gotta read it. This is GREAT NEWS ! WONDERFUL ! A GIFT ! Go ahead baggers. Act on the right winger Luntz's fake polls (you can word polls any way you want and make the results apppear any way you want). Go ahead and slash and burn Medicare, Social Security, and especially ALL those other programs your phony right wingers LOVE like oil subsidies, farm subsidies, THEIR local earmarks, and on and on and on. Go ahead. Govern like TeaBaggers on fucking steroids. Just do it ! I do love it so much. (This last election was about three things mainly: the unemployment rate, the unemployment rate, and the unemployment rate, and THAT will be DOWN come 2012. All the rest of this crap about "Obama was too weak." and "Americans want smaller government and are worried about their freedoms." and all the rest is mostly a crock of shit. It was about the fact that the economy didn't rebound enough for impatient instant-gratification suburb-babies who have never had to deal with tough times. Dems lost because the Indies in the burbs went back to the Pukes over the economic numbers, as if McSAME would have done any better in a year and a half. Luntz and his crazy pack of bloodhounds coming into Congress in Jan. are in for a rude awakening come 2012. I have no doubt. Give them some rope. They'll hang themselves. Americans don't want too much government, but they absolutely want ENOUGH government. They want adequate government, and government that works FOR them, and not for their Wall Street fat cats. Go ahead Luntz and baggers. Make my fucking year !

IF GOP KEEP ITS PROMISES, IT KEEPS ITS POWER

11/15/10 08:11 pm Updated: 11/15/10 08:18 pm
By Frank I. Luntz


The United States has just witnessed its third straight rubber band election. Once again, Americans had their patience stretched, fired a Washington run amok and now want their new leaders to snap back to attention. The government Americans seek is simpler, more efficient and more accountable; one that takes on less but does better; one that executes the essential and eschews the excessive.

For two election cycles, the winners overpromised and underdelivered. So, will a newly divided Washington finally learn how to govern effectively in dire times?

First, a warning to both sides. Republicans, for their part, must realize that the voters have given them a reprieve, not an endorsement. In my polling last week, GOP voters agreed with this statement by more than two to one: “I am willing to give the Republicans another chance, but if they mess up again, I’ll vote them out again, too.” That’s hardly a cause for GOP celebration.

Similarly, Democrats must grasp that their defeats were not about deficient personalities or insufficient communication, but about their philosophy and substance. Roughly two out of three voters agreed with the statements that President Obama “has failed to deliver hope and change” and that in the midst of an economic crisis, Democrats “had their priorities wrong.”


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