Framing the debate,
This isn't necessarily an original idea I just want to put my words down about it.
The worst part about the spineless democrat's running away from Feingold is this was the perfect chance to frame the debate going into the 06 elections. If the democrat's would of jumped on the censure motion they would of forced republican's to either stand by their very unpopular president or they would of had to turn their back on him. I don't for one minute think that the far right republican party would hold this president to any kind of accountability, so this would of forced all the republican's running this year to tie their election stance with support of Bush. Over the last few months the news has been reporting on how the republican's are trying to separate themselves with Bush. The censure motion was a perfect chance to show how tied to the white house they are, but the democrat's dropped the ball again.
See far right talking head Bill Kristol say this too. Just to be clear this is a far right guy granted he hasn't drank the whole glass of Kool aide like the other guy in the interview, but he is still far right.
Kos has a good look at the 06 election.
Also Democrat's want to say they will make gains but not win the a majority. That way if they don't win a majority they can say this is what we said would happen and if they win the majority they can say we did better then we expected. Where as republican's want to say they will win the majority, so if the dem.'s do they can say that is what we said would happen and if the dem.'s win seats but not the majority they can say they did gain seats but they were suppose to do better. It is all about framing the debate.
The worst part about the spineless democrat's running away from Feingold is this was the perfect chance to frame the debate going into the 06 elections. If the democrat's would of jumped on the censure motion they would of forced republican's to either stand by their very unpopular president or they would of had to turn their back on him. I don't for one minute think that the far right republican party would hold this president to any kind of accountability, so this would of forced all the republican's running this year to tie their election stance with support of Bush. Over the last few months the news has been reporting on how the republican's are trying to separate themselves with Bush. The censure motion was a perfect chance to show how tied to the white house they are, but the democrat's dropped the ball again.
See far right talking head Bill Kristol say this too. Just to be clear this is a far right guy granted he hasn't drank the whole glass of Kool aide like the other guy in the interview, but he is still far right.
Kos has a good look at the 06 election.
Also Democrat's want to say they will make gains but not win the a majority. That way if they don't win a majority they can say this is what we said would happen and if they win the majority they can say we did better then we expected. Where as republican's want to say they will win the majority, so if the dem.'s do they can say that is what we said would happen and if the dem.'s win seats but not the majority they can say they did gain seats but they were suppose to do better. It is all about framing the debate.
posted by Jon at 1:19 PM
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