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Old 01-14-2011, 09:29 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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Do they sit up all night and think of euphemistic or PC ways to say things?

"The Patient's Rights Repeal Act"

"At a House Dem leadership meeting last week, Dem leaders decided that this is the phrase they will officially use to brand the House GOP's push to repeal health reform ...The effort by Dems to hit on a pithy phrase to brand the GOP's repeal effort comes after Republicans have been remarkable successful in their messaging on health care. The two core talking points developed by Republicans -- that health reform is a "job killer" and a "government takeover" -- have both gained amazing media traction in the past two years..."

The Plum Line - Dems settle on branding for GOP repeal effort: "The Patient's Rights Repeal Act"

They still can't face that the problem is the ugly baby Obamacare product and not the way they message it.

Hey, how has that whole "overseas contingency operation" and "man-caused disasters" for acts of terrorism worked out for them? Even they no longer seem to use them after no one else bought into it.
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Old 01-14-2011, 01:22 PM
 
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Do they sit up all night and think of euphemistic or PC ways to say things?

"The Patient's Rights Repeal Act"

"At a House Dem leadership meeting last week, Dem leaders decided that this is the phrase they will officially use to brand the House GOP's push to repeal health reform ...The effort by Dems to hit on a pithy phrase to brand the GOP's repeal effort comes after Republicans have been remarkable successful in their messaging on health care. The two core talking points developed by Republicans -- that health reform is a "job killer" and a "government takeover" -- have both gained amazing media traction in the past two years..."

The Plum Line - Dems settle on branding for GOP repeal effort: "The Patient's Rights Repeal Act"

They still can't face that the problem is the ugly baby Obamacare product and not the way they message it.

Hey, how has that whole "overseas contingency operation" and "man-caused disasters" for acts of terrorism worked out for them? Even they no longer seem to use them after no one else bought into it.
They know that most people who vote democrat vote on emotion and not facts.

The so called Stimulas bill. The Assault Weapons ban. The Great Society.
etc.
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Old 01-14-2011, 01:26 PM
 
Location: Meggett, SC
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Won't work; it's Obamacare and that one is around to stay. But you did give me a good chuckle; but darn it's so true!
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Old 01-14-2011, 01:30 PM
 
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I don't think I've even seen a poll done by a liberal-leaning polling group that doesn't show the majority of Americans are not for Obamacare.

Do they truly think that putting a slick name on it will get by subverting the will of the people?
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Old 01-14-2011, 01:32 PM
 
Location: Meggett, SC
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I don't think I've even seen a poll done by a liberal-leaning polling group that doesn't show the majority of Americans are not for Obamacare.

Do they truly think that putting a slick name on it will get by subverting the will of the people?
Apparently; won't work. I can see it now, a poller calls someone and asks if they support Patient's Rights Repeal Act. The caller says "what's that". Poller explains. Caller says "oh, you mean Obamacare."
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Old 01-14-2011, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Long Island (chief in S Farmingdale)
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Yes, because the GOP calling the health care bill "Obamacare" is not Rebranding....
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Old 01-14-2011, 01:38 PM
 
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Yes, because the GOP calling the health care bill "Obamacare" is not Rebranding....

Do you have a link similar to the one the OP had where the GOP got together and decided to call it "Obamacare"?

I don't think you can pin that on the GOP. The MEDIA simply decided that was the easy catch phrase just as they called it HillaryCare when Clinton attempted it.
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Old 01-14-2011, 02:12 PM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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Do you have a link similar to the one the OP had where the GOP got together and decided to call it "Obamacare"?
Actually... the Republican branding exercise was here:

http://rules-republicans.house.gov/Media/PDF/HR__-Repeal.pdf

Yes... they actually named it the "Repealing the Job Killing Health Care Law Act."

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Old 01-14-2011, 02:20 PM
 
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Question, how does one "rebrand" something that hasn't been previously branded?

Oh, never mind.
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