The Frank Luntz memo - The language of Financial Reform

[malaise]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/01/frank-luntz-pens-memo-to_n_444332.html
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These lines or arguments are similar to the ones used by regulatory reform opponents in the past, often with some success. What's telling is that they are being trotted out again in this type of economic environment.

Luntz does seem to acknowledge that the climate makes defeating regulatory reform a bit trickier. At the top of his memo he urges opponents (primarily Republican lawmakers) to "acknowledge the need for reform that ensures this NEVER happens again," He insists that "the status quo is not an option" and that members of Congress, when addressing the crisis, "never forget its impact on your audience." Luntz even advise his audience to promote themselves the agents of change.

But for the sake of winning the debate, he adds, it is vital to insist that such change does not include additional Washington-based regulatory powers.
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ReTHUGS are scum.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. What ever Luntz says, is not what he really means. ALWAYS read between the lines when

it comes to anything he has to say.

The man is an evil wizard when it comes to words.

His only goal is to frame the issues and the debate to look as good as possible for the repukes.


As has been said here before. "Never listen to advice from someone who wants you to lose."

[Make7]

2. Cenk had a good segment about this:

 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=430362&mesg_id=430362

 

[malaise]

3. Thanks

So did KO