Part of the issue to me is...

Michael Maiello — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:13:15 +0000

In reply to I agree with everything you

Part of the issue to me is... who are we fighting here?

It's not the Republicans who will cut Social Security. They don't have the votes. Only Obama can make that happen.

It's not Republicans that led us into a war with Libya, either. Republican tactics work when they're fighting Democrats. But do they work for Democrats fighting Democrats?

I agree with everything you

kgb999 — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:32:11 +0000

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I agree with everything you say from an *economics* standpoint. Mine was a point of tactics.

IMO you are giving the MSM far too much credit for willingness to nuance this argument to reach the end conclusion you'd like people to draw. As such, I still think approaching it from this angle is off base despite you (and everyone else who made similar economic points on my thread) being 100% intellectually correct.

Thing with tactics though is that they have to make sense to the people deploying them. My point totally doesn't seem to click with Democrats. The way Republicans approach tactics really makes sense to me, and really seems to succeed. Being intellectually correct is rarely what is needed to prevail despite being really, really nice for the policy implementation phase if one ever makes it there.

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Part of the issue to me is...

I agree with everything you