Republicans Plan to Call Their Gov’t Shutdown a ‘Slowdown’
Republicans are getting ready to shut down the government, as they seem to do every time a Democrat is President. But this time they’re also trying to avoid blame for the actions they take; they think they can fool people by calling their shutdown something else: Dems say calling it a ‘slowdown’ won’t help GOP message.
Conservatives are turning to a new message in the escalating budget fight: A government shutdown is not actually a shutdown.
It’s a “slowdown,” according to the new refrain from Tea Party leader Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). Or as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) put it on Monday, the stalemate over spending could cause the government “to partially shut down.”
This is what happens when your entire world-view is based on irrational magical thinking. You think you can actually change things in the real world by giving them different names.
Frank says: