Monday, March 12, 2007

Incompetence at every level - political framing - framing an issue

Please read all of our postings with less regard to content and more regard to the framing pieces that are in bold. We are here to explore the framing of issues by the constant use of certain words and phrases for the purposes of creating and directing the atmosphere in which a subject is thought of.
As an example, the republicans all use the words "micro manage" in the argument presented against the democrats attempts to curtail our involvement in the civil war in Iraq.
We all know that: too many cooks spoil the broth and therefore micro managing is
inherently wrong.
The word "mistake" is used by all republicans with regard to the blatant political firings managed by Gonzales. "Mistake" frames the action to our internal wiring: everybody makes mistakes, when you make a mistake you learn from it, get up, dust yourself off and move on.
We want to forgive a mistake and so from the outset, a person involved in having
committed a mistake, no matter how large, committed a mistake - something we all do frequently.
Gonzales did not make a mistake - he made a conscious decision to lie and deceive. What is amazing about effective framing - as in the case above - is that very soon even the democrats and the media
use the framing. And every time anyone uses it in virtually any context it validates the framing.


We would like your input on the following framing we are proposing. This is framing that we intend to move into the internal wiring of Americans during the next election.
Here is a review and then a use in a sentence or paragraph, they are presented in two parts, one with reference to republicans and one with reference to democrats:

Republicans
  1. incompetence (incompetent)
  2. duct-tape administration (duct-tape policies)
  3. Piracy
  4. looted (looting, looters)
  5. Gluttons
  6. infest
  7. takers
  8. elite salesmen
  9. unsuitable
  10. misguided
  11. making $20,000 or more a month
  12. almost 30,000 dead or maimed
  13. enough for 15 million 4 year college scholarships
  14. abandoned
  15. wear their religion on their sleeve while taking ...
  16. predatory
  17. fear change
  18. stagnant
  19. dis-inherit our children
  20. steal from our children
  21. sexual predators
Democrats
  1. Genuine parts
  2. American parts
  3. American ingenuity
  4. Stronger America
  5. Broad Prosperity
  6. Better Future
  7. Effective Government
  8. Mutual Responsibility
  9. Send a strong signal to predatory religions
  10. Realistic
  11. renewed interest in real science
  12. actual leadership
  13. wisdom
  14. historical perspective
  15. friends
  16. world companions
  17. share the world
  18. embrace change
  19. real family values
  20. believe in our children
  21. convicted felons
  22. historical perspective

Examples in use:

"This administrations policy towards sexual predators like Mark Foley (allowed to pray on congressional pages) has been like church bishops moving the pedophile priests around and allowing them to continue, not to mention: Bush Jr. employs more convicted felons than any other previous administration."

This incompetent duct tape administration has cheapened our nations vision of itself and our global standing.

This has been an administration with no leadership - it has been an administration of piracy.
Literally, thousands of tons of our money is unaccounted for, looted - not just in the civil war in Iraq.
Gluttons infest our government - takers that are not suited for the jobs they were given in favor for their collusion.

This leaderless administration has released a Trojan horse full of viruses - it has infected every aspect of our government with weak leaders who take pay raises and take vacations. It is a group of takers and elite salesman, unsuitable for responsibility.


Every branch and category of government, every appointee, needs to be tested and disinfected.

George Bush Jr. should resign, he is incompetent, has surrounded himself with incompetence, and his duct tape measures are an insult to the United States. If he were a patriot, he would resign. He's dug himself into a hole and grabbed us by the collar on the way down.

(We've got to frame the conversation of the next election) - out with the incompetence, the takers and elite salesman. Every crisis over the past 6+ years has been misguided by an appointee that has been incompetent and the only thing they have offered were duct tape measures.
When you need to fix something, you need to do it right, with genuine parts and a plan that will solve problems. We will solve problems, we will clean up the moral abyss that has neglected our troops, that has neglected our veterans, our schools, our financial networks, and our future.


more to come.........

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