"Framing the debate" is a term that deserves a great deal of reflection and understanding, if you, as I do, try hard to understand how the U.S. could get so hog tied in trying to run the government: "just getting started. When the official paperwork is filed with the Internal Revenue Service in short order, it will, according to documents shared by the new “Freedom Partners” group with Politico, reveal massive “grants” to undermine implementation of the Affordable Care Act ($115 million to the anti-Obamacare Center to Protect Patient Rights), maintain the Tea Party movement and related political projects ($32.3 million to Americans for Prosperity and smaller checks for the Tea Party Express and the Tea Party Patriots), promote Paul Ryan’s austerity agenda on Social Security and Medicare ($15.7 to the conservative 60-Plus Association), promote the right-wing social agenda in the states ($8.2 million to the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee), shore up the gun lobby ($3.5 million to the National Rifle Association) and develop the ability of conservative groups to use data mining to advance their projects ($5 million to the Themis Trust voter database initiative). This is not about contributions to candidates or campaigns. This is not about contributions to parties or traditional political organizations. This is about “framing the debate.” Winning elections matters. But shaping the discourse—so that no whichever party wins, so that whichever candidate prevails, the discussion defaults to a narrow set of “options”—matters more." read more: thenation/blog/176148/koch-brothers-business-league-spends-236-million-own-discourse?utm_medium=email&utm_source=HeadlineNation&utm_term=&utm_campaign=#axzz2ezrdFUYR
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:04:53 +0000
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