Tag Archives: framing

Saying they “delayed our action plan,” Rick Snyder lays the blame for the Flint water disaster at the feet of “career civil servants” who cared more about process than people

By Mark | January 27, 2016

You have to give him credit for having chutzpah. It took him a few days, but our Governor, with he help of multiple consultants and a few top flight PR firms, is attempting not just to deflect blame for what happened in Flint, but actually turn the deadly public health crisis into an anti-government parable […]

Posted in History, Michigan, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged accountability, ALEC, bureaucrat, career civil servants, checks and balances, Cher, civil service, crisis communications, Dana Milbank, Emergency Manager, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, individual responsibility, lead, lead poisoning, public employees, public health, public health emergency, public relations, Republican framing, revisionist history, Rick Snyder, water | 19 Comments

What conservatives really want, and how we’re helping them get it

By Mark | February 20, 2011

Our old friend George Lakoff has a brilliant essay on the Common Dreams website today. Here’s a clip. I’d encourage those of you with time to follow the last link and read the whole thing, though. ….The central issue in our political life is not being discussed. At stake is the moral basis of American […]

Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged anti-immigrant, anti-science, class warfare, collective bargaining, deficit, empathy, entitlements, food safety, fucking Democrats, George Lakoff, individual responsibility, linguistics, Obama, prenatal care, public broadcasting, public employee unions, Republican framing, Rockridge Institute, state employees, strict father, the conservative agenda, the growing gap between rich and poor, threats to Democracy, threats to the middle class, union busting, Wisconsin is open for business, women's rights | 6 Comments

CIGNA’s Wendell Potter on the state of American healthcare

By Mark | August 3, 2009

If you haven’t yet watched Bill Moyers with CIGNA Healthcare’s former head of corporate communications, Wendell Potter, I’d suggest you take a few minutes and watch it. Here, by way of background, is a quote from Potter as he recently testified before the Senate Commerce Committee: The industry and its backers are using fear tactics, […]