Rothenberg: Democrats' Economic Narrative Still Trumps GOP's
By Stuart Rothenberg
Roll Call Staff
Feb. 21, 2013, 3:23 p.m.
Congressional Republicans figured that after the fiscal cliff, they’d have the advantage talking about the sequester and, down the road, the continued funding of the government.
Clearly, they were wrong.
One of the reasons Republicans are faring so badly these days is that the Democratic narrative, presented most persuasively and effectively by the White House, plays more easily into the national media’s preference for dramatic stories that evoke emotional responses.
In the lead-up to the fiscal cliff, the debt limit and most recently the sequester, Democrats have simply done a better job than Republicans talking about the allegedly disastrous effects of higher taxes, expiring unemployment benefits and potential chaos in the financial markets.
During the past few weeks, Democrats have raised the specter of key personnel from teachers to meat inspectors being thrown out of work if the sequester isn’t delayed, to say nothing of the surge in unemployment nationally and the possibility of a recession.
(More here.)
Roll Call Staff
Feb. 21, 2013, 3:23 p.m.
Congressional Republicans figured that after the fiscal cliff, they’d have the advantage talking about the sequester and, down the road, the continued funding of the government.
Clearly, they were wrong.
One of the reasons Republicans are faring so badly these days is that the Democratic narrative, presented most persuasively and effectively by the White House, plays more easily into the national media’s preference for dramatic stories that evoke emotional responses.
In the lead-up to the fiscal cliff, the debt limit and most recently the sequester, Democrats have simply done a better job than Republicans talking about the allegedly disastrous effects of higher taxes, expiring unemployment benefits and potential chaos in the financial markets.
During the past few weeks, Democrats have raised the specter of key personnel from teachers to meat inspectors being thrown out of work if the sequester isn’t delayed, to say nothing of the surge in unemployment nationally and the possibility of a recession.
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
The White House has no credibility for anyone who can think beyond what the NYT tells them to think. The White House first recommended automatic trigger cuts and now is laying out some of the most laughable scare tactics known to man. Who knows, perhaps the left side of the aisle folks will go back the TV add showing those evil GOP’ers throwing the wheel chair bound Grandma off a cliff. And to top it off, the ‘major’ media seems to think that the GOP needs to grow up.
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