Topplebush.com thinks Democrats and Progressives need help in cleaning up their language. Often those on the left use words and phrases right out of Bush's playbook that are Bush-speak and simply part of the GOP lexicon.
Topplebush invites creative types to add to the list, a valuable and effective tool in defeating the Bush-Rove "spin and smear" machine.
Words or phrases BushCo's GOP would like you to use | The Progressive Response |
| Iraq War | Bush's Folly, Occupation of Iraq |
| Burdensome Government Regulations | Consumer / Environmental Protection |
| Terrorist Surveillance Program | Bush illegally spying on Americans / illegal circumvention of FISA court |
| Clean Skies | Toxic pollutants from weakened regulations |
| No Child Left Behind | Under-funded Government Mandate |
| Real Conservative | Pro-Corporation, Pro-war, Pro-rich ONLY supporter |
| The Christian Right | The American Taliban / The Religious Reich |
| Running a tight ship | Purging all dissenters / outing CIA agents |
| Pro-Defense | Pro-Defense Contractors |
| Horrible Clinton Administration | The Good Old Days |
| Climate Change | Climate Crisis |
| Bush Presidency | The Bush Presidency is over for all practical purposes with his poll numbers in the mid-30's. |
| Republican Congressman | Bush Enabler |
| Voter ID | Voter suppression |
| Flat Tax | Tax increase for everyone but the rich |
| We're at war | We're occupying Iraq |
| War against terror | A perpetual state of being with no end in sight and no definitive way to measure results; empty phrase that sounds tough with main purpose being to funnel taxpayer money to defense contractors who then funnel more back to the politicians to help them get elected |
| We won't "cut and run" | ...Except from Afghanistan and anywhere else that doesn't have lots of oil or other resources we want |
| We are fighting terrorists there so we don't have to fight them here | We are creating more terrorists there so we have to fight them everywhere including here |
| We are mostly fighting al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq | We are fighting a resistance to occupation by Iraqi people that doesn't either like or include many al Qaeda members |
| Activist Judges | Freedom judges, Activist President |
| September 11, 9/11 | Catch-all excuse for Bush/GOP excesses and abuse of power |
| Bush's steadfast resolve | Bullheadedness, stubbornness |
| "Embryo Adoption" "Snowflake Baby" | Terms used to prevent cures for serious diseases from stem cell research |
| This situation in Iraq is "challenging" | There's a civil war and bloodbath in Iraq |
| Sectarian violence (in Iraq) | Civil War (in Iraq) |
| Iraq War | Greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history |
| September 11, 9/11 | Bush's first major failure to protect America --from viewer Kathy |
| We need to "win in Iraq" | We have already lost in Iraq about every way this can be measured and it's only a question of how much more losing and loss of life Americans will tolerate |
| This war will end all other wars | There is no such thing as a war to end all other wars |
| Freedom, human rights, and democracy | Terms the right has corruputed to sell regime change and unilateralism |
| Adapt and win (in Iraq) | Same thing as "stay the course" to the GOP |
| The good decent Senator, Joe Lieberman... | The de facto Republican Joe Lieberman |
| Joe Lieberman | Joe LIEberME |
| The Iraq War is central to fighting the war against terrorism | Fighting terrorism with the war in Iraq is like putting out fire with gasoline --from viewer Scot Spitzner, CO |
| Operation Enduring Freedom | Operation Enduring Occupation |
| It's a choice between staying in Iraq to win the war versus cutting and running and losing | It's really a choice between staying in Iraq and losing slowly versus exiting Iraq and losing quickly |
2 comments:
PROGRESSIVE DEFINITIONS
Liberal. A very scary word that upsets most thinking persons with an ounce of common sense,,,, gotta change that word to........
Progressive - A word to confuse most thinking persons to convince them that the Dems are something new and different and not liberals.
Progressive Liberal - A group of people who can't stand the thought of anyone keeping any of their own hard earned money. The poor need it more than you. If you have it, we wan't it. We hate the rich, but just wait till we get our hands into the pockets of the middle class. Those pennies really add up!
Cigarettes and Alcohol - Legal substances in the United States that we can convince the sheep are so horrible that we will tax those items beyond reach and then cry for more money when the tax revenue from them dries up.
Same Sex Marriage - Perfectly normal. The way we would all want our children to be raised. Loving, caring adoptive family of 2 men sleeping in the same bed and showing thier sons how to grow up to be a healthy and well adjusted man.
Hetero Marriage - Yuk! A man and a women together in a union? What were you thinking?
Ford, Chevrolet - Bad
Toyota, Nissan - Good
Raising the minimum wage 20 cents an hour - The extra 8 dollars a week will save the poor..... if you don't figure in the 25 percent tax bracket.
Rich People - Bad. They didn't do anything to get their money.
Poor People - Good. It is "through no fault of their own.
Socialism - Bad name but it's our policy. Gotta think of something better. Oh ya,,,, Progressive.
Free Market System - Bad. Doesn't give enough to the people who "through no fault of their own" don't have money.
Okay, enough definitions. Unfortunately, with all of their faults, the Dems still look better then the Republicans. They WILL win the house on November 7th. The Republicans deserve to lose it and they will. It's going to be an interesting couple of years.
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