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In reply to the discussion: Duped into voting for President Obama? [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)"protect" is a favorite, but "strengthen" is the more catapulted newspeak term for cutting.
I almost don't have the heart to to translate "difficult choices" from 3rd way to English, but there really should be updated versions of the newspeak dictionary every year so I suppose I should translate it even tho you will not enjoy it.
The key parts are, it will be "difficult", but they have "chosen" to achieve Pete Peterson's agenda that nobody but the wealthy elite want, they may have to make some token loophole tax cut sacrifices, that may inconvenience some of the accountants for about a year before they find tax legal workarounds, but that "difficult choice" must also be made so it can be called a "grand bargain" that both sides have "sacrificed" to.
These "difficult choices" are made by "courageous" "serious minded" Democrats that are brave enough to screw most of the voting public and reach across the aisle to get something done, no matter what it is, to make progress even if the Republicans are petulant obstructionist children, it will take a brave adult to give the crying brats the lollipop and everything else they demand in order to find common ground and a harmonious bi-partisan future.
I have been studying 3rd way newspeak for a while, soon it will by a second language to me that I will be able to speak fluently.