Reply #17: You KNEW They Would Do This Next

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This is the big threat, of course, when they start playing it this way, and "locking the argument up"--pretending to be outraged ON BEHALF OF THE VICTIMS, against us. This makes a powerful posture, and hard to defend against, because for every point you make, people will "hear you" "capitalizing on it" by "not helping but instead only complaining," as the routine goes. This is why Democrats need to get out there NOW (Wesley Clark has been great) and attack the premeditated funding cuts that doomed these people and animals to death, and attack the smear campaign that now attacks the victims (these Gulf state officials, after all, live there, too) a second time, after the original tragedy. Bush, Rove, etc., are calculating and merciless, and now attempt to spin and smear their way out of a totally horrific tragedy, which they caused, and their targets suffered. We have to get out the outraged word, our side of the story attacking the deadly-incompetent Bush Administration, ON BEHALF OF THE VICTIMS, just that way.