The Amazing thing about our "Fatigue"

[KoKo]

(This comment from Buzzflash as a title for an article they are linking really spoke to me. I see so much cynicism out there amongst the grassroots activists and myself,included. It felt good to know that Buzzflash felt the same way..and expresses it so well. Why can't our Dem Leaders stay on MESSAGE? or SCANDAL?)

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"The amazing thing is that so many of Bush's opponents continue to play along. The sheer inability to put on blinders and drive one scandal home, to take it to its ultimate conclusion, is a failing of magnificent proportions. The warrantless spying fiasco is a perfect example. The day the NSA story broke, it should have been the only issue discussed by Democrats and progressive activists, the only one. Day in, day out. No matter if thirty other scandals intervened." 2/11

http://www.buzzflash.com/

[EstimatedProphet]

1. That is what it is going to take

Or maybe have some of the Dem leaders go after the scandals and stick to them regardless, while others go after the new ones that come up.

It is amazing that Rove's strategy is working-when a scandal comes up. bring up a new one to distract the old one, so that it gets lost in the shuffle. It's like if a thief robs a bank, he can get away with it by robbing a different bank so that the police have to quit investigating the first robbery.

[EFerrari]

2. That's exactly right. He sets fire after fire and then watches us

run around trying to catch each one.

Enough already.

[kentuck]

3. Yep....

by design.

[acmejack]

4. And he told us he was going to do it to us!

"And while you study that reality, judiciously, as you will-we'll act again and create another new reality" blah blah blah I always believed that load of manure came from Rover's lying lips.

btw, spellchk wanted to call him rover, I liked it, rover he is!

[McCamy Taylor]

6. This only works in the press. They have limited copy space/air time

sp he can use the smoke from one fire to hide the smoke from a more damaging fire. But the human mind has a near infinite capacity to remember and to accumulate outrage. I believe that outrage is additive and that the more scandal we see at the WH, the more our outrage grows. The average American does not try to tackle the scandals, he sees them and decides how he will vote at the next election. It is a "yes/no" thing with some weight given to how strongly motivated he is to go to the polls to vote against the GOP. The more scandals he sees, the more likely he is to go to vote Democrat or even give money.

This craziness about "Scandal fatigue" seems designed to make Dems shut up about the multitude of scandals--which will be taking aim at our own foot.

Remember Nixon. The American people had no trouble understanding that he had done a whole lot of bad things.

[KoKo]

7. I disagree with you here, McCamy. Unless folks start to see accountability

for these scandals they will lose faith and hope. The fact that no one has been fired for all the Bush lies and incompetence causes folks to give up hope. The Media spins it all and rushes on to the next revelation and after awhile without any heads rolling...the Average American thinks it must be okay because no one's fires and no one's in jail.

It causes "Morality Fatigue." Many of us here are suffering from it since the Alito Confirmation.

[McCamy Taylor]

5. This "fatigue" is a GOP creation of Karl Rove: I predicted this last fall.

Seriously. I put together this mixed media cartoon last fall. I called it "Morality Fatigue" Do not be duped.

http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/050613.htm


We can focus on a whole lot of WH crimes at once. We did it during the Nixon administration.