Posted on 05/12/2009 9:46:44 AM PDT by FromLori
How does the "The Clean Energy Divide" sound to you?
The Obama administration is exploring alternative names for cap and trade legislation.
People don't really know what cap and trade means, but they don't like it. So a new name is being concocted to gather support for the legislation.
It doesn't look like the names "carbon tax" or "regressive tax" are in the mix, though. How does "clean energy divide" grab you?
WSJ: Seeking to bolster public support for climate legislation, the Obama administration is consulting pollsters who advocate avoiding phrases such as "cap-and-trade" and "global warming." On Monday, the White House Council on Environmental Quality was scheduled to meet with Robert Perkowitz, president of ecoAmerica, a Washington-based nonprofit that uses "psychographic research" to "shift personal and civic choices of environmentally agnostic Americans," according to its Web site.
"We're trying to give them phrases that work," Mr. Perkowitz said in an interview. He said that in a survey of some 2,000 Americans conducted by his group in March and April, less than half of the respondents said they would support a "cap-and-trade" policy, and that only 24% said they knew what the phrase means. "If you call it 'clean energy dividend'...almost anything other than 'cap and trade,' you'll get people responding a lot more favorably," he said.
We all know liberals are disciples of Orwellian Newspeak.
Ann Coulter put it best when she said liberals talk about conservatives using “code words and phrases” to convey hate, but they cannot provide any translations for us.
Conservatives, however, have no such problem with Liberalspeak:
Choice = Abortion
Affirmative Action = Discrimination
Gay = Homosexual
(Insert new phrase here) = Cap and Trade = Bloated Governmental Revenue Stream Based On Hysteria
CAP AND TAX
or CRIPPLE AND TAX
Oh, very likely not! Consider it takes a dupe to be deceived. I give the American population high marks for apathy, stupidity and desire to be deceived. We’re making his job so easy.
How about “Hope and Change Decree #6”?
How about calling it GORE-A-POLUSA or THE ROYAL SCAM.
And this my friends, describes well the fall of the USA off of the turnip truck. That means AT LEAST 1/4 of the population would support something they KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.
Must be those "Moderates" I keep hearing about.
EXCELLENT, Excellent choices! Very good. I cannot choose between them. “CRIPPLE AND TAX” conveys it best, but has a rythmic problem as it rolls off the tongue. “CAP AND TAX” has a nice feel to it.
“Office Space - Mash Up”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVkEk-ci8xk
Pretty much the same as your new term is in the last second of the clip.
Cap in hand...
Cap’n Bligh...
Cap’n Crunch...
Nothing useful comes to mind. Some poll Rush mentioned yesterday, most people haven’t a clue what cap and trade is, so why change the name? It’s not like cap and trade is associated with anything distasteful.
Another: “It’s Bush’s Fault”
By the way, it has a nice, “bio-organic” ring to it.
Was the Office Space drywall guy named Lawrence? I forget.
How about Extortion and Grand Larceny?
Only for the name, of course.
How about THROWING GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD SCIENCE
I don’t think that “Free Ponies for the Children” is taken yet.
Thanks, Noam Chomsky, but I'd rather have a government that works - by leaving us alone!
“Patriotism.”
You know don’t you they want to outlaw DUST! I swear...
http://bluelori.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-world-disorder.html
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