George Lakoff [http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/people/lakoff] is the self-appointed guru [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml] who has helped create and feed the Democratic frenzy over "framing [http://jeffrey-feldman.typepad.com/frameshop/]," which is code for revamping rhetoric once ideas and people have repeatedly failed. To which one says: good luck with that. If the Dems can win an election touting higher "civilization fees" in lieu of taxes, then the American people deserve them in high office. Reality and history will not be so kind to Lakoff: as a man once noted, ideas have consequences [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226876802/102-5211570-0496 146?v=glance], and the language you dress them up in does little to affect that. It's noteworthy...