The “Wag the Dog” Government Shutdown
Posted by Trent Telenko on April 8th, 2011 (All posts by Trent Telenko)
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The Obama Administration cannot change the horrid realities that are tubing it’s polling numbers with its most committed supporters, but it can change the subject by using the Federal government shutdown as a political gimmick straight out of the 1997 black comedy “Wag The Dog.”
Like Wag The Dog, the objective is to get the Obama Administration out of its current quick sand of bad headlines about any of the following: the Libyan “Kinetic Military Action,” the budget deficit, historically high unemployment, high gasoline prices, Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s Guantanamo trial flip flop, etc.
The Obama Administration can count on the Journo-List 2.0 Main Stream Media (MSM) to do its part in presenting the Democratic Party line on these events as the gospel truth, up to and including stating the Obama administration’s acceptance of the GOP terms are huge victory for President Obama over the evil GOP. Exhibit A — ABC NEW’s Jake Tapper is already bragging of giving Obama talking points against Congressional Republicans.
The upshot is that there is nothing anyone, especially Congressional Republicans, can do to divert a shut down, or the upcoming “Republicans are Evil” media campaign. The best Congressional Republicans can do is ignore the MSM, attend to their own political interests and work to get their message out on alternate media — Fox, Talk Radio, internet bloggers, social media — trusting to the hard economic realities to inform the American voter. After all, this just worked in Wisconsin.
If the Obama Administration wants a government shutdown, it can get it, simply by changing the terms of negotiation. If the Republicans cave on spending cuts and social issues, the Obama will demand more spending and immigration amnesty. The MSM will report “Republicans are Evil” no matter how the Federal government gets shut down. And nothing will have changed, except for the headlines…and the consequences from the decision to close and reopen the Federal government.
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