POP GO THE WEASELS

In this book, he's drawn a bead on the corporate scandals and increase in workplace duplicity.

It is utterly uncanny how he draws the portrait of the present weasel executive office of the White House and its legislative weasels. He claims that "the way of the weasel has trickled down." Surely that trickle down phrase is familiar, but he goes on to further define weasels.

Ø Any person or group trying to get away with something is a weasel.

Ø Weasel-like behavior runs from scheming to take the last cup of coffee without brewing another pot, to corporate double-speak like, "We're not lying, we're using non-full disclosure."

Ø The weasel zone is a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities where everything's misleading without actually being a lie.

Ø Weasel-math manipulates statistics and logic to make an unmakeable case. Adams gives this example: the number of accidental deaths per physician is 9000 times higher than the number of accidental deaths per gun owner -- so doctors should be banned.

Ø The weasel-creep method is promising to do something less annoying or less illegal, then inching back to whatever you were doing.

Ø Weasel apology sounds familiar. You don't say, "I'm sorry I was late." You say, "I'm sorry you thought I was late."

Ø Then there are weasels taking credit for overstated accomplishments. Adams gives this example. Wally boasts, "I'm pleased to report another stellar week of accomplishments! I moved more than 8000,000 bits of data to a disaster recovery backup facility!" Later, Dilbert asks, "Did you just take credit for copying a file to a diskette?"

It's time for the Democrats and all others that are becoming disenchanted with the present administration to stop monkeying around with mea culpas. "The games afoot" and two years is a very short time.

The weasels aren't just standing around gloating but are actively disparaging every possible Democrat that comes into the news while pushing forward their own programs. Notable election experts like Charlie Cook are countering their claims of "landslide" and "mandate" and "chosen by God."

"A swing of 94,000 votes out of 75,723,756 cast nationally would have resulted in the Democrats capturing control of the House and retaining a majority in the Senate on Nov. 5." http://nationaljournal.com/about/cookcolumn.htm

1. Why doesn't the Democratic Party and like-minded Independents have a cable news outlet where it could counter the 24/7 lies and misrepresentation on Faux News?

2. Why are there no national talk shows with a liberal MC to counteract Limbaugh's lies? Or, for that matter where are the liberal talk show hosts all over the country? The conservatives have them on both radio and TV.

3. If it is true that many big stars and movie moguls support Democrats then why don't they join together to make effective and positive educational and informational TV spots on existing radio and TV media starting right now. Say what you will, star power works.

One thing for sure, we must counteract and destroy the image, now flashing all over the media, that Liberal and Independent legislators are Bushie-whipped bobbleheads.

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