Dems say calling it a ‘slowdown’ won’t help GOP message

[sasha031]

Conservatives are turning to a new message in the escalating budget fight: A government shutdown is not actually a shutdown. It’s a “slowdown,” according to the new refrain from Tea Party leader Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). Or as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) put it on Monday, the stalemate over spending could cause the government “to partially shut down.”

The rhetorical distinction is a subtle, but politically significant, shift in the intensifying blame game between Republicans and Democrats, who must reach agreement and pass a spending bill by April 8 to avert what is commonly referred to as a government shutdown.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/152635-dems-say-calling-it-a-slowdown-wont-help-gop-message

[eleny]

1. That weakens the threat, rhetoric-wise

"We're gonna shut you down!" "Well, a smidge." :eyes:

[sasha031]

2. I find it scary either way

[eleny]

4. Oh yeah.The shit will hit the fan no matter what they call it.

[FreakinDJ]

3. At a time a rising fuel prices - this will be an Economy Shut Down

RATpubliCONs are determined to bring about the Double Dip

[Tippy]

5. Right about Double Dip...They are willing to ruin any

chance for a recovery just so they can blame Obama....Now if everyone who is hurt by this would just vote...Obama wpould win by a landslide....

[FreakinDJ]

6. Yes - but that doesn't solve our major problems

Giving into Wall St is a BIG part of the problem