Demonized Thought Crime
| Eric Holder | Politicizing justice via enforcement of voting rights, civil rights, gay rights, and financial reform laws |
| Jan Schakowski (D-IL) | calling welfare cuts “literally taking food out of the mouths of hungry babies” |
| Chuck Todd | Criticizing the “who started it” discourse around the sequestration |
| Saul Alinsky | Community organizing |
| Jane Mayer | “McCarthyist attack on Ted Cruz” |
| Rand Paul | Defending cuts in defense spending |
| Ray LaHood | talking about sequestration’s effects on air travel |
| Rick Scott, Bob McDonnell, John Kasich, Susan Martinez | “flipping” on accepting federal Medicaid subsidies |
Lionized Defense of the Indefensible
| Calvin Coolidge | Cutting taxes; spending cuts; stimulating the economy |
| Andrew Mellon | See Coolidge, above |
| Jeff Sessions | Welfare cuts as the best thing for the disadvantaged |
| Marco Rubio | Calling sequestration defense cuts “devastating” and accusing Obama of weakening national defense |
| Grover Norquist | Championing elimination of state income taxes |
| Ted Cruz | claiming that Obama’s faculty friends at Harvard during his student days were communists dedicated to overthrowing the US government |
Politiscripts, by Richard Roth 