an anatomy of key memes, phrases and obsessions in Wall Street Journal editorials and other precincts of the GOP blogosphere, Feb. 26-March 3, 2013
| balanced cuts | spending cuts replacing any tax hike |
| campaign mode | whenever Obama leaves Washington to make a speech; what Peggy Noonan calls his “soft-voiced pugilism” |
| flexibility, moving money between accounts | allowing the GOP to brandish their own line-item veto on the entire federal budget |
| government workers | Krauthammer: “nepotistic incompetents” |
| mainstream media | “house-broken” by Obama |
| Medicare premium support | means-testing. |
| muscle and fat ; (aka, “non-essential fluff”) | any federal programs for: job-training, nutrition assistance, teacher quality, financial literacy, homelessness alleviation or teen pregnancy |
| private world (aka, “imperious overreach”) | continuing meme of Obama’s weirdness, aloofness, haughtiness, superiority complex |
| squander | what happens when Democrats spend money on anything; 85% of gvt. spending is “sinfully wasteful and corrupt” |
| Voting Rights Act, Section V | a politicized weapon. Scalia: “a perpetuation of racial entitlement”. Any reference to race is now called “racialism”. |
Politiscripts, by Richard Roth 