an anatomy of key memes, phrases and obsessions in Wall Street Journal editorials and other precincts of the GOP blogosphere, March 4-15, 2013
| anti-carbon agenda | Obama administration’s energy policy. aka, “Walden Pond”. See also: “manufactured hysteria” |
| balanced budget, budget gimmicks | “balanced budget” is what the GOP uses as a smokescreen to avoid talking about the details of the latest Ryan budget; every Dem budget proposal is a “gimmick”. |
| campaign mode | Whenever the administration asserts itself. Always contrasted to “governing,” which is what the GOP House does when it asserts itself |
| comprehensive cost-sharing in Medicare | Means-testing |
| confidence | What the business sector lacks; can only be supplied by trickle-down economics and tax cuts |
| crony government | Dems’ web of Wall Street/Green Sector/Hollywood connections |
| faith in the people | The heart of the new GOP with a human face; always contrasted to the Dems’ “faith in government” |
| inflexible | Obama on the budget: no matter what spending cuts he proposes, GOP claims he is “inflexible” and offers no cuts |
| manufactured hysteria | Climate change; The Church of Global Warming |
| overreach | All-purpose word for gun control, carbon tax, affirmative action, Obamacare |
| risk premium | Cart blanche for insurers to charge whatever they want due to Obamacare’s mandate of universal coverage |
| The One | Continuing meme of Obama The Supreme; aka, the Obamaborg, Caesaropapism; The Prince of Pennsylvania Avenue, a “distilled Alynskyite”, a “utilitarianism that would make Machiavelli shudder” |
Politiscripts, by Richard Roth 