Bob Wise: “Mr. speaker, one of those embarassing genies popped out of the bottle last night when NBC-TV revealed the secret behind…”

“Mr. speaker, one of those embarassing genies popped out of the bottle last night when NBC-TV revealed the secret behind the Republican leadership strategies when the playbook was opened to public scrutiny, and the strategy described might be a little scary to Americans looking for true change. Apparently, according to the Republican leadership strategy, it is all in the wording. You do not like what you are doing, call it something else. Americans believe, according to this playbook, that the GOP is mean and uncaring. That will not do, so how do you handle it? Do not talk honestly about the programs you are going to cut that actually serve people, instead talk about slashing bureaucrats. If your aim is to cut the capital gains tax for the wealthy, do not say wealthy, talk about helping the middle class. And as the playbook says, the media is watching what comes first. The cynicism suggested in the revelation of this confidential memo will leave a sour taste in the mouths of most Americans and it should. It is time for the GOP to stop sugar coating their actions with rhetoric and bumper stickers and honestly explain to the American people what their aims are.”