This is the kind of stuff that makes me hate the Republicans, the Orwellian manipulation of words designed not to illuminate but to confuse.

[Link: blogs.ajc.com...]

The birth of a GOP catch-phrase: ‘Trickle-down government’

4:01 pm October 4, 2012, by jgalloway

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Instead, Romney unveiled an impressive instance of semantic jujitsu. For years, Republicans have been plagued by the name attached to their insistence that tax cuts for high-earners benefit those below: ‘Trickle-down economics.’

It carries, if you’ll pardon the expression, an unpleasant, urinary implication.

But at his first opportunity last night, Romney turned the phrase on its head:

The president has a view very similar to the view he had when he ran four years, that a bigger government, spending more, taxing more, regulating more — if you will, trickle-down government — would work.

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