Memory Hole Point Isn't Enough

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(c) 2010 F. Bruce Abel

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/opinion/08rich.html?_r=1

This column by Frank Rich must be read again and again.  The Memory Hole argument which I have felt was devastatingly to our advantage against the Republican right-wing, is only 80% effective.  We must warn against what would be coming if the Republicans took control of House and Senate again.

But rather than wait for miracles or pray that Bushphobia will save the day, Democrats might instead start playing the hand they’ve been dealt. Elections, the cliché goes, are about the future, not the past. At the very least they’re about the present. It’s time voters were told just how far right the G.O.P. has lurched since Bush returned to Texas. And the White House might also at long last — at very long last — craft a compelling message, not to mention a plan, to offer real hope to the jobless. Repeated boasts of a resurgent auto industry (where the work force is 30 percent smaller than prerecession) won’t persuade anyone, and neither will repeated assurances that legislation passed months ago will kick in over the long haul. Some 16.5 percent of America’s workers are now either unemployed and trying to find a job, involuntarily working part time, or have stopped looking for work altogether. That figure doesn’t even include the many Americans who’ve had to settle for jobs for which they are overqualified.

See the earlier blog introducing the "Memory Hole" argument we must make at every turn.