Yesterday, a very smart and concerned patriot sent me a tweet, and asked me to write something about it. Her tweet was:

“The new republican talking point is “BIOB” – “blame it on Bush”. To which, all the dem’s can say is, “well, the truth hurts!” They need to own up to the legacy we inherited. This BIOB should be turned into something demeaning and funny against them… Don, come up with something!”

Well, I first, scratched my head, then I scratched my knee, then I scratched my keyboard. I thought, and thought, and thought, and over fed myself with coffee. I just knew there was a funny line, just about to emerge, then it never came, So I decided to take a break and let myself sleep on the thought for the night.

When I got up this morning, the thinking continued as well as the scratching,, Then it occurred to me, that the reason no humor was emerging, was there really was no humor involved in the effort of a rather small and loud minority’s attempt to dissuade 60% of our country from believing the truth. To snatch the truth from their collective thoughts, in order to promote a bankrupt philosophy, of mean, and greed and wrong. The truth for democrats is a very sad fact that does emerge from this effort. That truth is that the republican’s talking points network,, just flat out works better than ours. It has nothing to do with the right or wong of the message, just that the industrial complex of channels used by the conservatives is well oiled and churns on, regardless of the fact that only 32% of this country thinks that they have any answers to our problems. The really sad part of this is that if that network of theirs were not so effective, only 21% of our country would be listening to them, they have grown their approval from 21% to 32% just by churning out these tired and factually inaccurate messages for the past year,, in unison…. We democrats on the other hand, are all over the map with ours..never are we co-ordinated. Never.

We could have just as easily tossed that fire water back at them with a dueling acronym like “BIBM” (Barack Inherited Bush’s Mess”) or “BINOP” (But It’s Now Obama’s Problem) which would be an accurate and effective way to answer the innuendo of “BIOB”. There are major differences in the EFFORT involved in these two messages. When the conservative use their acronym “BIOB” their effort is to persuade people to ignore the facts that the mess we have in our country today was largely his administration’s fault, by concentrating on the resentments of the situation, rather than the cause of the situation. The acronyms of “BINOP” (But now it’s Obama’s Problem) or “BIBM” (Barack Inherited Bush’s Mess”) both accurately describes the truth of the situation.

Until we get our talking points network up and running, my only suggestion is to just throw back at them one of these two acronyms every time we hear their empty attempts to mislead the country by leading them by the nose.