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<\/a>The Czar has put together the to-do list of the President\u2019s taskforce on healthcare reform. This explains the weird actions by the White House<\/a> lately, and shows the psychology that the President is operating under. The taskforce will probably issue a priority list like this one:<\/p>\n

1. The bill is losing. Opponents are only growing, and supporters are only vanishing. We are not at a point where we can stop it, so we have to focus on slowing it down. We needed to build positive momentum, but it may be too late, so let us work on slowing down<\/em> their momentum. Mobs are strong, but individuals are weak. We need to create fear and doubt in the individual American\u2019s mind that maybe the mobs are wrong. You can only stop negative momentum one person at a time. We must talk to individuals, and not face mobs of supporters. Plan for a Congressional end-run<\/a> and have Gibbs simply deny it<\/a> to redirect a backlash.<\/p>\n

2. The original messages are not working. People do not accept that the bill is intended to lower healthcare costs as well as make health coverage available to all Americans. They know this is a farce. We must change the message to new ones: insurance companies are in cahoots. Doctors are corrupt. Medicare is a good thing and we just want to make it bigger. Continue to shift the public reaction to manipulation by right-wing extremists, the health care industry, racists, etc. Suppress, as much as possible, any discussions that Democrats and minorities are participating in protests.<\/p>\n

3. The public seems to know the contents of the bill better than we do. How is it they found elements which support the belief they might surrender their doctors, or this death panel stuff, or that school clinics can be run by political activists, or that the feds will be paying for abortions? What else is lurking in there? Why do we keep getting slammed with these interpretations? Every time we deny it, someone finds a reference. We need to start finding these things and prepare a response rather than deny it only to be hit with a citation.<\/p>\n

4. The media can no longer be trusted. Some of our biggest pawns in the media are now asking tough questions, and they seem to delight showing us video of Democrats pissing into a fan at townhall meetings. We need to find a way to win them back.<\/p>\n

5. We need to figure out what to do about Rush and Sarah. We think these two were in charge of the conservatives, but we can\u2019t seem to find solid evidence of it. We need to find out who actually is telling the public what to do and what to think, because there exists a real possibility that Rush and Sarah are not in charge of the GOP. It\u2019s almost as if the public is thinking for themselves instead of following these two. Is there a third person we don\u2019t know about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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