TomR

Last week, I received an email invitation to attend Senator Al Franken’s open house at his St. Paul office yesterday from 3 to 7pm. I figured his office would be packed with people by 5pm, so my best bet would be to arrive at three if I wanted to speak to Al.

I’ve been invited to attend an open house at Senator Al Franken’s office next week. What do you think I should ask him?

Rush Limbaugh has been good enough to provide us with a recent example of the toxic shaming manipulation tactic:

“It would be an insult to the memory of Ted Kennedy to put his name on a bill that has rationed health care based on someone’s age and the extent of their illness…the Left is exploiting him – his death and his legacy – and they are going to do it, as predicted, to push health care through,” Limbaugh said.

Most of us recognize the manipulation tactics used by politicians today, especially Republicans, to run our country off the rails. But, have you ever wondered how these covert-aggressive tactics actually work and why they’re effective?

At a recent townhall event in northern California, U.S. House Representative Wally Herger (R-CA) used the manipulation tactic of exaggeration…

I was flipping through the television channels this morning and thought I was seeing the standard infomercials and Sunday morning religious programming, but one program caught my eye: The Coral Ridge Hour, a weekly television program founded by the late Dr. D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries. What I heard sounded awfully political in nature for a religious organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.

There’s no doubt that the Democratic leadership has betrayed their progressive supporters and Americans as a whole by not protecting their Constitutional rights from Republican abuse of power. It’s hard to imagine a legitimate scenario where this betrayal could have served our best interest.