The Dead Tree Theory

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We will pass over Jindal’s delivery, which sounded a little like a junior high schooler’s entry into the Chamber of Commerce “I Speak for Fiscal Restraint” contest. The content was the thing: a message to the nation that the Republicans were not going to have anything important or useful to say about the current economic crisis.
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The stimulus money will be channeled through so many hands, it is inevitable there will be waste — like planting a dead tree. At which point, the Republicans will wave their withered branches.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/opinion/26collins.html?ref=opinion

There has to be continual pushing of coverage of plans that are working to offset the idiots and their "dead trees."