tactic

• “Forget the emotional content of this particular bill, this tactic is the most infantile, ridiculous approach a politician could take, and the lizard-brains on the right gobble it up.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Obstructionism from Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) Boosting Lord’s Resistance Army

• “The prime time for this tactic is after a sunny warm front has baked the surface water for a few days.”

  Coldwater Spinnerbaiting for Bass

• “Among divorcing couples, this tactic is a way to keep one spouse from getting at the asset.”

  Compromise is vital to forming a successful financial life together

• “The arguing tactic is called "special pleading," and it's a dirty rhetorical trick indeed!”

  Boing Boing

• “The Republican tactic is to raise objections because they never have anything positive to say themselves.”

  Dean Screams for Health Care Reform (Blog for Democracy)

• “Other analysts think Standard Chartered's analysis may be right, though they note that if China has, in fact, cut back on new Treasury purchases, it could be a short-term tactic—and it doesn't necessarily mean China is riding to Europe's rescue or wants to do so.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Beijing's Moves Point to Europe Aid

• “I have a very simple method for determining if a tactic is torture or not.”

  Think Progress » CPAC audience boos former GOP Rep. Bob Barr for saying waterboarding is torture.

• “Do you also know that the person in charge of this new PR tactic is none other than Ari Fleischer?”

  Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 13, 2010

• “Oh, and another typically conservative tactic is to co-opt the most successful movies as paeans to conservative cultural/political concepts.”

  Think Progress » Steele on serving as RNC chair: God has ‘placed me here for a reason.’

• “Whatever the rationale, Fox News ongoing witch hunt tactic is a proven loser.”

  The Huffington Post: Timothy Karr: Fox News Tries to Foreclose on Sesame Street

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