As I walked up to the bureau this morning, I saw Debbie Wasserman Schultz answering questions at the cameras that waited outside.  Schultz was on Meet the Press this morning and there’s usually a small stakout outside of the bureaus or locations of all the Sunday morning shows. The idea is, if you can get the guest to say the same thing in front of your camera that they said on the show, then you do’t ahve to give another network the free commercial.  This practice has fallen off as news networks find themselves having to cut down on staff due to a lack of money.

Despite my jeans, blue tennis shoes and the tripod slung on my back, I took the opportunity to introduce myself to her and her communications director.  I figured, even on Sundays, that is kind of my job now.

While she was speaking to the cameras she mentioned the “hidden [health care] tax.”  I’ve been wondering for a while why the Democrats have not hit that message harder.  They claim that much of America is already paying for everybody else’s health care.  If this is true and our tax dollars are going to it anyway, wouldn’t it be helpful to frame the debate that way.  Is this another case of the Dems just not being that great at messaging?

Congresswoman Schultz said that she really hasn’t heard the argument that much, which surprises her. She seemed pleased that the President now is really taking a lead on health care and expects him to use the “hidden tax” argument more.

Oh and I exchanged business cards witht the communciations director because that’s apparently what I do now.  Would you like one?

(I’m going to be a total dbag in no time.)