Andrienne Wilson had an excellent and thoughtful post on the need to avoid using the term Kool-Aid drinker. I want to build on that thought.

One of the things angers me is when Democrats use any of the right wing frames. Hillary, for example, in recent weeks has herself shown a willingness to use the word weapons of the partisan right. Most recently at the debate she emphasized that Obama said his bitter comments in San Francisco. The name of the town has become a favorite negative catch-all the Right loves to use. Hillary did not need to stress it and could have settled for saying Obama said his words at a private fundraiser. When Democrats repeat these terms we make the Republicans' job easier.

On a slightly different tact we need to call Republicans out on all the words and phrases they regularly use not only against Democrats but those they use to describe themselves or their own actions. I want to point out in particular those phrases they employ that are actually blatant statements of ill intent but have effectively sold as positives. I picture Republicans laughing up their collective sleeves every time they use them.

Take the example of the phrase trickle down economics. They have sold it as if it is something the average American should be pleased with when in actuality this phrase is a terrible truism: the  vast majority of Americans will never receive more than a mere trickle of economic benefit under any Republican economic plan. For a quarter of a century wages and real income stagnated while the rich got richer yet somehow most Americans still believe trickle down economics is a good thing.

Another example is the term fix. When Republicans say they are going to fix any government program or problem they do not mean it in the positive way of "repair" but in the negative way as in the phrase to "fix a prize fight."  They wanted to rig Social Security and Medicare not repair it.

How many other such phrases can TPM readers come up with?  Our politicians need to start mocking each and every one of them.