As more and more Americans lose faith that their government can do anything to bring back jobs and wages, they are becoming more susceptible to the Republican's oft-repeated lie that the problem is government — that if we shrink government, jobs will return, wages will rise, and it will be morning in America again.
Davutoğlu has been largely reactive in his foreign policy since the beginning of the Arab protests claiming that Ankara worked with all actors even as his oft-repeated goal of "zero problems with neighbors" has become "zero neighbors without problems" given the precipitous deterioration of relations with Iran, Iraq, and Syria over last few months.
But San Diego consumers, once again insulated from rate increases, have shrugged off the crisis, in part because they have taken to heart the governor's oft-repeated claim that the problems are the fault of out-of-state power generators that need to be reined in.
To Pyongyang, that oft-repeated refrain about pressure is the problem.
Perhaps the problem lies in this oft-repeated but fraudulent juxtaposition, for the two issues are not mutually exclusive.
The problem is not the oft-repeated curmudgeonly line that "No one makes any good music anymore".
"This is playing around at the edges, as opposed to really dealing with the problem," the mayor continued before taking his oft-repeated stance that the Board of Education should be eliminated.
So the problem with the individual mandate is not just the oft-repeated objection that the government forces people to buy a product from a private company, but that it forces most people to buy a seriously overpriced product.
But those lessons are boring and oft-repeated — does Los Angeles really need to be told for the millionth time that it has a sprawl problem, or a traffic problem, or a lack of good public transit?
Despite the oft-repeated falsehood that Britain has run out of money, 48 per cent believed that, "despite recent economic problems, the UK is a rich country and can afford decent public services".
Katie Boyle, who has died aged 91, was known for her Dear Katie problem page in the TV Times and her multilingual compering of the Eurovision Song Contest — especially for her oft-repeated phrase "nul points".
