Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has portrayed a plan to change the way New York teachers are evaluated as a significant break with the past that would end a longstanding practice of laying off less senior teachers first.
In 2005, for example, when George Bush suggested allowing workers to divert some of their Social Security payments into private accounts, Mrs Pelosi portrayed this as a plan to unravel public pensions.
First, she announced the entire Obama campaign strategy was to "Kill Romney", and that it's all part of a plan to portray her husband "in a light that is just completely wrong … they don't' get him at all".
Those circumstances have made communicating soothing, placating, empathising: all the emotional skills he struggles with Mr Brown's main task.Blairism with an inhuman faceIn fact, his spin team did start out with a plan: to portray him as an anti-Blair, a plain blunt man and ecumenical father of the nation.
So the two fathers concoct a plan to hire someone to portray a savage and let Kitty capture him.
But most of the vice president's speech today sought to portray his plan as a gateway to wealth, security and opportunity for people who have historically had trouble putting aside any substantial amounts of money in savings.
Why, now, should Mr Sharon's unilateral plan to evacuate all the Jewish settlements from the Gaza strip later this year have to be unilateral at all? Mr Sharon has always portrayed this plan as a second best a self-interested Israeli retreat to more defensible lines while the intifada still raged.
While House Republicans have portrayed the plan as a way to address the nation's long-term financial problems, Democrats and their allies have sought to seize on public concerns over it, arguing that the changes would hurt the elderly, an influential voting group.
In an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Mr. Rangel portrayed his plan as a way to help the middle class by rescuing them from the alternative minimum tax, which was originally intended to ensure that the wealthy could not escape income taxes by using deductions and loopholes.
Administration officials and their Kentucky counterparts have portrayed the plan as a way to improve the health of low-income residents and encourage self-sufficiency among poor but able-bodied adults.
