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Once-presidential phrase casualty of word war(Obama killed "shovel ready"?)
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| 12/31/09
Posted on 12/31/2009 2:36:25 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Killed because of the nexus between the term “shovel ready” and the death panels of Obamacare.
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posted on
12/31/2009 2:40:50 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Sarah Palin - For such a time as this)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Guess they finally decided to call a spade a spade.
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posted on
12/31/2009 2:42:27 AM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(I'd rather be an AGW denier than a dumbass Watermelon)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I don’t know, I think the health care bill is shovel ready. Let’s bury the damn thing.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Many other terms related to the federal stimulus or the failing economy that inspired it have been thrown into the semantic scrap heap for 2010, including "stimulus" (the more blunt "bailout" bit the dust last year), "toxic assets" and "too big to fail" apparently, failure was an option. The "hip" crowd in the White House is wearing out even their semantic welcome, apparently.
"Let me be clear" also should have made the list. Maybe next year.
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posted on
12/31/2009 2:44:45 AM PST
by
browardchad
("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own fact." - Daniel P Moynihan)
To: browardchad
Every time I hear him say “Let me be clear,” I want to throw something at the TV.
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posted on
12/31/2009 2:49:50 AM PST
by
Tom_Busch
(The big media IS the enemy)
To: VeniVidiVici
“Guess they finally decided to call a spade a spade.”
LOL
Maybe brilliant, superior, intellectual, really smart liberal nuance from the mouths of psychotic, adolescent, obnoxious Democrats didn’t work so well this time.
They’ll just have to come up with another phrase that will inspire those brilliant independents-who-are-really-Democrats to vote the communist party line once again.
(Herr Goebbles would be proud.)
IMHO
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posted on
12/31/2009 2:51:20 AM PST
by
ripley
To: TigerLikesRooster
Obama's approval ratings are "Shovel Ready."
Soon, that pathetic loser will be about as popular Idi Amin.
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posted on
12/31/2009 2:51:21 AM PST
by
GI Joe Fan
(GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Some more I’d like to banish...
Went missing
Doable
Off-putting
Actually
To: Tom_Busch
Every time you hear him say Let me be clear,it means he is about to spin some thing.
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:05:20 AM PST
by
Vaduz
To: Vaduz
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:06:53 AM PST
by
Tom_Busch
(The big media IS the enemy)
To: Tom_Busch
Every time I hear him say Let me be clear, I want to throw something at the TV. I've joined quite a few other Americans in a cure for that -- don't watch him. Read the transcript, for what it's worth.
There is some fun to be had with the YouTube videos of his speeches. The Hopenhagen one, in particular. If you have some time to spare, turn the sound off, let it download completely, then run it at fast forward (by dragging the slider). It a frantic mishmash of head turning and bobbing, hand movements and angry facial expressions. Very revealing of the spoiled brat who didn't get his way -- twice -- in Copenhagan.
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:11:05 AM PST
by
browardchad
("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own fact." - Daniel P Moynihan)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I have a bumpersticker that states “Obamacare...call us when you are shovel ready”.
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:18:34 AM PST
by
abigailsmybaby
(To understan' the livin' you got to commune wit' da dead.)
To: TigerLikesRooster; All
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:25:57 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Mark my words.
The shovel ready jobs will flow just prior to the 2010 elections.
And all the hungry people will rejoice at the polls (well, thats the plan)
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:27:56 AM PST
by
mylife
(Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
To: Tom_Busch
Every time I hear him say Let me be clear, I want to throw something at the TV.May I suggest he adopt the following as an alternative?
"Let me depart from my usual rhetorical style consisting of vague, feel-good clichés juxtaposed with tortured semantics and outright prevarications and state..."
Regards,
To: smalltownslick
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:29:24 AM PST
by
mylife
(Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Anybody care to guess the next Obama power play word?
Has to play upon a new year, beginning, arise from the ashes etc. is my guess.
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:35:45 AM PST
by
Eye of Unk
(Phobos, kerdos, and doxa, said the Time Traveler. “Fear, self-interest, and honor.”)
To: Eye of Unk
Has to play upon a new year, beginning, arise from the ashes etc. is my guess. I'd agree the man is a real penix.
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:46:01 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Sarah Palin - For such a time as this)
To: gov_bean_ counter
sorry, I left out the ho.<p
P(ho)enix...
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:51:49 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Sarah Palin - For such a time as this)
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