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Wednesday Words: Obamacare, ‘Brokeback Iceberg’ and More [FR dissed for coining "ObamaCare"]
TIME ^
| Nov 16, 2011
| By KATY STEINMETZ
Posted on 11/16/2011 11:06:42 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Wonky word of the week: “Obamacare”
The Supreme Court this week agreed to hear three cases challenging “Obamacare,” the generally pejorative nickname for the Affordable Care Act—health care reform that Obama signed into law in March 2010. The Atlantic argues that a lobbyist should get credit for coining the phrase in a trade journal circa March 2007, though the word appears in Free Republic posts the month before. In any case, the term was widely used before the bill itself even existed. And it’s really not coinage worth fighting over: whoever invented it displayed roughly the same ingenuity as the person who scribbled out “Weinergate.”
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bongobingo; 0deathcult; deathcare; deathpanels; freerepublic; obamacare; romneycare; wonkywordoftheweek
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To: Jim Robinson
Wooohooo us! But damn....do we have to do ALL the work???
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:07:51 AM PST
by
NoGrayZone
(Stay involved..because stupid people are running America! - Herman Cain - Amen!!!)
To: Jim Robinson
I believe it should read “FR PROUDLY takes credit” for coining the term!
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:08:22 AM PST
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: Argus; onyx; trisham; TheOldLady; DJ MacWoW; JoeProBono; RedMDer; musicman; Lady Jag; MEG33; ...
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:09:50 AM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:10:33 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
To: Jim Robinson
I think we also coined “CommieCare” and “KommieKare.” :)
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:12:02 AM PST
by
BuckeyeTexan
(Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
To: NoGrayZone
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:12:33 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:14:43 AM PST
by
MEG33
(God Bless Our Military Men And Women)
To: Jim Robinson
Oh my, there is always a time we must step up to the plate and say..............wow that kicks butt!
Kicks, high fives, all that fun stuff!
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:17:43 AM PST
by
dforest
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:17:43 AM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: BuckeyeTexan
“I think we also coined “CommieCare” and “KommieKare.” :)”
Don't forget ‘Halfrican American’, ( Even though some think that was racist.)
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:18:10 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: Jim Robinson
Bumpitty bump, bump, bump!!
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:20:32 AM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
(Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
To: Jim Robinson
Huh... I’m sorry my description of Ubama’s communist/fascist health care law with its death panels never caught on: “Mengelecare”. Concise, accurate, easy to say...
To: BuckeyeTexan
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:21:18 AM PST
by
algernonpj
(He who pays the piper . . .)
To: algernonpj
Also ObamaRomneyCommieCare.
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:24:52 AM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
To: Jim Robinson
I believe FR was also the genesis of this:
To: Jim Robinson; Buckhead
They're still pissed that Buckhead destroyed Dan Ratherbiased.
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:37:23 AM PST
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: Jim Robinson
Freepers in the vanguard!
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:41:34 AM PST
by
bkopto
(Obama is merely a symptom of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
To: Jim Robinson
I’m pretty sure we got “Obamaville” ahead of the curve too.
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:50:39 AM PST
by
davius
(You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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