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A QUICK STUDY IN DEMOCRAT-SPEAK ... DETAILED CHEAT SHEET
Roman Around ^ | 3 February 2009 | Andrew Roman

Posted on 02/03/2009 6:48:38 AM PST by andrew roman

taking-notes

If, as Vice President Joe Biden asserted during the campaign, paying taxes is a measure of one's patriotism, then both Tom Daschle and Timothy Geithner are this century's Sacco and Vanzetti. And if the Obama "tax cut" deception becomes law, then it will - by the grace of messianic engineering - have afforded the federal government the opportunity to create a far more patriotic class of Americans then we have now.

See how clever liberals can be? They're not only masters at igniting skirmishes in their ongoing class war, but they excel at constructing the definitions that make the whole world sing.

For example, in Democrat-speak, "earmarks" are not earmarks unless they are last-minute add-ons of pet projects shoved into an already existing bill without review. In Dem-land, it isn't the wasteful spending itself that makes it an earmark - like, for instance, replacing defective air conditioning systems in Buffalo, New York or installing on-site hydrogen dispensers for fork-lift hydrogen battery applications in Columbia, South Carolina - it's the process by which it gets into the bill.

In Democrat-speak, "tax cuts" for "working Americans" means tax rate increases on the wealthiest Americans. A tax cut, by definition, is lowering a specific tax rate - like an income tax rate, for example - so that more of one's own money is kept. Thus, a genuine tax cut does not involve taking from someone else. By contrast, the Obama crapulous plan boosts tax rates on those in the upper income tax brackets so that the revenue collected can be redistributed to those who don't deserve it. Call it welfare. Call it socialism. Call it a lie.

In Democrat-speak, "unity" is defined as ...

(Excerpt) Read more at romanaround.net ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: bho2009; democarts; democrats; democratspeak; liberals; obama

1 posted on 02/03/2009 6:48:38 AM PST by andrew roman
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To: andrew roman

Great list!


2 posted on 02/03/2009 7:10:09 AM PST by Sister_T (The Obama Administration = Clinton's Third Term)
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To: andrew roman

LOL! Good one!


3 posted on 02/03/2009 7:12:24 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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To: andrew roman

I just mailed the link to this to Rush Limbaugh.

And I’ll bet you he uses it on the air today, as it’s “brilliant but accurate”.


4 posted on 02/03/2009 7:13:21 AM PST by George Smiley (They're not drinking the Kool-Aid any more. Now they're eating it straight out of the packet.)
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To: George Smiley
"And I’ll bet you he uses it on the air today, as it’s “brilliant but accurate”."

Rush is on vacation this week.

5 posted on 02/03/2009 7:24:17 AM PST by blam
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To: blam

You’re right, now that I think about it.


6 posted on 02/03/2009 7:32:28 AM PST by George Smiley (They're not drinking the Kool-Aid any more. Now they're eating it straight out of the packet.)
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To: andrew roman

7 posted on 02/03/2009 7:41:26 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: andrew roman
If, as Vice President Joe Biden asserted during the campaign, paying taxes is a measure of one's patriotism, then both Tom Daschle and Timothy Geithner are this century's Sacco and Vanzetti
The Rosenbergs more like it.
8 posted on 02/03/2009 7:46:09 AM PST by dbz77
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