Posted on 02/23/2018 7:51:20 AM PST by Red Badger
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pet·ti·fog·ger ˈpedēfôɡər/ noun archaic noun: pettifogger; plural noun: pettifoggers
an inferior legal practitioner, especially one who deals with petty cases or employs dubious practices.
Origin mid 16th century: from petty + obsolete fogger ‘underhanded dealer,’ probably from Fugger, the name of a family of merchants in Augsburg, Germany, in the 15th and 16th centuries.
We have one, with a little bit of Winston Churchill thrown in to guide guts with wisdom.
No, that’s why we have hurricanes, because the Oak are loosa.............
Especially the Live Ones.
“The illustrious Honest Old Abe has continued during the last week to make a fool of himself and to mortify and shame the intelligent people of this great nation.
His speeches have demonstrated the fact that although originally a Herculean rail splitter and more lately a whimsical story teller and side splitter,
he is no more capable of becoming a statesman, nay, even a moderate one, than the braying ass can become a noble lion.
People now marvel how it came to pass that Mr. Lincoln should have been selected as the representative man of any party.
His weak, wishy-washy, namby-pamby efforts, imbecile in matter, disgusting in manner, have made us the laughing stock of the whole world.
The European powers will despise us because we have no better material out of which to make a President.
The truth is, Lincoln is only a moderate lawyer and in the larger cities of the Union could pass for no more than a facetious pettifogger.
Take him from his vocation and he loses even these small characteristics and indulges in simple twaddle which would disgrace a well bred school boy.”
https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/evidence-unpopular-mr-lincoln
Reading the rest of that article, you could take Lincoln’s name and replace it with Trump and you’d have a New York Times Editorial piece..............
Yep, striking resemblance.
Foggy/rainy today-again-but it is 58-warmer by far than yesterday...
Robert Mueller and his staff
Just scramble to have a deal
For the creative indictments
Enabling them to just steal
More millions from taxpayers
For some phantom collusion-
But the pettifoggers are now
In the grip of some confusion
Their witch hunt is one farce
With cracks starting to show
Get snouts out of the trough-
It’s past time for them to go
Me too.
Say the word, and I think of that character.
Pettifogger was an interesting Freeper.
We have had a freeper by that handle. I do not know if she is still around.
GMTA
Would you care for some brownies?
Yes
Please!
pettifogger’s last post was 8/21/2015
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