The Oral Minority - (new Democrat leadership catch phrase mocking Bush policies: "wet kiss!")

OPINION JOURNAL.COM ^ | MAY 3, 2005 | JAMES TARANTO

[CHARLITE]

The Oral Minority

A reader called our attention to a pair of strangely similar quotes from Democratic senators. On March 5, North Dakota's Byron Dorgan said of President Bush's Social Security ideas, ''This is a big wet kiss to Wall Street." Then, last Thursday, Nevada's Harry Reid, the minority leader, said of Majority Leader Bill Frist's filibuster compromise, "It's a big wet kiss to the far right."

We found several other examples of liberals referring to their opponents' actions as "wet kisses":

h Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias,' by an C. Andersonthe conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute [available at the OpinionJournal bookstore], gives a wet kiss to one of the funniest and most foul-mouthed series on television." Frank Rich, New York Times.

"Ron Reagan, the president's son, on a talk show wondered why [Florida's state Rep. Dennis] Baxley was giving a big wet kiss to the National Rifle Association with the 'use of force' bill."--Tallahassee Democrat

"A sloppy wet kiss to the credit card industry."--Loren Steffy, Houston Chronicle, on the bankruptcy-reform law.

Naturally, we wondered if American liberals have an oral fixation. About.com describes the Freudian "oral stage," which normally lasts from birth to age 1 1/2: "Because the child's personality is controlled by the id and therefore demands immediate gratification, responsive nurturing is key. Both insufficient and forceful feeding can result in fixation in this stage."

Here are the symptoms of oral fixation:

Smoking
Constant chewing on gum, pens, pencils, etc.
Nail biting
Overeating
Drinking
Sarcasm ("the biting personality") and verbal hostility

Seems to us we may be on to something here, though as we're sure Bill Clinton would hasten to point out, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[CHARLITE]

Who makes up these buzz words that party flukies come out with? There has to be some "party central" where they create talking points and catch-word phrases. Where is it? In Hillary's cellar?........or in Billery's attic?

[Milhous]

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Reid's Wet Kiss Men's News Daily, CA - 1 hour ago ... concerns? Reid called it a "big fat wet kiss to the far right". Evidently Reid is still obsessed with that verbal pornography thing. US Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) The Illinois Leader Filibustering The Judicial Nominees American Daily all 46 related »

Daily Briefing: A Big Wet Kiss
Wonkette (satire), DC - Apr 29, 2005
... Democrats denounce Frist's offer to cap senate debates at 100 hours. Reid: That's "a big wet kiss to the far right." [WP, WSJ, NYT, LAT, USAT]. ... US Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) The Illinois Leader
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Daily Briefing: A Big Wet Kiss
Wonkette (satire), DC - Apr 29, 2005
... Democrats denounce Frist's offer to cap senate debates at 100 hours. Reid: That's "a big wet kiss to the far right." [WP, WSJ, NYT, LAT, USAT]. ...

Reid Chaperones Frist Wet Kiss
Spoof News (satire) - Apr 28, 2005
... Reid quickly denounced Frist's proposal as "a big wet kiss to the far Right.". Reid is a follower of the Crash Davis school of politics. ...

Mike Lomas explores the kiss and its forms in relationships ...
오마이뉴스, South Korea - 7 minutes ago
... There's the upside-down kiss; the neck kiss; the butterfly kiss; the vacuum kiss; the nose kiss; the French kiss; the eye kiss; and the wet kiss. ...

Sgrena's Lies Will Now Cost Lives
Blogger News Network - 15 hours ago
... Thanks to Sgrena's propoganda campaign (with a great big wet kiss salute to the rabidly anti-American Italian media) and the fact that Berlusconi is in an ...

"Sistah's Let's Wake Up!"
Mathaba.Net, Africa - 21 hours ago
... We have our media induced ethics to thank for that. You see I remember watching nana give papa a wet kiss when he returned home from a hard days work. ...

Commentary by Mark Creech
Agape Press, MS - 9 hours ago
... According to LifeNews.com, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid rejected the offer, calling it a "a big wet kiss to the far right." [Jody Brown]. ...

Democrats spurn Frist proposal on judges
Seattle Times, WA - Apr 29, 2005
... His Democratic counterpart immediately labeled it "a big wet kiss to the far right," and several liberal groups were even less kind. ...

Reid Rejects Judges
Red State - Apr 30, 2005
The reference to the "Wet kiss to the far right" Reid made in response to the GOP offer to trade obscenely long debates on judicial nominees in exchange for an ...

Frist floats filibuster deal; all wet, Reid says
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription), AR - Apr 29, 2005
... but wasn’t charitable in his description. "It’sa big wet kiss to the far right," he said. Reid said Frist’s offer meant Democrats ...

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Astounding piece of research on your part. Where do you think the headquarters IS, where these phrases are created? Is it with Howlin' Howie Dean at the DNC?......or with Shrillery and Billery "in the privacy of their own home?"

The Democrats come out with this robotic repetition of catch phrases every week, it seems. They're all given their talking points and their phrases du jour. It's so obvious. I'm just wondering who is the wizard behind the green curtain, who thinks up this stuff.

[Milhous]

At least some of the blame lies with monkey hear, monkey say parrots in the Gang of 500.

Excerpt from Rush's Press Follows Gang of 500 Plan

Goes on to talk about how the tax cuts have not worked, the tax cuts have harmed people, and exactly what the blueprint from the journalist Gang of 500, Journalist Division Gang of 500 on Sunday set out as the blueprint, and another editorial in the Boston Globe: "Leaving More Homeless -- If President Bush wants to end homelessness..."

[streetpreacher]

I think it's been well established that Bill Clinton made the Democrat Party the ORAL Minority.