“with a meat axe or scalpel” is the historic way to describe budget cuts. But David and every other leftist used the phrase “MACHETE or scalpel”.
On one panel a leftis started to say “meat axe” and then caught herself mid sylable, paused, looked at the other leftists and said “MACHETE”. Clearly this was the talking point.
Why MACHETE? I suggest that the left is intentionally trying to appeal to racism to get support for their side. The intend that associating the budget cutters with a MACHETE will associate budget cutters with those wild, uneducated Mexicans. It was a clear play to racism.
How many in MediaWatch, MediaMatters, etc will notice?
“The intend that associating the budget cutters with a MACHETE will associate budget cutters with those wild, uneducated Mexicans.”
Or maybe those crazy African tribalists that hack limbs off their rivals with machetes. Or maybe the Dems are trying to hype the DVD release of the nutty anti-immigration enforcement movie “Machete” :D
Or... maybe they just don’t want to offend the vegans by referring to meat cleavers?