Posted on 06/28/2014 7:43:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Irritating phrases and words are not confined to political circles, or solely to Washington, although here in the nation’s capital they burrow in and proliferate like obsolete, but entrenched, government programs. This is a call to arms to fight them—but only metaphorically.
15: “WAR ON [FILL IN THE BLANK]” Syria’s civil war has produced 2.5 million refugees and a death toll of 160,000, a tragedy that has galvanized neither major political party into action. So next time a Democrat brays about the so-called Republican “war on women” or a Republican trumpets the Obama administration’s “war on coal,” tell them you’ve seen what real war looks like—and ask what the U.S. can do to stop it.
14. “TAX HIKE” It’s not a “hike.” What are you going to do, put it in a knapsack and take it for a walk? It’s a tax increase. This usage was coined by headline writers because it’s shorter. Speaker of the House John Boehner, who often employs this phrase, has no such excuse.
13. “RIGHT-WING” This term is bandied about carelessly, usually as a pejorative. In “The Devil’s Dictionary,” Ambrose Bierce defined “conservative.” Here is the entry, in its entirety: “CONSERVATIVE, n. a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.” The converse of “right-wing,” a label freely applied to Fox News and countless Republican elected officials, is not “liberal,” it’s “left wing.”
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Usually applied to someone who has created wealth and jobs for hundreds. As if they somehow violated humanity by doing so.
Starting a sentence with “so...”
disparate impact
16. Anything ending in “gate”.
I did not have sex with that woman.
But some of them, like "Just sayin' ..." or "folks" are just polite, civil ways of expressing things people would otherwise LOVE to misinterpret or take offensively.
I gotta wonder ... the folks -- oops, make that "people" -- who write these kinds of articles about politics, don't they have anything BETTER to complain about?
Another DC idiot comparing Reagan Dems to Cochran’s. Reagan appealed to Dems via a conservative message on culture and values. Cochran appealed to Dems via race baiting, calling fellow Republicans racist, and running on a liberal agenda, e.g. Government largesse. The media is so dishonest.
I also don’t care for the misuse of the word ‘optics.’
“Bipartisan”
“My Friends”
“I just learned about in the news paper”
“Common sense”...law, legislation, etc.
(My favorite LSM expression...”unexpectedly”.)
The democrat party working to ..............
So right about “give something back”. That kind of talk is appropriate for criminals and politicians, but I repeat myself. Successful people succeed by giving in the first place and not by taking. Hollywood folks are big on “giving back”. I guess if you make millions for a few weeks of playing around, you might feel guilty as though you stole it.
We prosper by giving. Producing, creating, contributing. Call it what you will.
Anyone with a (legitimate) Ph.D. (a DOCTORATE) is entitled to the salutation “Doctor.”
I’m not a fan of euphemisms or acronyms which Americans seem to love and prefer blunt and proper English. I’m wondering if anyone knows the source and when the term blood and treasure came into widespread usage. For some reason the term just kinda rubs me wrong when I hear it used over and over on talk radio or the news. I’d rather have people describe accurately what is happening than use patriotic euphemistic phraseology but that is just me.
That picture of Clinton in your post #29 looks like he just took a toke and is holding it in while posing for the picture.
Teaching Moment.
More precisely, this inane policy of ending every scandal in the last 50 years with "-gate."
And along the same lines, although not limited to politics, referring to every obsessive or addict as "-aholic." Shopaholic. Chocaholic. Spendaholic. Alcohol is a chemical that's frequently abused and can be addictive. So what the heck is shopahol?
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