"img src="http://squeekyfromm.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/chutzpah.jpg?w=181&h=279" Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible ‘guts,’ presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to.” In this sense, chutzpah expresses both strong disapproval and a grudging admiration. In the same work, Rosten also defined the term as “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.“ Perhaps we need a similar word for what David Ploufe , a senior White House aide said about...