Here's the Casual Observers guide to Beltway Terminology...for your weekend enjoyment.
Rove Rage: The act of being pissed off before you can be pissed on.
Miller-Culpa: Lying about lying to make previous lying seem less substantial.
Scootering: Taking a grudge as far as constitutionally possible, and then just a little farther.
Floundering: Finding as many ways as possible not to answer a direct question, without actually saying anything.
Darthism: Expressing an unnatural interest in eating small children or pets as a deterrant to being asked inconvenient questions by the media.
Kellerism: Claiming to have been blindsided by an event only a blind man could not have seen. See also: Miller-Culpa.
Pinching: To steadfastly and tenaciously support a bullshitter, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence.
Boltonism: The act of intemperate destruction, no matter what the cost.
Fristianity: Making a religion of deliberate analytical errors, induced by presidential aspirations and a desire to be Dobsoned.
Dobsoned: To intentionally seek lobotomization to prove that existence without intellect and free will are possible.
Delayed: Just fucked.
Sessionism: Dunce-like state induced by auto-erotic self-asphyxiation.
Exspecterate: To orally reject an unqualified Supreme Court nominee by a president of your own party.
Cornynism: to take both sides of the same argument and punish yourself for being wrong.
Tancredoed: Campaigning against guest workers, just for demagoguery, causing cascading economic problems for millions. Use: "We would have had a great harvest, but it was tancreoed".
Duking: Ensuring the welfare of the richest of your constituents, especially Defense Contractors, at any cost. Even your own self-respect.
Hastertized: The new unwritten rules of the House of Representatives since 2000, allowing changes to made "at will". Just because.
Condying: Never being held responsible for anything. And making sure your husband isn't either.
Feel free to add your own...
posted by Jo Fish on 10.22.05 at 03:04 PM
Comments:
I'll have to work on some prison allusions for Bolton, Libby, Rove, and others. Probably need to contain something about "Cheneyed" by fellow neoconvicts.