I am moved to contrition by this discussion of disrespecting Bush by such horrid name-calling. I take back “blood thirsty pig fucking ruling class shithead.”
You mean a giant invisible rabbit put him up to it?
And well you should.
He didn’t have any class.
Nah, wrong Harvey.
pfffft unless they’ve been ***BIFF!***ed and ***KAPOWW!***ed by West and Ward, they’re not real.
In kaylasdad-land, anyway.
Is not Fascism that school of political thought that holds that communities and societies have rights over the individual?
“Drill here, drill now” or “drill baby drill”
Now we are cooking with heat! Lay 'em on us!
Actually, that’s practically every school of political thought except for anarchism. And you don’t mean “rights,” you mean “powers.”
No, I mean rights. In Islamic thought, the community has a right to not be disturbed for example.
Oooh, I got another one.
“Under the Bus” or any derivation thereof, which I see **Jackmanii **mentioned.
Oh, and, “Algore,” of course.
E.g., see Newt Gingrich’s 2004 GOPAC memo, “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control.”
“The Left” or “The Right”, in capitals, as if there were a Central Committee or something.
“Hive Mind”
Hardly needs to be mentioned, but any variation on “Wake up, sheeple!” My goodness, I love the word ‘sheeple’. It’s like tattooing ‘I’m a credulous ninny’ on your forehead.
‘Shrub’, to be appreciated, absolutely needs to be said in a laconic Texas accent. Utterly loses its appeal otherwise. Shruuuuuuub. Still inappropriate, but pleasanter.
I honest to goodness hate ‘teabagger’, though. Yes, someone said it as a mistake, but just as I’m not required to get or appreciate Spongebob-related humor, I don’t expect someone middleaged who doesn’t spend a lot of time online or playing videogames to know what ‘teabagging’ is. I’m not a Tea Partier: I rather like tea and I’m a little upset that they’ve taken over a favorite pastime to compare themselves to a theoretically more honorable cause (though protecting the family smuggling business is only honorable in hindsight), but it’s a bit like baa’ing every time you see Hal Briston…
…well, I guess I see the appeal then. Still!
No, “Shrub” was made up by Molly Ivins. Kimstu’s cite doesn’t say what she apparently thought it did.
Regards,
Shodan
Ta. That’s more in line with my perception of the nickname.
Congress-critters.
I think we need to carefully distinguish between terms you’re bone-tired of hearing, like “thrown under the bus”, and terms that brand the user an idiot.
“Thrown under the bus” merely brands the user a purveyor of cliche, not a complete idiot.
The nickname originated from GeeDubyas first doomed foray into the Texas awl bidness, he named it “Arbusto” which is Spanish for “shrub”. This requires one to believe that GeeDubya had, at some time, something like a sense of humor.