George W. Bush. From Bush's Absent-WithOut-Leave Texas Air National Guard "duty" during the Viet Nam war, not his disappearance on 9/11.

Acr. Assholes Who Will Say Anything; the nether regions of the VRWC. Usage example: "Free loofah with your AWWSA membership!"

Beltway Conventional Wisdom. As opposed to PO (Public Opinion). Originated by Shystee.

N. 1. Of a Democrat: date-raped. 2. Of a Republican: Mission accomplished!

Fuck you; fuck off. Usage example: How does a Tennesee woman say "Fuck you"? "Bless her heart."

Fuck you; fuck off. Usage example: How does a Tennesee woman say "Fuck you"? "Bless his heart."

Fuck you; fuck off. Usage example: How does a Tennesee woman say "Fuck you"? "Bless their hearts."

George W. Bush. Poss. from Bush's intermittently roseate complexion. Usage example: Blotchy hasn't had a press conference in awhile. Has he broken out again, or is he shopping round for a new ear-piece?

N. Bush enabler; closet Republican. Usage example: "Centrists like Joe Lieberman."

N. Perverts Christianity to achieve political power or wealth, "practic[ing] their piety before others in order to be seen by them" (Matthew 6:5). Term coined by Andrew Sullivan. See AWWSA.

n. Showing appropriate deference to authoritarians. Example: CBS brought a new level of civility to American political discourse by cancelling a mini-series on Reagan that wingers deemed insufficiently hagiographical.

The words than can never be spoken, and perhaps have never been said.

Marine slang: A clusterfuck was any group of Marines big enough to draw enemy fire, or several Marines close enough together to be wounded by the same incoming round. More generically, a clusterfuck was something that was all screwed up, i.e. "That blocking operation was a giant clusterfuck!" Whenever three or more CAP Marines gathered in the open, talking or working on something, somebody was sure to call out "clusterfuck!" and one or more guys would walk away. (Capmarine.com)

Clearly, Bush's war of choice in Iraq is "all screwed up"; that makes it a clusterfuck by definition. However, the term is even more a propos. Tactically, Bush's war of choice in Iraq is a clusterfuck. The analogy to "Marines close enough together to be wounded by the same incoming round" is clear. In Vietnam, "in the open" meant being exposed in the rice paddies or jungles. In Iraq, "in the open" means (1) urban warfare where (2) troops (and contractors) must be supplied by trucks which (3) are not armored thereby making them vulnerable to (4) the "incoming rounds" of IEDs placed along the roadside. Nice work, Inerrant Boy. (And the resonance to the words of Matthew 18:19, "wherever two or three are gathered together," is heartbreaking.) Strategically, Iraq is a clusterfuck, too. Look again at the definition: "close enough together to be wounded by the same incoming round." Well, if the "incoming round" is a loose nuke in a shipping container (back) Bush will have managed to clusterfuck not just 2000 soldiers in Iraq, not just tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, but one or another Blue major ports. (Not that such an object lesson of the unquenchable fire from heaven (back) purging the country of gays, non-Christians, ESLers, and Democrats would make our theocrat rulers anything but joyful.) Paranoid scenario, you say? Tinfoil hat time? Seriously, does anyone think that a progression from small IEDs, to large IEDs, to missiles fired against ships in Jordan is going to stop there? Bush's war of choice has made Iraq a training ground (back) for these guys, worse than Afghanistan ever was (and OBL—remember him?—was blowback from Afghanistan). That asshole has put all of us in the crosshairs... NOTE: A tip of the Ol' Corrente Hat to the man in the grey turtleneck for mainstreaming the word "clusterfuck" when applied to Bush's war of choice in Iraq.

Noun. When Republicans get more than they ever dreamed of asking for.

N. Authoritarian greedhead on the winger billionaire tit.

Conventional Wisdom. Usage example: The slightly stale CW, as promulgated by bigfoot "Dean" Broder. (As an abbreviation for the name of a certain C-list blog, CW may alternatively mean the opposite of "Conventional Wisdom.")

Don't Click On Wingnuts. Every time you click through to a Right-Wing website or a Winger pundit's web page, you increase the value of advertising on that site. The link is there for reference, but don't click on it, if you can help it. Definitely don't click on their ads. It only helps their bottom line. Discussed here.

Dirty Fucking Hippy. Hat tip, Atrios.

Dirty Fucking Hippies. Hat tip, Eschaton, Lord of Patchouli.

Adj. 1. Having grabbed one's ankles (of a Democrat); 2. Dominated by wingers (of a process); 3. In power (of a Republican).

Acronym. Democrat In Name Only. Usage example: "The DINOs in the Centrist Coalition."

a. Holding Republicans and Conservatives accountable.

The origin of the term is obscure; everyone talks about the duck pit, but nobody ever says where it is, what it is, or how the people destined for it will get there. Believed to be a Babylon 5 reference, however. Usage example: Aux duck pits, citoyens I found this at Orcinus: "Some liberal commenters, for instance, on certain threads I read have devised, satirically, a "duck pit" into which all conservative minions will be cast on the day of liberal reckoning, there to be nibbled to death by a thousand hungry ducks." If I remember correctly, it originated in comments at Atrios, as a response to violent threats by Right Wing trolls. Sometimes sillines and absurdity are are a good antidote for hatred.

1. Good on TV. 2. Not elected.

1. To assuume that competing sides, especially political parties, are equally extreme, equally guilty, etc. 2. To treat a dubious position as arguably equivalent to a legitimate one.(Vast Left) Usage example: Joe Klein equivalates by comparing Rush to Markos.

1. The assumption that competing sides, especially political parties, are equally extreme, equally guilty, etc. 2. Treating a dubious position as arguably equivalent to a legitimate one. (Vast Left)

1. The assumption that competing sides, especially political parties, are equally extreme, equally guilty, etc. 2. Treating a dubious position as arguably equivalent to a legitimate one. (Vast Left)

Fascism. In UseNet discussions (and indeed, most discussions) the use of the F-word signals the end of useful discussion, via the operations of Godwin's Law. Unfortunately, this prevents the F-word from being used analytically. Orcinus sometimes uses the similar but more neutral term corporatist.

Acr. Fucked In The Head. Usage examples: See FITH Watch.

The idea that we're going to fight our enemies on Iraqi soil, whether they like it or not.

Noun. A Free Republic zealot, often distinguished by an unnatural obsession with the Clenisâ„¢ (q.v.).Usage example: Gosh, that comments section is really infested by freepers.Thanks to alert readers Doug Gillet and Xan.

A right-winger. Usage example: That fruitcake theocrat, Antonin Scalia, is nuttier than Mussolini!

Vulgar. Fuck the Fundamentalists. Usage
example: "My tax dollars are paying for a book in the Grand Canyon gift
shop that claims the earth is 6000 years old. FTF."< See also "Campaign Against Fundamentalism," here

Our guarantee to you that the post containing this term is not Corporate or Government propaganda. Say Fuck proudly! And get the T-shirt.

A form of psychological abuse characterised by persistent denials of fact which, over time, have the effect of causing the victim to become anxious, confused and progressively less able to trust his or her memory and perception. From the 1944 movie gaslight with Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman.

To a Republican, being held accountable.

It's OK If You're A Republican. Believed originated in Atrios comments.

Verb. 1. To lie for the purpose of convincing a large number of persons to adopt some policy that was bad for them. Usage example: "The mole libbied the public on behalf of a foreign power." 2. To launch a vindictive smear. "To retaliate for the critical review of the film, the director had the newspaper libbied." Suggested by Juan Cole.

Noun. 1. Reality-based. 2. In Republican usage, a hate trigger. Usage example: A liberal isn't afraid to experiment, and change their thinking if the experiment doesn't pan out. Usage example: Liberal programs like Social Security.

Noun. The kind of wing-nut that attaches the wheel to the axle of (say) the Republican juggernaut.

Bush Mandate.

Moronic Brownshirt Fuck. Originated by dave.

Usage example: Oh, that's just Anonymous--what an MBF!

The McCain Pro-torture and Incumbent Protection Enabling Act, informally known as the "Military Commissions Act."

N. 1. Sucker. 2. Bush enabler. Usage example: "Al From is a moderate."

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Misogynist Of The Day. Hat tip, ChicagoDyke.

Media Whore. From the now silent site Media Whores Online. Usage example: Rove's bumboy, Howie Kurtz, is a true MW.

Obama Fan Base

1. What a Republican does with words, to evade detection or indictment. 2. To decode a Republican lie, or other emanation of the VRWC.