I suspect a planted fake document. :D

You can't tell me that the whole Cheney bang-bang incident wasn't dumbed down. "Heart event" and "peppered"...? C'mon, Leo. You're not obtuse.

To demonstrate our complete polar-oppositeness, I actually thought it was ridiculously overplayed.

I'm talking before that ad nauseum reporting of it. (Which occurred because of the secrecy behind the whole event.) The whole thing was orchestrated. No announcement for 14 hours, the overuse of the word 'peppering', downplaying the heartattack, blaming the victim for the accident... Even the VP said it was his fault, the news was going to blame Worthington for the whole event.

I'd commend them for it, but I would need to see how many of these dems voted for the automatic pay increase they all get in the first place.

They (members of both parties) voted for automatic pay raises so that they wouldn't have to vote on pay raises anymore and have the press about it.

And they can't do anything without a majority, as they are automatic. 40 means nothing, as there is nothing to filibuster. It's done (sad as that is).

The concept of voting yourself an automatic pay raise is sickening.

When did the nicknames "Dems" and "Repubs" become so commonly used?

Don't know but the earliest Washington Post article that uses both phrases is 1954.

The earliest Los Angeles Times article that uses "Dems" is 1887 and the earliest for "repubs" is 1907. Results are similar for the Washington Post. Of course, newspapers are not good places for tracking slang terms.

However, I'm not willing to pay to see the actual articles so the usage could be different.

I see. I thought it was a recent thing...

The lag for "Repubs" seems to be because for a while "Pubs" was more common. But hard to say because all I can see for free are the headlines of articles containing my search terms.

The latest Rush Limbaugh saga is more proof that the War on Drugs is as fvcktarded as any war. Who cares that Rush needs enjoys 4 hour erections when he's visiting the D.R.?


Frees up time for them to vote against minimum wage increases.