It looks like the word "Democratic" has been deleted from the Repubs.' vocabulary

They just gave a little press avail and every single Repub. called us the "Democrat party" and talked about the "Democrat plan." I wish Obama would say something about it, that if they're truly working with the President to be bi-partisan, they could start by using the proper term for his party. :eyes:

Like it was one of his Bushims. They are all doing it now.

then claimed it was a "slip of the tongue."

be trusted and should be marginalized and eliminated as much as possible from all aspects of American society.

That Pres. obama continues to try to work with these cretins is the major mark against him. I just hope he smartens up before too long.

They sound really stupid & ignorant when they purposefully fuck up the English language.

Morons.

Maybe the Dems need to start calling them "repuke" instead of republican. :evilgrin:

And the talking heads never correct them when they say "Democrat"

They all have their orders, and are following them to the letter.

they have used that phrase before. Maybe on Faux they use it, but I've never seen THs use it.

Just saying, he hears it and lets it go too.

I didn't hear a Repub. using it yesterday on his show. I DID hear them reading Limbaugh's comments where HE used it.

should start referring to the Republican Party as the Republic Party, since the Republicans want to play this stupid little Limbaugh game.

They then become the republic party or the publican party.

or the RepubliCON party and stress the "con."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/21/AR2006112101223.html

And you're right; it is a stupid little limpballs game.

One or twice commented on --- then taken as normal.

R e p u b l i c a n

There we go!

ONE TRACK MINDS

Too bad they lost. Deal with it.

From August, 2006...

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The history of “Democrat Party” is hard to pin down with any precision, though etymologists have traced its use to as far back as the Harding Administration. According to William Safire, it got a boost in 1940 from Harold Stassen, the Republican Convention keynoter that year, who used it to signify disapproval of such less than fully democratic Democratic machine bosses as Frank Hague of Jersey City and Tom Pendergast of Kansas City. Senator Joseph McCarthy made it a regular part of his arsenal of insults, which served to dampen its popularity for a while. There was another spike in 1976, when grumpy, growly Bob Dole denounced “Democrat wars” (those were the days!) in his Vice-Presidential debate with Walter Mondale. Growth has been steady for the last couple of decades, and today we find ourselves in a golden age of anti-“ic”-ism.

In the conservative media, the phenomenon feeds more voraciously the closer you get to the mucky, sludgy bottom. “Democrat Party” is standard jargon on right-wing talk radio and common on winger Web sites like NewsMax.com, which blue-pencils Associated Press dispatches to de-“ic” references to the Party of F.D.R. and J.F.K. (The resulting impression that “Democrat Party” is O.K. with the A.P. is as phony as a North Korean travel brochure.) The respectable conservative journals of opinion sprinkle the phrase around their Web sites but go light on it in their print editions. William F. Buckley, Jr., the Miss Manners cum Dr. Johnson of modern conservatism, dealt with the question in a 2000 column in National Review, the magazine he had founded forty-five years before. “I have an aversion to ‘Democrat’ as an adjective,” Buckley began.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/07/060807ta_talk_hertzberg

I've read about that, too. These people need to be called out by the President to set them straight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/21/AR2006112101223.html



"Democrat Party was used, pardon the phrase, liberally by Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy. According to the Columbia Guide to Standard American English, " Democrat as an adjective is still sometimes used by some twentieth-century Republicans as a campaign tool but was used with particular virulence" by McCarthy, "who sought by repeatedly calling it the Democrat party to deny it any possible benefit of the suggestion that it might also be democratic." The word also achieved a prominent run with Bob Dole's especially ugly reference to "Democrat wars" during the 1976 vice presidential debate."

Used as an adjective it is clearly pejorative. There is no adjectival form of the word "democrat" in either the Concise Oxford English Dictionary or the American Heritage Dictionary and no doubt many others. The "DemocRAT" form was spread far and wide on right wing Internets sites and that probably accounts for the current widespread use even in Congress. I think Pelosi should have called it out of order when they started using it on the floor of the House.

these people are hilarious!

and Chris Matthews let some woman (I think she was a right-wing talk show host) get away with it yesterday.

Clearly, someone got the talking points out. Republicans "in disarray" my ass. They are like a really mean animal cornered in a cave.

I'm sick to death of hearing them disrespect our party like that. I want to demand that Obama demand them to cut it out.

I'M sick to death of it, too.

Fuck them and their support of that racist prick Limbaugh. Obama, quit pandering to these assholes who want to hold our county back. I can't believe I even thought the idea of bipartisanship was a good idea, what was I thinking!

the more he does and the more the Repubs. keep disrespecting him, Obama will be seen as the winner. The Repub. party's ratings will drop even further.

.... the preferred party of the American voters. ;)

but I STILL wish they'd be told to stop by Obama.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/21/AR2006112101223.html


"Democrat Party was used, pardon the phrase, liberally by Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy. According to the Columbia Guide to Standard American English, " Democrat as an adjective is still sometimes used by some twentieth-century Republicans as a campaign tool but was used with particular virulence" by McCarthy, "who sought by repeatedly calling it the Democrat party to deny it any possible benefit of the suggestion that it might also be democratic." The word also achieved a prominent run with Bob Dole's especially ugly reference to "Democrat wars" during the 1976 vice presidential debate."

republicans are not associated with Democratic process or themes they are corporal/corporate; believing that governance is not required to be civil but flows when they decide that it does but always down, from above, and from the hands of they determined to be the power elite...republicans

The Democratic Party has Democracy right there in it; republican intent is to stagger & stumble the relationship the Democratic Party has to Democratic themes. It's really all republicans have had for decades now; obfuscating the hopes & dreams of We ~ The American People http://mediamatters.org/items/200608160005

...between a noun and an adjective. Those who use use it like an adjective are just exhibiting their ignorance.

...that the mere fact that they're doing it on purpose even though they know it's wrong is what makes them ignorant. Let's just keep reminding them whenever we hear them using it, i.e., remind them of their ignorance!

My bad. :hi:

can't remember who tho

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And you should have seen the look on his face!!

She had two guests on to discuss the stimulus package-- and as she introduced them, she said "Democratic Party Anyalist" and "Republic Party Analyst"..

I'm sure it was just a slip of the tongue for her, but I hope she does it again!

bs on tax cuts, infrastructure projects, etc. she counter argued a with Democratic position. She was pretty vicious quite a few times - Loved her! She even countered the R meme that people who don't pay taxes don't deserve a stimulus check.

She really surprised me with her ruthlessness :rofl:

even though Rush's quote was the "Democrat Party." :D

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----> It is only a youtube click away -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsqprEihjXg

Anthony Weiner (D) New York rips the "Republic" Party" !!!

Thanks for that! :hi:

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I can't remember which of our awesome DU'ers posted that on the very day that NY Congressman ripped the "Republic" Party and that was filmed, but I sure do remember how much we all got a kick out of it!!!!

Congressman Anthony Weiner is too cool! ~~~~ He rips Rethugs by day, and is the goalie on a local hockey team in his area during his off time.

I'm jealous of our lucky ducky New York DU'ers!!

Still.... I love them (and our DU'ers from every state, nation and planet) to pieces!!!

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I posted the above.. then I was just thinking to myself.. huh - - after posting all of that, what if Jen is from NY?

I checked and.... (((((( ))))))

I swear, I didn't even know!!!

So make that.. I am jealous of YOU TOO Jen!!!

You lucky ducky duck!! ~~~~~~

My congressman is Eliot Engel. But HE'S a Dem. and he was brave enough to go on The Colbert Report:
http://www.colbertnation.com/video/tag/Eliot+Engel
But still, thanks for the sentiment. :hug:

Yup, he IS cool!

I'm from NY, but not his district. But that's nice of you! :hi:

The Republicons.

But in our case, the corporate media, dominated by right wing ownership, won't go along.

:fistbump:

And I liked the discussion elsewhere on this site about making sure to call the current crisis the Bush Depression.

I think it's a good thing that I'm not the only one with that idea. And I like the idea of calling it the Bush Depression, too. :hi:

So I didn't want the Democrats to compromise with them.

But President Obama is a great strategist, so he may have wanted our fellow citizens to see those gross Republicon leaders in all their obstructionist glory.

And perhaps next time the Republicons push their policies, he can refuse them by noting that they didn't compromise on the stimulus plan and he doesn't feel the need to compromise with them any more.

"Republicant" was suggested by Sherman Yellen on HuffPo back in 2006 -- -- even before Obama began his campaign. Today, of course, "Republicant" ties in very nicely as a contrast to "Yes, We Can".

:sarcasm: If your point is they HAVE been calling it the "Democrat party," MY point is they're claiming to want to be part of this new bipartisanship, and blaming the "Democrat party" for NOT acting in a bi-partisan way. AND, Obama should CALL them on it. (Or maybe Pelosi should do it.)

I heard this over and over in the last few days, Democrat party. Screw those fuckers! I am now boycotting the word Republican. It will now and forever be Republicon in my vocabulary. I know Obama wouldn't like me-I'm not bipartisan.

But the are CONS every last one. CON meaning fake, fraud and AGAINST anything good for humanity. (WHEW. That felt good.)

high up in the Dem. party!

They know it gets under our skin and they use it to piss us off. If by some miracle they are serious about working with the other side they will stop doing it.

What can one expect from Republics.

I done seen it on the teevee.

It must be correct if he does it, right?

(It's appeasing crap, akin to being cowed into never using the term "liberal".)

The use of the term "Christianist" has been talked about as a way of referring to our domestic Taliban (I enthusiastically endorse the use of that term). We should do the same with "Republican." They should be called "Republicanists."

they show some respect to the WINNERS.

whether we're the winners or not.