Your Daily Talking Point

You know how the Republicans try to force crap down our throat by following daily talking points? You know, where suddenly everyone in their party is using the exact same terminology for something, terminology that did not exist the day before? Stuff like "cut and run" or "slow bleed," where they all get together on the same page and make it look like this is just common knowledge since everyone is saying the exact same thing.

It's effective. It's like in the late 60s when all the southern Republicans suddenly started pronouncing "negro" as "nigra." They knew they could no longer say "nigger" in public, so they made up a mispronunciation that had all the bile and hatred of "nigger" but for which they could plead ignorance when anyone objected. For them it worked. Their constituents knew that they meant "nigger" but they didn't have to say it. In the 80s the term became "welfare mother," Reagan coined that one. It still meant "nigger" to his constituents, but he could stand up in public and get away with saying it.

I was listening to Bill Maher this weekend and he coined a term that we all need to start using when referring to Bush. It is concise and to the point and 100% accurate like nothing I have heard before. Once you hear it you will see what I mean. It fits Bush to a tee. It defines him like no other term. Bill Maher called Bush "President Shit-For-Brains" and it was like an epiphany for me. That is exactly who Bush is: President Shit-For-Brains.

So, consider this your daily talking point. For the next week or next month or next year, whatever works for you, don't call him Bush or the Shrub or the Commander in Thief, call him what he really is: President Shit-For-Brains. It describes him, it defines him; let's make it the way everyone thinks of him.