Aaron Brown Just Called * "The Ultimate Mulligan"........

[global1]

I don't think that's flattering.

[aquart]

1. What does "Mulligan" mean?

[evlbstrd]

2. Pretty much "do-over" in golf, I think.

[Laelth]

18. self-delete

Have a nice day!

-Laelth

[distantearlywarning]

3. A mulligan is a game reference

It means to ignore the bad outcomes of your first turn, or to do a "restart" in the beginning of a game.

I don't understand what is meant by this in this context, though. Perhaps someone else could explain that.

[eleny]

5. Cheating? Could that be the implication?

Since there's really no way to ignore what Katrina wrought on LA just as everyone knows when a golfer screws up.

[djg21]

12. Was he talking about the hurricanes . . .

he's clearly getting a "do-over" with Rita, in that federal gov't response, if percieved to be better than adequate, will push his dismal failure in NOLA off the front pages, and allow him an opportunity to rehabilitate himself.

[category5]

20. Mulligan in golf means the player is allowed to hit another ball

without counting the previous shot. It is not a rule of golf,
it is simply an accomodation by other players as a gesture of
forgiving the bad shot.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I thought he said Hurricane Rita was "the ultimate mulligan" --

in other words, a chance to not f%ck everything up like with Katrina.

[renie408]

8. Bingo...Rita is the big "Do over"....

In golf, if you bounce your first ball off the cart path and into the lake, you can call a mulligan (if you are playing with forgiving buddies or underlings) and try, try again.

Or politically, if you leave thousands of poor people languishing on their rooftops for a week and kill a couple of thousand people with the first hurricane, you can evacuate everybody two days early with the next one and move every single breathing NG member avaiable into the state in the danger zone 48 hours ahead of time with the next one.

[Supersedeas]

25. So will the Corporate Media make timeline comparisons bt the two

Can they see that this Hurrican Mulligan is image correcting damage control?

[Inland]

6. Saw on DU a reference to "Hurricane Mulligan" a week ago, at least

Was it kentuck?

[elfin]

7. I thought the same thing

therefor Aaron or his minions read DU. the only place I have seen it called "Mulligan" which is so very true.

[Inland]

9. Here it is: it was Soleft that posted it the first time I saw it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4840405#4840418

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[renie408]

11. Wow. That is so not how I reacted.

[Z_I_Peevey]

13. I'm with you.

Welcome aboard the Good Ship Constitution, Aaron sugar.

[readermostly]

14. My take from Aaron's "Mulligan" (do-over) reference was that this time

Dubya was going to come in BEFORE the hurricane, instead of many days afterwards, like he did with Katrina. Have to get the photo-op this time, you see, and show that he is on top of things. Of course, we all know he was visiting the Del Coronado in the San Diego area, as well as pretending to play the guitar, and later having a birthday cake sharing moment in Arizona with McCain in the first days after Katrina - more photo-ops that have backfired on him. Now he wants to show how (cough - cough) strong and presidential he is.

[renie408]

15. NO matter how you slice it (get it?? SLICE?? That is a funny golf ...

reference. I kill me!), calling it a 'mulligan' is NOT flattering. Anybody who knows anything about golf knows that mostly only putzes use mulligans and they are usually an admission that you suck.

[Awsi Dooger]

16. Don't use that ugly word, slice

I used to have the greatest prettiest high draw. Then I hurt my elbow and started practicing my swing indoors. Had to cut off my follow through to miss the ceiling, and that caused an outside-in path and this ugly weak cut. Everyone is gaining distance, and I'm a weakling in the right rough. Mulligans all over the place.

[renie408]

19. Hey,man, that's your story and you stick with it!!

Sure its the elbow problem. Sure its from practicing inside. Anything you say....


My husband is the golf nut. He practices in our pasture. He swears he does not aim at the horses, but they get this really weird look in their eye and all cram up near the gate when he heads that way....

[Skittles]

22. ha ha ha

OMG I really did LOL at your post :D

[readermostly]

17. I agree!! I think Aaron was calling Dubya on his way-to-late action and

attention to Katrina and the aftermath of that devastation.

[Berserker]

24. That was great! renie408

Thats exactly what Mulligan means.

[trof]

21. Breaking: Aaron Brown plagiarizes trof and soleft:

Sept. 21
posted by trof:
Dubya* gets a do-over

I can't believe this guy's luck.
Less than a month after Hurricane Kluster-F*ck, he gets the chance to shine.
Oh you can bet they'll be ready for this one.

They've called in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines, the National Guard, the student bodies of all the service academies, the ROTC, The American Legion, the VFW, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, The Mooses, the Fraternal Order of Police, the Teamsters, the Steamfitters Union, the National Education Association, the DAR, the League of Women Voters, The Texas A & M Marching Band, and the entire civilian populations (over the age of 15) of North and South Dakota.

Those 400?...500?...800? trucks full of ice are leaving where they've been idling in Maine for the last week and headin' on down to TEXAS! YeeHaa!

Sam's, WalMart, Costco, Winn-Dixie, and the Piggly Wigglys in a 5 state radius have donated ALL their stocks for hurricane relief.

PLUS...ol' Prezdent Gee Dubya and Texas Gov. "Good Hair" Perry will have a French kissing, tongues waaayyy down each other's throats, butt slapping, high fiving, self-congratulating LOVE FEST about what a great job they did. And a little wink-wink about what can be accomplished if YOUR state would just elect a repug governor.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4840405&mesg_id=4840405

and soleft replies:
1. Hurricane Mulligan

[npincus]

23. it ain't gonna work... success this time highlights their ineptitude

last time.