How many things have the GOP renamed?

[ColbertWatcher]

Besides spinning the actual definition of "reform", please help compile a list of things the GOP has redefined as part of their Perpetual War propaganda campaign.

(EDIT TO ADD)
Okay, it doesn't have to be directly related to the War on Terra.

[Lasher]

1. The Inheritance Tax

Not war related but one fine example.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Reminds me of The Death Tax. Thank you. n/t

[skooooo]

2. partial birth abortion

[ColbertWatcher]

10. Speaking of the religious-right...

...they have a whole new language for their attack on science:

"theory" as insubstantial

"teach the controversy" as educational populism

Oh, and that reminds me "fair and balances" as fair and balanced.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

46. I prefer calling those sociopaths, the religious-wrong.

:hi:

[ColbertWatcher]

73. I sit corrected! n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. The ever wonderful (sarcasm), War on Terror. How can you have a war on a tactic?

[ColbertWatcher]

6. It has two negative words and that's what the GOP wants: negativity. n/t

[Lasher]

31. Later ammended to 'global war on terror'

See, that's in case you're so silly as to think Iraq had nothing to do with 911. Get it? Bin Laden, Saddam, same-o same-o.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

45. Which of course gives carte blanche to invade any country that has any of those darn

terra-ists.....

[Lasher]

47. Exactly right.

Don't name any specific country or entity. War against no one. War against everyone.

[ColbertWatcher]

57. War, now and forever. n/t

[zanne]

4. Okay

escalation=surge

liberal=socialist

tax cut=tax reform

soldiers=insurgents

prisoners=detainees

pollution=Clean Air Act

draft=stop loss

Those are a few off the top of my head. I know there are many more.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Thank you, your list alone is proof of the Orwellian nature of the GOP. n/t

[Lasher]

33. Freedom fighters = terrorists

Saint Ronnie called them freedom fighters when they were blowing up innocent civillians he didn't like.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

8. I love me some good "homeland"

:puke:

[ColbertWatcher]

11. I think that has to be the best (worst) n/t

[proud patriot]

42. yep that one particularly sticks in my craw

x(

[GreenPartyVoter]

80. I have hated that one since day one

[Dulcinea]

9. Can we count Washington National Airport?

I refuse to call it Reagan.

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Me neither. n/t

[Lasher]

37. Same here.

We should rename it Clinton National Airport when we get a filibuster proof Senate next year. After all, it had already been named for one president when they renamed it after Saint Ronnie.

Edit: And while we're at it, let's rename those new monster aircraft carriers after people who weren't jackasses.

[cyclezealot]

50. So far, We do all we can to fly out of Dulles.

Did not I read, they re-named the Florida Turnpike the Reagan Tollway. Come to think of it, thats not a bad measure. When ever one takes Toll ways, you should realize you are being screwed.

[Lasher]

64. Ronald Reagan Legacy Project (RRLP)

The mission of the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project (RRLP), according to the organization's web site, is "to honor and memorialize the historic achievements of President Ronald Reagan. It aims to do so by naming at least one notable public landmark in each state and all 3067 counties after the 40th president.... In recognition of President Reagan's leadership role in the defeat of communism, the Project also seeks to honor his memory in formerly communist countries."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ronald_Reagan_Legacy_Project

RRLP is funded by Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, which is an organization that does everything it can to support the wealthy elite's desire to pay no taxes. In their efforts to make Saint Ronnie of Reagan out to be something other than the loser he really was, they hope to make it easier to perpetuate his failed policies, particularly the trickle-down theory, which was repackaged by Reagan as supply-side economics.

The Real Reagan Legacy

[cyclezealot]

67. Appreciate the post. Grover Norquist. No surprise there

Poor Grover. Looks like Reagan won't make it to Mt. Rushmore. Sorry Grover. What ever happened to having Reagan replacing FDR on the Dime.? Guess it went the way of Newt Gingrich.

[ColbertWatcher]

70. Re: Reagan on dime...

...Last I heard, they're waiting for Nancy to die before they push again.

They've been using the state quarters to train all their Christers how to make coins.

[ColbertWatcher]

74. Doesn't surprise me one bit that it's a "project"...

...there is one thing named after Reagan that I find hilarious:

"For seven years the Historical Society of North Dakota has fought to preserve that state's last Minuteman missile launch complex, hoping to open it as a Cold War tourist attraction."

(...)

"Considering the curious sequence of events that led to the creation of the Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Missile Silo Historic Site, we can perhaps state here with some certainty that THE APPARENT SECRET TO GETTING MONEY FOR A TOURIST ATTRACTION is to name it after Ronald Reagan or a Reagan-era policy." (Emphasis added)

Roadside America

Enjoy.

[Virginia Dare]

77. Yep. Bob Barr the "Libertarian" crammed that up our asses..

and forced the taxpayers of Virginia to pay close to $500,000 to make new signs for all the Metro stations...:mad:

[ColbertWatcher]

79. Bob Barr did that!?

Mr. "Small Government Libertarian" Barr?

I am sure his Party will reward him for being a good boy.

[boobooday]

13. An oldie but goodie: The War on Drugs

War against an inanimate, inert object.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. Related: War on Poverty. n/t

[boobooday]

20. Which curiously both represent the same thing: war on poor people. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

21. Yup, which is why it has to be "relabeled." n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

63. "War on Poverty", suggested by John F. Kennedy,

was mentioned in Lyndon Johnson's first State of the Union speech in 1964 and was the main focus of his Great Society program.

[Mike Nelson]

15. "Liberal Media"

if it existed, it died in the mid-1970s

[ColbertWatcher]

17. How could I forget THAT one!?

It seems the most obvious ones are the ones we forget about.

This is the very reason why I posted this as a thread: so everyone can help me remember.

Thank you.

[Mike Nelson]

16. "Compassionate Conservative"

what were they before, then?

[Swede]

18. Enhanced interrogation techniques.

It used to be called torture.

[Mike Nelson]

19. "Practicing Homosexual"

until they get it right?

[ColbertWatcher]

23. Or, until they Accept Jesus, etc. n/t

[Mike Nelson]

22. "Peace with Honor"

in other words, more War

[lonestarnot]

24. unitary executive

[Mike Nelson]

25. "Fair and Balanced"

they like to call things the opposite

[Mike Nelson]

26. "Illegal Alien"

however, liberals beat it (a rarity) with "Undocumented Worker"

[ColbertWatcher]

28. You're on a roll, thank you. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

27. Obedience=Patriotism...

...specifically Obedience to the GOP=love of country.

[AlCzervik]

29. "Death Tax".

[kath]

30. Collateral damage

= killing civilians

[alfredo]

32. Transfer tubes= body bags. Winning = losing

[ElsewheresDaughter]

34. "enhanced" anything Like "enhanced interagation" and "enhanced weapons"

[Lasher]

35. Redeployment = cut and run.

In the spring of 1983, President Reagan and his team of hawkish advisors decided to intervene in Lebanon's civil war on behalf of Christian President Amin Gemayel. On March 24, the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit was dispatched to Lebanon where Moslem and Christian factions were fighting.

On April 28, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a van loaded with 2,000 pounds of explosives into the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Sixty-three people died, including seventeen Americans.

Four months later (September 6, 1983), two U.S. Marines were killed by rocket and mortar fire. At an October 19 press conference, Reagan was asked about the safety of the Marines in Beirut to which he replied, "We're looking at everything that can be done to try and make their position safer. We're not sitting idly by."

A few days later (October 23), another suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives into the headquarters building of the First Battalion, 8th Marines, located at the Beirut airport. The resulting explosion killed 241 American servicemen.

Three months later, the Reagan administration removed American troops from Beirut and put them aboard offshore ships. Reagan described the retreat as taking "decisive new steps." Explained spokesman Larry Speakes, "We don't consider this a withdrawal but more of a redeployment."

http://www.geocities.com/thereaganyears/foreignpolicy.h...

[ColbertWatcher]

36. Well done. Thank you. n/t

[Lasher]

38. Go along with the president's policies = support the troops.

That is one of the most sinister. Ever notice how many three word slogans the wingnuts repeat over and over? People who fall for that crap must have real short attention spans.

Fair and reasoned debate = Git-R-done!

[Lasher]

39. Unprovoked = preemptive

Big government = social programs. Despite years of effort they've not quite managed to make that one stick. Most people equate big government to overall government spending. Republicans want you to think 'big government' is spending only on things they don't like. Wars of aggression don't count.

[ColbertWatcher]

44. These are good. Thank you. n/t

[tabasco]

40. George Washington was not great enough so they had to rename the airport

in Washington after Saint Ronald, the criminal liar.

[DFW]

41. In Langley, VA

There is a George Bush Center for Intelligence, which is sort of like
a John Wayne Center for Pacifism. In Dallas, we have a "President George
Bush" highway, just so drivers are not confused by the "Idiot George Bush"
highway, which must run alongside a defunct sewage treatment plant, or something.

As one who grew up near National Airport in D.C. as a kid, I also refuse to call it
anything but National Airport. If we have to include the name of a president in the
name, I use the one first assigned to it: Washington.

[ColbertWatcher]

43. Yup.

Over at the wiki, we have a whole list of things that have been named after him here

Enjoy, and if you can think of anything else, go ahead and add it in.

[Virginia Dare]

78. Now Little Lord Pretzeldunce wants a "peace institute"...

peace and intelligence, two things George Bush will never be associated with.

[kath]

48. How could we forget -- "escalation" now equals "surge"

see Tom Paxton's great song on this:
http://www.tompaxton.com/audio/george_w_told_the_nation.mp3

[xfundy]

49. FREEDOM FRIES!

sane people = libruls

[Wizard777]

51. The Nazi Party. It's now called the GOP. That was the first thing they renamed.

[ColbertWatcher]

52. LOL! Mike Fuckabee, the smiling racist, salutes you!

[readmoreoften]

53. From Questioning to Extraordinary Rendition

We'd like to have a few EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONS with you.

[Cleita]

54. Actually Thom Hartmann seems to address it in his book called

"Cracking the Code". http://www.thomhartmann.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=193&Itemid=79

I haven't read it yet because buying books has become a luxury for me. I'm hoping my library gets it soon so I can borrow it.

[ColbertWatcher]

59. I'll be looking out for it as well, but...

...certainly you have heard the GOP's linguistic creations yourself, no?

Do you not have any to add that you've heard?

[Skittles]

55. "overtly non-white" = Obama

oh alright I just read that one yesterday but it has stuck with me :o

[ColbertWatcher]

56. Wow, that has stupidity to spare...

...wow, just wow.

[Skittles]

58. here ya go

yup - it made my jaw drop :o

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101471.html?nav=rss_politics

[ColbertWatcher]

60. I thought I could expect better form the WashingtonPost...

but the title they picked, Hate Groups' Newest Target, shows maybe I'm expecting too much.

Then, one of the asses, who I expect nothing from, farts out a classic GOPism:

"Our side does better when the public is being pressured, when gas prices are high, when housing is bad, when a black man might be president,"

They are equating manipulated gas prices (by their Party no less) and a manipulated housing market (again by their Party) as being the same as an African-American candidate, who has earned the nomination of his party after every single state completed their primary/caucus. Hate really knows no bounds.

And then, the GOP-mindset resorts to their fall-back position of victims:

"What you try not to think about is that maybe if Obama wins, it will create a very demoralizing effect," Doggett said. "Maybe people see him in office, and it's like: 'That's it. It's just too late. Look at what's happened now. We've endured all these defeats, and we've still got a multicultural society.' And then there's just no future for our viewpoint."

What a mess that world must be.

[Skittles]

61. YOU KNOW IT

sometimes I find their fear amusing until I realize it's REAL - then I'm like WTF!!!!!!!! :o

[ColbertWatcher]

62. Judges have become "activist" judges. n/t

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

65. The Democrat Party

They don't care how ignorant they sound, they'll look at you blankly and claim they don't know what you are talking about when you challenge them on it. Then they'll say, "They aren't very Democratic to me!".

[ColbertWatcher]

68. Agreed. It's as though they believe...

...the entire language was designed to make them look stupid!

[Lasher]

66. Trickle-down theory = supply-side economics

Same thing, different label. After Junior's results these past 7 years and 5 months, they'll have to repackage it again.

[ColbertWatcher]

69. I think they did: ownership society. n/t

[rucky]

71. Healthy Forests and Clear Skies

allowed for clear-cutting and froze EPA enforcement for the Clean Air Act. At least they're predictably the opposite of how they're labeled.

[ColbertWatcher]

72. Another opposite law: No Child Left Behind. n/t

[kiva]

75. On a stictly geographical note:

Camp Shangri-La = Camp David (for Eisenhower's grandson)

Houston Intercontinental Airport = George Bush Intercontinental Airport/Houston

Washington National Airport = Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport (for a nauseatingly long list of things named after Reagan, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_honors_named_for_Ronald_Reagan)

Boulder Dam = Hoover Dam (there's some question about this one, but deserves to be on the list)

It seems as though the re-re-naming of Cape Kennedy/Cape Canaveral was at the request of local Florida residents, so politics may or may not have played a role.

[ColbertWatcher]

76. Didn't some Arab country put Pappy Bush's likeness on their floor? n/t

[Lasher]

81. That was the al-Rashid hotel in Baghdad

One of the first things US troops did when they occupied Baghdad was to dig up the intricate tile mosaic of Poppy that was used for years as an insult.

[ColbertWatcher]

82. Maybe that's not the one I'm thinking of...

...because I recall Pappy was at the opening of some building that had a portrait of him somewhere.

I thought it was on the floor, but I could be mistaken.

I just distinctly remember seeing a picture of him proudly posing with it.

[Lasher]

83. Nothing in my state, yay!

Rep. Jim Moran proposed naming the Bureau of the Debt building, 799 9th Street, NW Washington, DC, for Reagan during House consideration of a bill to rename Washington National Airport.

:rofl:



http://www.lafn.org/politics/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart.html#DownloadChart

[Iris]

84. Not sure if this is GOP or just plain dumb - "Caucasian Terrorists"

Yes. That's what Charles Gibson was calling Europeans who have been recruited to be terrorists. As if Arabs, Indians and Saudis are not caucasian.

[ColbertWatcher]

85. I haven't heard that one...

...interesting...

[dajoki]

86. Fight them there...

so we don't have to fight them here

Iraq is the central front in the war on terror

artificial timetables

spreading freedom

cut and run

stay the course

personal accounts

pro life