Some political phrases you're tired of hearing

[YoungDemCA]

"Shared sacrifice," (re: austerity)

"Grown-ups in the room," (aka Serious People TM).

"Beltway wisdom,&quot oxymoron, anybody?)

"Entitlement reform" (calling bullshit on this).

Feel free to add to the list.

[Tx4obama]

1. Below are a few ...

Fiscal cliff
Sequester
Family values
Pro-life - which is actually 'anti-choice'
and Second Amendment Rights.

[TDale313]

2. Great lists.

Here are a few of mine:

Job Creators (often paired with Risk Takers)

Tax Relief

Balanced Approach (usually when talking about Shared Sacrifice)

[woo me with science]

3. "Hardworking Americans"

and the inability to reference the American dream without stressing "working hard" above all else.

There is, or should be, so much more to life than "working hard."

The phrase never bothered me before I recognized the relentless push by the oligarchy to extend working hours and cut benefits and leave. We are increasingly trained, propagandized, and forced by debt and circumstance to live our lives as rats in a wheel now, producing for their profit, at the expense of family, friends, and other pursuits...and it is celebrated as a virtue.

[Quantess]

7. The implication is that "you must not be working hard enough"

if the American Dream has fallen short in your life.

Edit to add that I completely agree with you. It's an insidious lie.

[woo me with science]

11. +1 Absolutely.

That is exactly the implication. Thank you.

[LeftInTX]

4. USA! USA!

Voter fraud
Reverse discrimination
Axis of Evil
"Four Americans died"
Makers and takers
Welfare queens
Food stamp president
Don't tax the job creators

[LeftishBrit]

5. Culture of dependency

Reform, as used by the current British government (welfare reform, NHS reform, etc.) Generally means cuts, privatization, or both!

Benefit trap

Compassionate conservatism

Tough love (when used for economic policy)

Basically, ANYTHING that implies that poverty = addiction to benefits and can be cured by cutting benefits!

Strivers versus skivers

Scroungers; workshy; etc. (meaning poor or disabled people)

Making tough decisions (generally meaning decisions that are not at all tough for the people who make them, but disastrously harsh on others)

'Labour overspending got us in this mess' or similar

[bonniebgood]

6. Sick, Sick, Sick I tell you to keep hearing the Dem and

repugs saying the repugs are obstructing everything to please their base, when actually
their base are the super rich paymasters.

[ashling]

8. Thanks for reminding me - NOT!

I know you're really sick of hearing this, so I'll just repeat it for you ...

[Mnemosyne]

9. Playing the blame game. Ugh. nt

[randome]

10. "The American people are..."

It's not bad as a descriptive phrase but it is way over-used.

[Earth_First]

12. A few:

"Keeping the powder dry"
"3-Dimensional Chess"
"Bi-partisan compromise"

Quit with the excuses and go for the KILL!

[HereSince1628]

15. I have a 'Jedi' Mind Meld with most of that but I think there may be a mistake

Isn't the phrase actually "by party, SANS compromise" ????

[liberal_at_heart]

13. I want to puke everytime I hear job creators

[Remmah2]

14. "NRA Talking Points"

As used as a defense by the master debaters who can't debate.

[Greybnk48]

16. "Kick the can down the road."

But I truly despise Social Security insurance, which I've paid in to for over 40 years, being referred to as an "entitlement" like it's a handout. I'm collecting my SS insurance starting next Fall, I earned it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. "Nanny Staters"

Typically uttered by libertarians who have the greatest amount of opposition and outrage to even the slightest bit of government involvement or regulation in anything.

[pampango]

18. "Right-to-work", 'the greatest country on earth', 'right-of-center country'

'republicans have a mandate in the House', 'amnesty'.

[Ron Obvious]

19. The Free Enterprise System

"The Free Enterprise System", since "Capitalism" appears not to be polling too well recently for reasons I can't fathom.

[OGKush]

20. Good list so far!

Transparency - no one in government wants to be transparent.

Fair share - no one can say what this really means and gives people the ability to make up their own belief about it.

Middle class - politicians use this work to make people think that the majority is on their side.

Experts say - the only experts they are talking about are the ones who agree with them.

[bluethruandthru]

21. Liberal Media - It's not and hasn't been for a long, long time.

"Bengazi" - (implying it's on par with 911)...republicans conveniently forgetting the 7 embassies and consulates attacked under Dubya.

[Johonny]

22. "bipartisan" compromise

why is the concept of attempting to include totally irrational views considered some grand statesmanship. People toss around bipartisan like it is some holy grail when usually ends in stupid programs like sequestration. Wow thank god that was a bipartisan effort. Nothing wrong with compromising and negotiating in politics but when they stick the word bipartisan on an idea it means the total opposite of a meeting of the minds on a good proposal and instead means an idea so bad no party wants credit for it.

[Initech]

23. The whole lot of em.

But a few:

"Fiscal Cliff"
"Job Creators"
"Makers vs takers"
"Liberal media"
"Shared Sacrifice"

[CBHagman]

24. The phrase "work with us" when uttered by anyone in the GOP.

Translation: "We'll only agree to your granting us our wish list."

The phrase "raise taxes on the American people" when uttered by any Republican.

Translation: Taxes for those within the top 2 percent of income will pay somewhat more.

[kentuck]

25. At the end of the day...

We have to meet in the middle and stop kicking the can down the road. The American people want us to....

[Coolest Ranger]

26. Both sides do it

Both parties are to blame.

[Arctic Dave]

27. "God bless America". Do we really need it to be said after every fricking speech.

"In harms way". When the politicians are the douches who put them there.

"People who want to take away our freedoms". Washington has done that more then anybody on this planet.