It goes back further than that. (Reply #35)

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Mon Aug 29, 2016, 01:19 PM

HassleCat (6,409 posts)

35. It goes back further than that.

Cops have been saying it, and other things like it, to describe circumstances where they hassled or busted someone on vague suspicion or without probable cause. Molly Ivins probably picked it up from them, and she used it as far back as the mid 1990s.

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38 replies	Author	Time	Post
Republicans are already Plotting how to Ruin Hillary's Presidency [View all]	lastlib	Aug 2016	OP
The House of Representatives is the problem.	HassleCat	Aug 2016	#1
My fear is that they will impeach her immediately upon taking office. HOPEFULLY,	MoonRiver	Aug 2016	#2
For aggravaed mopery, as Molly Ivins would say.	HassleCat	Aug 2016	#3
She stole that from "Revenge of the Nerds"	DFW	Aug 2016	#24
"What's mopery?"	csziggy	Aug 2016	#27
It goes back further than that.	HassleCat	Aug 2016	#35
Revenge of the Nerds was 1984	DFW	Aug 2016	#36
If they do they will be laughingstocks. She would be the 2nd Clinton they'd tried and failed	pnwmom	Aug 2016	#11
well, they were fairly successful in distracting and derailing clinton's agenda during that time.	unblock	Aug 2016	#30
They would no more want Clinton out of office than they would want abortion banned.	Jim Lane	Aug 2016	#19
they will keep the impeachment threat in the air, then impeach as re-election time draws near.	unblock	Aug 2016	#32
Bill's popularity went UP when he got impeached. It can backfire. n/t	pnwmom	Aug 2016	#33
the right-wingers don't see it that way.	unblock	Aug 2016	#34
Can't just impeach...there has to be a crime committed WHILE in the office of President...	LowerManhattanite	Aug 2016	#23
it's been said before that "high crimes and misdemeanors" means whatever congress wants it to mean.	unblock	Aug 2016	#31
That is why we need to encourage those	awoke_in_2003	Aug 2016	#10
YEP	Cosmocat	Aug 2016	#37
Of course they are. They are so stuck on stupid that they don't know how to do anything else.	catbyte	Aug 2016	#4
There could be very few to ruin anything if the "Down Ticket" loses. Trump is absolutely destroying	Lint Head	Aug 2016	#5
They have been trying to knock her out for years. They could have better spent	Thinkingabout	Aug 2016	#6
I agree--this BS has to STOP. We need the HOUSE or else we are screwed.	Fast Walker 52	Aug 2016	#7
No Doubt	colsohlibgal	Aug 2016	#8
This can't be a surprise.	tazkcmo	Aug 2016	#9
Let's work on getting rid of Citizens United, appointing more moderate progressive SC judges.	YOHABLO	Aug 2016	#12
That's not going to happen before this November.	lastlib	Aug 2016	#15
What the hell...	jaxind	Aug 2016	#13
Obama was one hell of a campaigner,one hell of an organizer	INdemo	Aug 2016	#14
If we don't take the House too, very little will come out...	lastlib	Aug 2016	#16
wouldn't that be nice	INdemo	Aug 2016	#25
Win the House and State Legislatures to kill gerrymandering: Permanent Independent Commissions. nt	Bernardo de La Paz	Aug 2016	#17
I'm for that as much as any Dem....	lastlib	Aug 2016	#18
I'd love to see us take back the house, but BDLP is right in that we have a districting problem.	Warren DeMontague	Aug 2016	#21
The Democratic Party needs to follow the lead of the RedMap strategy	csziggy	Aug 2016	#28
Excellent point.	Warren DeMontague	Aug 2016	#38
well, what else are they gonna do?	Warren DeMontague	Aug 2016	#20
I'm not terribly enthusiastic about the next 4 for this reason.	LeftRant	Aug 2016	#22
Hillary Clinton's "baggage" is crap the Republicans have thrown at her for 25 years	csziggy	Aug 2016	#29
That would probably be the death of the republican party	liberal N proud	Aug 2016	#26

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