‘Battology’, a short word on Bachmann’s big new quit
by Dog Gone on May 29, 2013 · I couldn’t miss seeing the dictionary.com word of the day simultaneously with the news that Michele Bachmann, bat-s**t crazy tea party queen, is quitting congress in 2014 — with her usual lies and misrepresentations, of course.Not familiar with the word ‘battology’? To be fair, viewing Bachmann’s denial of how much of a squeaker her last campaign was, with some 90% of the money from outside Minnesota funding her campaign, not just from outside her district, and having outspent Jim Graves by 12 to 1 in order to win, a more apt word would be bat-s**t-crazy-ology for Michele Bachmann’s farewell-in-2014 speech, (or for that matter, ALL her public pronouncements). No more whinging on and on about Obamacare lies, or any of her other fear-mongering repetitive idiocy.
Just last week, she was running tv ads a year and a half early. That’s a pretty sudden turn-around, and one that clearly is significant because of either some new scandal about to break, or even more damaging developments yet to reach the media in her current debacle. That, and she’s already losing in the polls to Jim Graves, even before he formally announced his candidacy.
She doesn’t appear to have a new vine to leap to, swinging away like her that other popsie, Palin, when she quit. But quit IS the operative word, every bit as much as Palin is the Queen of Quit. And like Palin, Bachmann’s actual accomplishments are small, and mostly discrediting, not positive ones.
I can only hope that like the selection of Lyin’ Paul Ryan for the VP slot, that Bachmann has her eye on some new campaign, possibly a run against governor Mark Dayton in 2014, or even better, the witty Senator Al Franken. I can only hope; the entertainment value would be priceless.
Word of the Day
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
battology
\ buh-TOL-uh-jee \ , noun; 1. wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.Quotes:
They weren’t political or surrealist, they weren’t witty or comic. They were only the monotonous evidence of a civic battology. – George Friel, Mr Alfred M.A. , 1972 I kept volleying this along the walls of my skull, aspiring by battology to battle. – Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang , 1994
Origin: Battology entered English in the late 1500s from the Greek word battologia meaning “speaking stammeringly” from battos meaning “stammerer” and -logia meaning “one who speaks (in a certain manner).”
