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Early Morning Open Thread: Satan Sandwich

by Anne Laurie|  August 5, 20115:16 am| 15 Comments

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(Jeff Danziger’s website)

I’ve added Satan sandwich to the Balloon Juice Lexicon:

Satan sandwich—Near the end of the Congressional debt-ceiling crisis of July/August 2011, Congressional Black Caucus chair Emanuel Cleaver announced via Twitter:

“This deal is a sugar-coated Satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see… This debt deal is antithetical to everything the great religions of the world teach, which is take care of the poor, aged, vulnerable.”

Presumably related to the proverbial shit sandwich, where ‘the more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat.’

Any other Notable Quotes, debt-related or otherwise, which need to be added to the Lexicon while the grudges links are still fresh?
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ETA: I took this post into ‘edit’ mode to fix a link, and now I owe Freddie an apology for hopscotching his post, but I’m afraid that futzing around any further will end with me breaking the whole blog… Sorry about that!

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  1. 1.

    Freddie deBoer

    August 5, 2011 at 5:12 am

    Whoops, didn’t mean to step on your post. Didn’t think anybody else would be posting so early.

  2. 2.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    August 5, 2011 at 5:22 am

    @Freddie deBoer:

    This early? I think it might be late for the EMOT.

    Man, you guys gotta pay more attention to what the others are doing…Get a Google group going, do set times for posts, call dibs for time-slots and topics….Just sayin’…

  3. 3.

    Keith G

    August 5, 2011 at 5:55 am

    Not a quote, just my newly minted phrase:

    Stockhobama Syndrome – When a vital and promising political leader gets viciously attacked early and often by his opposition so that the leader nearly stops fighting for the fundamental beliefs of his party and adopts key notions held by his attackers.

    Presence of this syndrome is often a marker for a shortened political career, but studies indicate it can be reversed with early intervention.

  4. 4.

    Ben Cisco

    August 5, 2011 at 6:46 am

    NeoConfederates – A person or group who supports the philosophies, tactics, and goals of the Tea Party, the Republican party, and/or conservatives in general circa 2008 onward. NeoConfederates yearn for a feudal society in which those not subscribing to their beliefs are systematically ignored, marginalized, castigated, demonized, and subjugated. The NeoConfederate society is dependent on 1)a ruling class in which all wealth and power is based; 2)an enabling class who, while completely supportive of all actions of the ruling class, and ethnically if not culturally similar to the ruling class, are statistically unlikely to become members of the ruling class themselves; and 3)a class known as “The Other,” whose only defining characteristic is undesirability in the eyes of the ruling and enabling classes.

  5. 5.

    harlana

    August 5, 2011 at 6:57 am

    I just wanna call it Supercommittee with a hard “ess” – Ssssoupah-committehh!

  6. 6.

    harlana

    August 5, 2011 at 7:03 am

    @Keith G: brilliant!

  7. 7.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    August 5, 2011 at 7:45 am

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    or we could just tough it out and scroll down a bit, think of it as part of michelle obama’s get active initiative for old folks.

    broccoli mandate? for the lexicon?

  8. 8.

    themanintheguyfawkesmask

    August 5, 2011 at 8:25 am

    I forget where I heard the joke, but here it is:

    A man walked up to me and said, life is like a shit sandwich – the more bread you got, the less shit you have to eat.

    And another man walked up to me and said life is like a pinball game – you don’t score points, you lose your balls.

    And another man walked up to me and said life is like a pinball sandwich on shitty bread. This made no sense to me at all.

  9. 9.

    Freddie deBoer

    August 5, 2011 at 9:00 am

    No apology necessary.

  10. 10.

    Tonybrown74

    August 5, 2011 at 10:04 am

    Presumably related to the proverbial shit sandwich, where ‘the more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat.’

    Or more accurately, the more bread you have, the less chance you have of tasting shit.

    The amount will still be the same.

  11. 11.

    Cat Lady

    August 5, 2011 at 10:05 am

    Emoprogs: lefty blog commenters with Daddy issues who exhibit mirror image signs of tea party Obama Derangement Syndrome identified by their inability to give credit where credit is due for progress made toward progressive policy goals because the policy wasn’t 100% accomplished and accompanied by tough guy smack talk. Threaten all the time to cut themselves primary Obama and run away from stay home for the next election.

  12. 12.

    WereBear

    August 5, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    My lexicon nomination (since the other one was eated) is:

    Platinum coins: when the plan is so crazy it just might work!

  13. 13.

    Brian

    August 5, 2011 at 1:05 pm

    By Satan’s sausage! – My favorite oath from Blackadder

  14. 14.

    Maude

    August 5, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    Do we have tickle a penguin?

  15. 15.

    Sasha

    August 5, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: This law states that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word “no”. It was coined by technology journalist Ian Betteridge who explained, “The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.” Although there are examples where the law does not hold true, in the case of broadcast news (especially of the 24-hour cable variety), the law can be considered ironclad.

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