Code Words/Inartfully Worded–Law and order

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Inartfully worded

What idiot said what we meant?—Republican National Committee (Concerning a questionnaire that suggested the use of voter registration records for denying health care to Republicans in a racist "Democrat" Health Care plan); See also Great White Hope, The Truth!!, Michelle Bachmann, Tom Toles Ever So Sorry; "Voter ID, which is going to allow Gov. [Mitt] Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania: Done."—Pennsylvania House Republican leader Mike Turzai; Mitt Romney's 47% of moochers statement, "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives," was "not elegantly stated".

Independent

From a company that is owned and operated by lobbyists—Dick Armey

Independent contractor

Employee with no benefits who can't unionize.—FedEx

Individual responsibility

Collective irresponsibility

Inflation

Rising wages for hourly workers—Alan Greenspan

Infrastructure

Pork

Issues

Abortion, birth control, and anything Obama is for, even if it was originally a Republican idea! Gay rights, [ not so much] since it became the majority view in the US.

Jobs, jobs, jobs

1) Cuts, cuts, cuts. Cut taxes for the 1%; cut social programs; cut regulations. See Supply-Side Economics. 2) Restrictions on abortions. 3) Our jobs, as long as we can fool enough of the people enough of the time.

Judeo-Christian Values

Racism, willful ignorance, theocracy, slavery, intolerance, Crusades, genocide, rejoicing at the sufferings of the Damned in Hell; also anti-Semitism

Judicial activist

One who holds that Constitutional protections apply to the riff-raff (particularly Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, who should have been impeached) or even to terrorists

Judicial restraint

Hell, no, you can't—Sen. Mitch McConnell, Rep. John Boehner

Junk Science

Science, particularly evolutionary biology ("Darwinist religion") and the alarmist Global Warming hoax—Sen. James Inhofe

Just Say No

Thinking for yourself should be classified as an illegal drug. Wait, don't you get it? He's Black!!!

Keynesianism

The discredited theory of economist John Maynard Keynes that government spending is appropriate in a recession to stimulate the economy, when we know perfectly well that only tax cuts for the rich can ever stimulate the economy

Kill Grandma bill

OMG, he's Black! As opposed to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who recommends that we stop providing emergency medical services to those who cannot pay for them

Kinder, gentler nation

Practicing kinder, gentler rape—George H. W. Bush See Compassionate Conservatism

Law and order

Keeping the riff-raff in its place, and protecting America from the hoodie

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