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