Tumultous events add to our vocabulary. The recent tempest in a teacup caused by the nomination and withdrawal of Harriet Miers appears to have enriched the English language: (italics mine)
"A contributor to The Reform Club, a right-leaning blog, wrote that to get "borked" was "to be unscrupulously torpedoed by an opponent," while to get "miered" was to be "unscrupulously torpedoed by an ally."
And to those, who voted for Bush – Cheney in 2004, I urge that you add a third one:
To get "bushed" : torpedoed by your own unscrupulous vote.
Accidental Blogger 
2 responses to “Add These To Your Lexicon”
Inventing clever euphemisms to counter fundamentalist propaganda, while amusing, may not advance the rationalist/liberal cause. How about generating an attack based on first principles, that is, to the effect that ‘borking’ is an appropriate strategy to get rid of unsavory individuals who seek to dominate national public life and policy? People who voted ‘bush’ may have done so because they felt they were doing the right thing. To believe that they abandoned their scruples by voting ‘bush’, you’d have to posit that the majority of the public is corrupt (not impossible, but undesirable to adopt this as a default position). In either event, an easy-to-understand case indicating that ‘borking’ is a desirable and appropriate procedure and ‘bushing’ is not will be helpful.
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Those who voted for Bush are probably “not” all unscrupulous. My choice of the word is meant to be provocative (but not wholly inaccurate) by using the same jargon found in the definitions (not mine) of “borked” and “miered”. It may be more accurate to call the majority of them gullible, uninformed or just partisan. But there were a number of Bush voters, whose reasons and motives went beyond just those listed above. Holding on to power, further shaping of an already disastrous and misguided world policy, hopes for more tax cuts or war profiteering were indeed the “unscrupulous” motives of many Bush voters. The margin of victory for Bush over Kerry in 2004 was razor thin. I have no doubt in my mind that the “unscrupulous” votes had a significant role in deciding the last election and the fate of the country.
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