★ 205 Notes INTROducTION 1 Kevin Richert, “The Dark Art of Radiator-Capping,” Idaho Education News, March 26, 2013, http://www.idahoednews.org/the-edge -blog/the-dark-art-of-radiator-capping/. 2 A Way with Words, “Hog House,” http://www.waywordradio.org/hog _house_6/. 3 Jim O’Sullivan e-mail. 4 George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” https://www .mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm. 5 Julie Coleman, The Life of Slang (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 3. 6 Geoffrey Nunberg, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism Into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times–Reading, Body-Piercing, HollywoodLoving , Left-Wing Freak Show (New York: PublicAffairs 2006), 3. 7 Global Language Monitor, “Top Political Buzzwords Paint a Different Picture Than the Campaigns,” July 12, 2012, http://www.language monitor.com/obama/top-political-buzzwords-paint-a-different -picture-than-the-campaigns/. chaPTER 1. BEd-WETTERs, shERPas, squIshEs, aNd OThER PERsONaLITy TyPEs 1 Mark Leibovich, This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral—Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!—In America’s Gilded Capital (New York: Blue Rider Press, 2013), 232. 2 McConnell floor speech, June 25, 2013, http://beta.congress.gov /congressional-record/2013/06/25/senate-section/article/S5104-2. 3 Jake Tapper, “VP Biden Says Republicans Are ‘Going to Put Y’all Back in Chains,” ABCNews.com, August 14, 2012, http://abcnews .go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/vp-biden-says-republicans-are -going-to-put-yall-back-in-chains/. 206 ★ notes to Chapter 1 4 Jillian Rayfield, “GOP Rep: Libya Is Worse Than Watergate,” Salon .com, October 1, 2012, http://www.salon.com/2012/10/01/gop_rep _libya_is_worse_than_watergate_for_obama/. 5 Brian Montopoli, “Alan Grayson ‘Die Quickly’ Comment Prompts Uproar,” CBSNews.com, September 30, 2009, http://www.cbsnews .com/news/alan-grayson-die-quickly-comment-prompts-uproar/. 6 Susan F. Rafsky, “Representative Newt Gingrich: From Political Guerilla to Republican Folk Hero,” New York Times, June 15, 1988, http:// www.nytimes.com/1988/06/15/us/washington-talk-working-profile -representative-newt-gingrich-political-guerrilla.html?src=pm. 7 Ashley Parker and Jonathan Weisman, “Conservatives Take Turns Standing Up to the Speaker,” New York Times, September 19, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/us/politics/conservatives-take -turns-standing-up-to-boehner.html. 8 Wall Street Journal, “The Bedwetter Caucus,” August 16, 2012, http:// online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB100008723963904441847045775892 62998551978. 9 David Plouffe, “November Doesn’t Need to be a Nightmare,” Washington Post, January 24, 2010, http://articles.washingtonpost.com /2010-01-24/opinions/36818470_1_meaningful-health-insurance -reform-jobs-health-care. 10 Joe Nocera, “The Last Moderate,” New York Times, September 5, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/opinion/the-last-moder ate.html?src=tp. 11 WordCraft, November 11, 2004, http://wordcraft.infopop.cc /Archives/2004-11-Nov.htm. 12 R. J. Duke Short, Centennial Senator: True Stories of Strom Thurmond from the People Who Knew Him Best (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2009), 395. 13 Daniel Halper, “Love: Obama Played Cards during Osama Raid: ‘I Can’t Watch This Entire Thing,’ Obama Said,” Weekly Standard, August 14, 2013, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/love-obama -played-cards-during-osama-raid-i-can-t-watch-entire-thing-obama -said_748413.html. 14 Ashley Parker, “Starting the Day, and Ending It, at Romney’s Side,” [34.200.248.66] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 00:55 GMT) ★ 207 notes to Chapter 1 New York Times, April 6, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04 /07/us/politics/mitt-romneys-assistant-seldom-leaves-his-side .html. 15 Alex Roarty, “Meet the New Republican Flamethrowers,” National Journal, November 18, 2013: http://www.nationaljournal.com/maga zine/meet-the-new-republican-flamethrowers-20131118. 16 Transcript of The Diane Rehm Show, October 1, 2013, http://the dianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-10-01/federal-government-shuts -down/transcript. 17 See “Jon Stewart on Crossfire,” Crossfire, October 15, 2004, 7:24, posted by “Alex Felker,” January 16, 2006, http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE. 18 See “Bullshit Mountain,” Crossfire, October 15, 2004, 10:12, posted by “Alex Felker,” January 16, 2006, http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=UfCBurnHCh8. 19 Jennifer Steinhauer, “On the Sunday Morning Talk Shows, a Rather Familiar Cast of Characters,” New York Times, June 8, 2013, http:// www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/us/politics/on-sunday-talk-shows -a-familiar-cast-of-characters.html. 20 Paul Waldman, “If It’s Sunday, It’s John McCain,” American Prospect, March 19, 2012...