Comments on: GOPers Re-Name the Climate Bill Again: Now It’s a ‘Gas Tax’!

By: john

john — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:46:57 +0000

Let’s get it straight: Kit Bond has worked actively against Complete Streets and is willing to provide piles of public assistance to MoDOT to destroy neighborhoods and to build larger highways. It’s sickening but it is Mizzourah (Bond’s preferred pronunciation).

By: herenthere

herenthere — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:50:36 +0000

Bill Majer did say that Republicans are better with naming stuff…”winning the name game”

By: Elana Schor

Elana Schor — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:22:23 +0000

David: Interesting that you consider “GOPers” a type of left-wing shorthand; that’s news to me. It’s in use pretty regularly on a variety of media sites. (e.g. Newsweek: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/10/02/gopers-snicker-over-obama-s-loss.aspx; NY Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/10/21/2009-10-21_sc_gops_edwin_merwin_jr_and_jim_ulmer_apologize_for_antisemitic_remarks_in_defen.html)

By: ddartley

ddartley — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:16:12 +0000

Many of you may disagree, but I wonder if Streetblog should avoid left-wing/Democrat blogosphere terminology such as “GOP-ers.” Even though people like those on NYPD Rant might think that everyone who so much as glances at Streetsblog is a “lib,” I like to think of the livable streets movement as appealing to people of all political stripes, and I wonder if such terminology might put that at risk for this site.

By: jsd

jsd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:48:34 +0000

America fail.