"KATEGATE"

[wakemewhenitsover]

We need to name this shame, like Frank Luntz would.

[knowbody0]

1. i am kate, and i would be honored

[wakemewhenitsover]

6. I love the name Kate, but something catchy will catch on, don't you think?

And the Repubs know all too well the power of a catchy name or phrase, like (ugh) "flip-flop"; something people like to say, preferably with internal rhyme or alliteration ("compassionate conservative").

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Katrinagate

The term is already in play.

There are likely to be other catchphrases, too, like "Who drowned New Orleans?"

--p!

[maine_raptor]

3. KateGate..............yea

Short, sharp, and catchy. :thumbsup:

Now lets change "Blame Game" to "Shame Game"!!!

[wakemewhenitsover]

7. Right on!

[noiretextatique]

4. it has a name: "benign neglect"

it was coined several years ago and its practice has been refined since then.

[Cannikin]

5. Please. Not yet another GATE scandal. Cant we get original?

[wakemewhenitsover]

8. Ideas?

[goclark]

9. It is quick and easy to say more original

would require my mother washing my mouth out with soap.

[wakemewhenitsover]

10. Re. "Kategate": Words have power. Remember "Sore Loserman"?

Those signs were pre-printed in 2000.

Kategate wouldn't have happened without Republican manipulation of language in 2000 and 2004.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Something I'm wondering

why does every thing like this have to have the word "gate" at the end? Now I understand Watergate cause that's the name of the hotel. But goodness. This isn't Bush breaking into a hotel so why "gate"? Just a personal thing but I think it's annoying. Maybe it's just me. :shrug:

[wakemewhenitsover]

14. It's just shorthand. Meaning has become symbolic of any scandal.

[DS1]

12. Oh God, please no. No more fucking 'gates'

it instantly invalidates the entire thing when people start slinging around gate names. It's also amateur hackery to just slap a -gate on the end of the word and think you're clever.

[maine_raptor]

13. amateur hackery .............perfect description of MSM

[wellstone_democrat]

15. Murder

Why not call it what it is. Right now, my wife, the real W_D is helping out victims of *attempted murder* at the local shelter. That's what I call it and continue to call it. Those people were murdered in the gulf last week and there is no pretty way to say it.

Mr. W_D

[AgadorSparticus]

16. no more gates. this should be called the KATRINA GENOCIDE. nt

[Cleita]

17. Mad Max Domegate. That's where the worst of the suffering

happened because of the authorities effing up, not because of the hurricane.

[wakemewhenitsover]

18. Kategate simply provides a shorthand.

[leftchick]

19. nice Rhyme but

The usual nickname from katrina is Kat. KatGate??

[wakemewhenitsover]

20. How about : "K8G8"?