Far be it from me to challenge Rep. King's mendacity......
During a rant on the floor of the House about health care, King used the word "mendacity" -- meaning untruthfulness -- where he likely meant the opposite.
"As I deliberate and I listen to the gentleman from Tennessee, I have to make the point that when you challenge the mendacity of the leader or another member, there is an opportunity to rise to a point of order, there is an opportunity to make a motion to take the gentleman's words down, however many of the members are off on other endeavors and I would make the point that the leader and the speaker have established their integrity and their mendacity for years in this Congress and I don't believe it can be effectively challenged and those who do so actually cast aspersions on themselves by making wild accusations," King said.
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(H/T Fallenmonk.)
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ReplyDeleteLOL I'd be willing to bet he can't spell 'mendacity' much less know it's definition.
ReplyDeleteHe should be glad he's not my Congressman -- I have a tendency to send back offending letters/speeches from my representatives with corrections and a grade and I've been known to forward them to the press.
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ReplyDeleteKay... I write my member of Congress fairly frequently, but I grade for content more than for grammar. (My congressman is John Culberson, a close political relative of Tom DeLay.) Still, that might be fun... I'll try copy-editing his reply next time.
ReplyDeleteHave fun!
ReplyDeleteContent is good -- I grade on grammar and content (I was an English & Spanish major)I never got a never get a response from Ralph -- the Congressman we had for 20 years and if I had, he would probably blame it on his admin asst. for which I'd land on him for not hiring someone with a brain. When John Boccieri was my Congressman, I never had a problem -- I miss him already. I have a new congress critter now: Jim Renacci, a millionaire teabagger -- and I'm gonna be on him like white on rice -- AND I'm all ready to campaign for whoever (but I hope it's John) runs against him in 2 years. Today I just signed a petition on healthcare from Progress Ohio and will be interested to see what happens. I just signed up for his newsletter, He finally got his site up.