We Deserve a Break Today

Remember how the Republicans always used to accuse Clinton of co-opting their themes? Well, the Associated Press reports that the Republicans have been doing some co-opting of their own. They’ve been mentioning “the politics of personal destruction” so often lately that the phrase has become a cliche. According to the article, Clinton coined the phrase in 1994, but since the beginning of the 2000 campaign, Republicans have been using it seven times as often as Democrats.

To me this just seems to be more evidence of the lack of creativity in political discourse and the corporatization of just about everything. “Ahh will fahht for yew”; “I’m a uniter, not a divider”; “cross that bridge to the 21st century.” Hey, apparently it works. God, we’re a stupid species.