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Thursday, January 04, 2007

People who are civil don't insult each other needlessly

What Digby says.
I hate to step on all the good feelings of brotherly and sisterly love we all feel today, but when I hear the new Minority Leader John Boehner call us the "Democrat party" in the same speech in which he is calling for civility, I can't help but wonder whether he knows what that means.

You see, it actually isn't very civil at all to change the name of someone's else's political party against their will. In fact, it's universally considered rude and cretinous not to call people by the names and designations by which they wish to be called.
Indeed. Every time one of these GOP leaders deliberately drops the "ic" from the name "Democratic Party," he or she is deliberately engaging in a small but important act of disrespect. It's become so common that you often see it in letters to the editor, and many newspapers don't even seem aware of the insult.

If we're going to have a "Democrat Party" how about a "Republic Party"?

It would be a small but important thing if Republicans decided to stop it with the deliberate dropping of the "ic." It would be downright civil of them.

But don't hold your breath.

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