Quit Your Mollyjabbering, Jack-Ass
1/10/2007 - Washington DC - By Rob A. Jackson - After defining popular political terms such as “fuzzy” and “flip-flopper,” Republicans are rolling out a new term: Mollyjabber. This new political term is being used across the floor of the Senate to attack Congressmen opposed to social security reform or to haze newly elected Democrats. Former House Majority Leader John Bohner accused Maria Cantwell, Democrat, of “[being] a mollyjabber; halting reform and progress for American citizens.” Bohner's response was erected in reaction to Ms. Cantwell setting up a social security tax calculator on her official website.
Cantwell responded with a rational appeal to the American populous: “Calculations are not anti-American.”
Pat Robertson, television evangelist and longtime herd master for the Republican Party, countered Cantwell’s objection to Bohner: “Calculations attempt to interject an unholy alliance between science and the politics of religion. Damn those mollyjabbering Democrats!”
Even President Bush jumped on the buzzword bandwagon: “The only person who manipulated information about Iraq was Saddam Hussein, we are waging war on a tactic, and remember 9/11. Democrats need to quit their mollyjabbering and stop misleading American public from the real issues: We’re cleaning up baseball!”
Joseph Biden, senator from Delaware had this to say about the new word: “I just hope its common usage doesn’t cause the word to be assimilated into an American Heritage Dictionary, only to be forgotten about and used by elementary school kids twenty years from now as an adjective to describe Democrats.”
The origin of mollyjabber is unknown; so is the word's true meaning. Most Democrats believe the word was concocted by Republican mastermind Karl Rove. Contriving a new word to slash and burn Demos is not beyond Rove’s capabilities; he is credited with shattering the hopes of Democrats since 1982. Others speculate mollyjabber is a combination of the word molly, a reference to methamphetamine, and jabber, which describes what people do when under the influence of the drug. Yet others believe it is derived from jabberwocky, a fictitious character from Alice in Wonderland – or is it?
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