Wonkette is even funnier:

Michele Bachmann went on Fox News for the third time this week to “not talk about her gay husband” and instead give her predictably ludicrous viewpoint that nothing will happen to the U.S. credit rating in a default because “we have money to pay it” in whatever way she thinks one pays for good credit ratings without paying off debt. Then she lectures the president for having a lot of “choot-spa,” because Michele has only ever heard of Jews, she has never actually heard Jews. Oh wait, and did she get the meaning wrong, too?

“The president doesn’t want to have to be confronted with priorities in spending, because he has a lot of chutzpah.” We are not at all actual Yiddish experts, but Google search seems to suggest that “chutzpah” is not used to describe someone who has giant avoidance issues. Rather, it usually means the opposite in either its negative or positive connotations. Oh well, everything else about Michele and Marcus “tiny dancer” Bachmann live in Opposite Land too.

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This is what happens when you blindly memorize talking points from a piece of paper rather than understanding the issues are about.

In case I'm not the only one not fluent in borrowed Yiddish words: Chutzpah.

My favourite part:

"The cognate of chutzpah in Arabic, ḥaṣāfah (حصافة), does not mean "impudence" or "cheekiness" or anything similar, but rather "sound judgment."" (The idea of a fundie Christian teabag-candidate accusing socialist muslim califate Obama of "sound judgement" made me giggle)

Anything but more of this failed socialist bullshit please.

And just when I thought Sarah Palin was as bad it gets, here comes this fine example of american politics.

>> ^EMPIRE:

And just when I thought Sarah Palin was as bad it gets, here comes this fine example of american politics.

Palin is dumb and crazy. This one is plain crazy.

And this twit worked for the IRS without even a basic grasp of economics?

She seems to have the same Palin disease of not knowing what she's talking about and instead making shit up. This we don't need to raise the debt ceiling rhetoric is blatant political maneuvering without any serious thought to the long term consequences. They've just read a poll that says 69% of Americans don't want the ceiling raised, so they go on TV and tell us they oppose raising it.

You know that if the ceiling doesn't get raised and we default or stop paying our military, they'll be on TV saying how rotten the president is for not paying the bills. If there's a deal without budget cuts they'll moan we're spending ourselves to oblivion. If there are cuts, they'll complain about what all the federal layoffs do to the unemployment rate.

The fundamental problem is politicians who care more about winning than governing. I've had students who tell me "I don't really read," and I think these politicians are in the same mold. They go to fundraisers, they talk to their political advisers. Who has time to actually figure out what effect various policies will have? Mitch my-top-legislative-priority-is-winning-an-election-4-years-from-now McConnell was the old poster child of this camp, but Palin and Bachmann have supplanted him.

This is how someone who actually wants to solve problems sounds:
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Unhappy that negotiators remained at approximately $1.7 trillion in cuts, Cantor pressed again for a shorter deal or for negotiators to find their way to $2.5 trillion. The president, growing more agitated, argued that attendees were simply looking for ways to say no.

"Talk about arbitrary," he said of Cantor's figure, according to a Democratic attendee. "I am totally willing to do the hard stuff to get well above what you need and you won't do it because you can't put one penny of revenue on the table."

"At least Mitch McConnell, to his credit, was willing to work for a solution," the president added, acknowledging the proposal by the Senate Minority Leader to, essentially, give him the authority to lift the debt ceiling without passing commensurate cuts.

"I have reached the point where I say enough," Obama concluded, according to Reuters. "Would Ronald Reagan be sitting here? I've reached my limit. This may bring my presidency down, but I will not yield on this."

This is obviously a word that gets a lot more use in the US than the UK. I would have pronounced it exactly as she did, I've never heard it only seen in written down. How should it be said?

It's pronounced "hutz-pah"

>> ^robbersdog49:

This is obviously a word that gets a lot more use in the US than the UK. I would have pronounced it exactly as she did, I've never heard it only seen in written down. How should it be said?

While it's a pet peeve of mine when people use words they don't understand, it's also a great indicator of the mental rigor of the person you're talking to. If they use words without understanding them, they probably hold opinions without understanding them.

I've never seen Chutzpah spelled out before. Why would someone spell this out for her and not explain how it's pronounced?

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