"Thrown under the bus" = most over-used term ever

[27inCali]

fucking ever! It's like a shortcut to thinking.

look, if people disagree with you, you are not under a bus, you are being disagreed with. If you are grossly out-numbered, you are not being bullied, you're just out-numbered.

can we get over playing the victim card every five minutes? -like it doesn't reinforce every nasty stereotype of Liberals that the RW tries to put out there?

[Bluebear]

1. 'can we get over playing the victim card every five minutes' - as arrogant as Gibbs. nt

[izquierdista]

2. What--EVER!!

[flvegan]

3. Now "thrown under the bus" has been thrown under the bus.

When will the madness end??

[Bluebear]

"Get over playing the victim!!!!"

Every five minutes!!!!!

[virgogal]

7. Good one !

[Electric Monk]

9. Can a meme be thrown under a bus while simultaneously jumping a shark?

Let's try

[Individualist]

4. Unrec for arrogance and condescension.

[Donnachaidh]

11. +1 unrec. n/t

[30rock]

5. I don't know why some people hate the idiom so much

If you were arguing that the term is misused, I would understand. But you claim it's "overused," as if there's a limit to the number of times one could use a term or phrase.

[City Lights]

6. Your concern is noted. nt

[jobycom]

8. I don't know, "playing the victim card" is pretty close. nt

[tularetom]

10. That phrase has jumped the shark

Not that I'm the cliche police or anything.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Then how come it's so crowded under here I have asphalt under my fingernails?

[backwoodsbob]

13. you're right..we should go back to the classics

like...kicked in the nuts

[asdjrocky]

14. Your bus is here.

[LostinVA]

15. Yet another round of "Poutrage Bingo"!

Woo hoo!

[Warren Stupidity]

17. flypaper poutrage bingo

by those desperately hoping for a REAL BIG PURGE

[LostinVA]

19. You said it, brother!

I said that to someone earlier.

[Bluebear]

18. I call dibs on pony and whining!

[LostinVA]

20. I already got President Palin, just an FYI

eom

[Bluebear]

24. all these thread recs!

[LostinVA]

26. lol

[lpbk2713]

16. Yeah ... we really need to think outside the box.

BWAHAHAHA

[Joe Fields]

21. "At the end of the day..."

[Phentex]

22. I can't remember how long it's been but...

someone on DU mentioned this phrase in a similar thread. From then on, I heard this phrase EVERYWHERE! On the radio, on nearly every tv show, just frickin' everywhere!

[EFerrari]

28. At the end of the day, the bottom line is, you're with us or against us.

Memories.

[anigbrowl]

23. It's the left's version of 'policies rammed down our throats'

Those who dislike Obama picked up on it during the primaries (from Jeremiah Wright, if I recall) and have been using it ever since. This is not to say that its use is limited to Obama's primary opponents, it has caught on with others in the meantime.

I don't care for this victimology either, no matter what part of the political spectrum it comes from. Ultimately, it's a loser strategy which marks the complainer as a failure - whether it's the GOP on economic policies or a constituency on the left not getting what it had hoped for.

Political promises have no value, that's why they are broken so often. A promise is not a contract. The way to get results as a political activist is to hold out for a commit that will have to be defended. If you don't get a specific policy that a candidate sticks to even after being attacked by the opposition, then you got nothing. The best way to get such a policy commitment is to give the candidate a way to sell it to the electorate as a net gain for the country in general. Moral arguments and the like are generally only as good as the popularity of the assumptions they rest on.

So a policy of 'Do X because it's the right thing to do' is more likely to fail - if we haven't done X yet, it's quite possible that a large part, perhaps even a majority, does not actually believe in X. If that is the case then you're stuck, because making a good argument requires agreement about the underlying facts. It's more effictive to focus on 'why X will make us all better off' even if that is not too important to you as an advocate.

[Umbral]

25. If the shoe fits... nt

[EstimatedProphet]

27. Nah - "Truth To Power" takes that award