Anybody else not like the phrase: "Culture of Corruption"? [View All]

[Wetzelbill]

It sounds too test group-ish to me. I always hate when politicians start using words and phrases that did well when people were polled on them or they worked well in test groups. It sounds so fake to me. I bristle when I read or here them. Like when Bush says "Ownership Society." It all weirds me out, like a bunch of cheap salesman think I'm dumb enough to fall for a word that tests well. "Culture of Corruption" is supposed to resonate with millions of people? I never hear regular people talk like that. I say just call a rat a rat, don't mince words and use phony phrase. Typical Washington Dem: "Oh, the Republicans are mired in a (drum roll) culture of corruption." Like I'm supposed to jump up and say: "Holy shit, maybe they really are!" I would rather hear somebody say:" The Republican Party is full of rats who would sell out the American people for a dollar." Call an SOB an SOB, hell, Paul Hackett did, I think other Dems should too.