Does anyone else have a problem with the "Gang of Six" label?

[Skip_In_Boulder]

I personally don't like to think that we have "Gangs" running our country or deciding the future of the country. They're suppose to be statesman, or statespersons.

[readmoreoften]

1. Sounds accurate to me.

[Capitalocracy]

24. Yeah, at least they're being honest. nt

[DJ13]

2. It sounds like a government body within Communist China

[Cool Logic]

6. Or one of my favorite musical groups...

http://www.gangoffour.co.uk/

[Dept of Beer]

33. You know who the gang of four were?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_four

[PDJane]

3. Yes, I do.

It seems to me, however, from this vantage, that the government has been taken over by thugs.

[DURHAM D]

4. What I really like about the Gang of Six is the appropriate number of females in the gang.

:sarcasm:

[tibbiit]

5. Yes but no one cares what i think

I have a problem with gang of ....., homeland security and all the other terms that sound like the old soviet union or chairman mao. It even pisses me off but then all this shit pisses me off.
Im infuriated as hell.
tib

[notadmblnd]

7. When I hear it, I always think of Tim Conway

there was a movie he was in along with Harvey Korman and IIRC, they were a bumbling gang of bank robbers or something like that?

[Fumesucker]

15. The Apple Dumpling Gang..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072653/

[notadmblnd]

21. thanks!

[doublethink]

8. Appropriate Title Actually .....

:rofl:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. It strikes me just as a funny, tongue in cheek reference to old chinese politics.

[madamesilverspurs]

10. Personally, I prefer the "Joy of Six"...

...oh, wait.

Nevermind.


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[Skip_In_Boulder]

19. LOL

:toast:

[kenny blankenship]

11. They're just meatpuppets for the Gangs of New York.

If you think that our country is run by "statesmen" you may some have obsolete notions about how things work. Or at least a very inflated idea of the dignity of elective government.

They should all be wearing fishnet stockings or vinyl thigh highs.

[KittyWampus]

13. I saw the Meatpuppets live at the Limelight a million years ago.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

18. No, I got the point of how things work

On the day that John Kennedy was assassinated.

[KittyWampus]

12. Yes. I'm glad you brought it up. It's creepy. The NeoCons seem to emulate Communists enough

as it is without using that terminology.

[spanone]

14. sadly they are neither statesman, or statespersons.

[Stinky The Clown]

16. It is a trite, hackneyed political cliche

We've, just in the last few years, had the Gang of Fourteen and the Gang of Seven.

Kind of like _(insert scandal here)_gate.

To borrow from Dave, it is a Stoopit "Pundint" Trick.

[Warpy]

17. I preferred their original name, The Cat Food Commission

It suited them so much better.

[catabryna]

20. You do realize that a can of catfood

costs about the same as a can of ravioli?

Nutritional value? Who knows? B-)

[Warpy]

29. The catfood can be extended farther than the can of ravioli

You can get 2 meals out of the ravioli, 4 out of the catfood over rice.

Please don't ask me how I know.

[catabryna]

30. You can put the ravioli over angel hair pasta...

to stretch it out. Don't ask me how I know. ;-)

eta: Nutritional value is based on the assumption that you will not :puke:

[rbnyc]

22. Obama did promise more transparency. (nt)

[readmoreoften]

27. +1

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. Shouldn't it be "Gang of Seven" now that Obama has embraced it?

[readmoreoften]

28. +1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. It's just a takeoff on the Gang of Four, which was a group of four

Chinese officials who were controlling the Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution of the '60s and early '70s.

They probably used it because it's kind of catchy.

I also call my group of cats the Gang of Fur.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

26. I know the history of it

as I lived through those times. My issue is do we really want to be patterning ourselves after a Communist regime. Catchy or not.

[Igel]

34. We're not patterning ourselves after a Communist regime.

It's a tongue in cheek way of referring to them. Not all linguistic usage is serious.

[rbnyc]

32. I thought they were a British post-punk band from Leeds.

:evilgrin:

This is why I usually stay in The Lounge.

[mmonk]

31. Too late.

We actually have several.