It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any.
[From The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla - Dick Cavett Blog - NYTimes.com]
It does, however, seem to be a gift much prized by Republicans. Republicans have spent so much time perfecting code-worded spin they have, well, spun themselves off into an alternate universe, one surmises, a place with a language of its own. Which they are eminently fit to govern, come to that, and welcome to it. Just let them leave this one alone.
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