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The Deficit Chicken Hawk
Founding Ideals ^ | 04/05/2012 | Aaron Gee & Steve Graff

Posted on 04/05/2012 3:47:16 PM PDT by agee

Deficit Hawk: a slang term used for politicians that place great emphasis on keeping the federal budget under control. Liberals only use this term for politicians that want to raise taxes.

Deficit Chicken Hawk: a slang term used for politicians that claim to place great emphasis on keeping the federal budget under control but when faced with making real cuts in government spending always back down. Liberals only use this term to describe anyone who won’t raise taxes.

President Obama displays a special kind of shallow, transparent, political opportunism when recently talking about deficits to the writers for financial websites. He hearkens back to the days when he drove a 500 dollar car and was worried about paying the bills at the end of the month. This supposedly makes him more “in touch” with the American people. It’s a good thing he has those memories to talk about, because he certainly can’t run on his actual accomplishments while in government. President Obama is the head of a one hundred and six thousand dollar a second spending machine and any claims that he cares about debt are laughable (at


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: debt; deficit; failure; obama

1 posted on 04/05/2012 3:47:25 PM PDT by agee
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To: agee

That’s not what chicken hawk means. Broken pun.


2 posted on 04/05/2012 3:54:43 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane

It’s not a pun. The term has been used by both liberal and conservative press although with slightly different meanings. Thus the reason that the definition is at the top.

See examples below for use by both a well know conservative and liberal websites.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/247274/senator-feingold-deficit-chicken-hawk-cesar-conda

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/the-budget-deficit-chicken-hawks


3 posted on 04/05/2012 4:00:43 PM PDT by agee
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To: agee

Chicken Hawk is another homosexual slur, like teabagger. It means a grown man who chases boys.

Anderson Pooper gets a giggle when he says it.


4 posted on 04/05/2012 5:08:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
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To: a fool in paradise
Didn't use to mean that......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptXEVbBLPDM

5 posted on 04/05/2012 5:17:25 PM PDT by Osage Orange (The MSM is the most dangerous entity in the United States of America.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Let me put it this way ~ Conservatives never use the term. Leave it to the Liberals and Democrats to be experts in the ways of the "chicken hawk".

Find some other term.

6 posted on 04/05/2012 6:06:43 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: agee

Check out my blog for more Obama outrages: The Obama Clarifier http://obamaclarifier.blogspot.com/


7 posted on 04/05/2012 8:34:19 PM PDT by garjog
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