Have you ever been "grin fucked"?
I have. And let me tell YOU, it's one of the most dissatisfying way of getting screwed there is.
I first heard the term from my husband, Old Abe. I used to totally crack up whenever he'd say it, because I understood on some visceral level exactly what he meant, and it was just such an appropriate term.
When one is "grin fucked", it's usually the result of being promised something, only to have the promiser later renege. However, "grin fucking" can also take the form of obstruction, kissing ass, and a variety of other unsavory tactics. Note that many of these are employed by members of our current Administration and their pals.
I would like to give you some examples of political "grin fucking".
U.S. Attorneys seeking a green light from the DOJ to investigate corrupt Republican lawmakers got "grin fucked" by Alberto Gonzalez:
Alberto Gonzales’s Justice Department put the brakes on criminal investigations targeting a number of Republican congressmen in an effort to insure that no indictments were returned before the November 2006 elections. How did that work? The U.S. attorneys need to get a go-ahead from Washington before seeking indictments of key figures such as members of Congress. As we learned previously in the case involving Randy "Duke" Cunningham and other California congressmen, Gonzales’s Justice Department held this process up inexplicably for many months—with an obvious intention of ensuring that the indictments did not adversely affect the Republicans’ election efforts.
National Archives and Records Administration is rebuffed when it attempts its oversight duties. They got "grin fucked" by Dick Cheney:
On the same day that the CIA announced it will soon release hundreds of pages of once-classified documents that detail some of the agency's most closely guarded — and controversial — secrets of old, it was revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney has been resisting even his own Executive Branch's efforts to find out what kind of secret material his office has been stashing away over the last four years.
Katrina victims, promised every effort possible to ensure their recovery from the destruction of their very lives, were "grin fucked" by FEMA and, since he's the one who made the promise, Mr. Bush himself:
Patricia Johnson and her godson are homeless again, forced out of the hotel they've lived in since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, because the government will no longer foot the bill.
And so Johnson, 56, and her 42-year-old godson, Dwayne Johnson, left the Jack London Inn on Monday, their belongings in a black garbage bag, unsure where they'd spend the night.
As the day wore on, they held out hope that relatives in Oakland might take them in, if only for a little while, or that they'd be given bus tickets to take them south.
"They forced us out. To me it's just a political and financial game," said Johnson.
Our beautiful, honorable young men and women are fighting and dying in Iraq for a government that promises to take care of them when they're hurt and broken , but in reality they're getting "grin fucked" by the Pentagon:
Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.
Now homeowners are getting it from the mortgage companies who sold them a bag of goods (and trust me, I know....I know the business well). So are people with health insurance who end up broke anyways.
Sooner or later, we all get "grin fucked".