In a diary this morning, I proposed that we needed a new word (aka neologism) to honor Eric Cantor's statement in the wake of the tornado disaster in Joplin, Missouri, to this effect:
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that if Congress passes an emergency spending bill to help Missouri’s tornado victims, the extra money will have to be cut from somewhere else.
“If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental,” Mr. Cantor, Virginia Republican, told reporters at the Capitol. The term “pay-fors” is used by lawmakers to signal cuts or tax increases used to pay for new spending.
We now have two candidates for the new neologism. This may not be the final vote, but it may be, so don't skip it!
You can choose one or both of the following. If you like one or both, begin using it with abandon immediately. I've taken some liberties with reshaping the definitions; further honing of them into a frothy perfection may be the subject of later diaries.
Candidate 1: "ericant"
"ericant": v.i. and v.t., to cynically and callously try to take political advantage of a disaster while threatening not to help the victims unless one gets one's way on an extraneous matter. Noun form: one who ericants is an ericantor. One who ericants by emitting cantorum (see below) is an arrogant ericantor.
Candidate 2: "cantorum"
"cantorum": n., That snotty mixture of arrogance and ignorance that is sometimes the byproduct of Eric Cantor opening his mouth.
All will say about the development of these is that funluvn1 gets credit for one of them (and recommended my reworked definition.) The other one was divinely inspired. I won't say which is which.
Voting will begin immediately.