Introductory Note: Not all of the Actually Says below aren’t, in fact, verbatim. Some are. Others are offered for illustrative purposes. Also, a few Democrats have spine. Too many, way too many, don’t.
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• SHOULD SAY: Flynn lied.
• ACTUALLY SAY: Flynn misrepresented.
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• SHOULD SAY: My and my more patriotic colleagues’ radars are up and coming close to tracking impeachable offenses. If we gather enough evidence (probable cause), we’ll lay it all out for the public to see as we commence our push to impeach Trump.
• ACTUALLY SAY: Impeachment is off the table.
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• SHOULD SAY: Donald Trump is mentally unfit and unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President and I call upon the Vice President and a majority of the principal officers of the executive departments, the Cabinet Secretaries, to begin the procedure to remove Trump from office by and under the authority granted to them to do so under Article 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
• ACTUALLY SAY: I’m so looking foward to this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner!
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• SHOULD SAY: Billionaires make...
• ACTUALLY SAY: Billionaires earn...
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• SHOULD SAY: I’ll fight Trump and his bigoted, White Supremacist, misogynist, make-the-rich-richer, kowtow-to-Putin agenda tooth and nail, no matter what.
• ACTUALLY SAY: Let’s look for ways to work together. Kumbayah’s my favorite song.
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Now come up with a few of your own.