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NL888 Posted 14 years ago
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Does "blowout" mean "an easy victory" here?
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This brings to mind the psychological defense mechanism called projection, which causes a person to attribute, or project, unseemly feelings and ideas to someone else. The truth is that as the Wall Street Journal editorialized today, “Mr. Obama has taken drought relief as a hostage in order to pass another trillion-dollar farm and food-stamp blowout” – aka the Farm Bill.
This brings to mind the psychological defense mechanism called projection, which causes a person to attribute, or project, unseemly feelings and ideas to someone else. The truth is that as the Wall Street Journal editorialized today, “Mr. Obama has taken drought relief as a hostage in order to pass another trillion-dollar farm and food-stamp blowout” – aka the Farm Bill.
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I would say that 'blowout' means 'a complete waste of taxpayers' money' in this context, but you may get various opinions on this. CJ
- I would say that 'blowout' means 'a complete waste of taxpayers' money' in this context, but you may get various opinions on this.
- CJ
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I would say that 'blowout' means 'a complete waste of taxpayers' money' in this context, but you may get various opinions on this.
CJ
CJ
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No. You are seeing egregious journalese. That "blowout" is probably "big, expensive party", but that doesn't really fit, either, because the journalist just wants to sound hip and doesn't care about anything else.
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