As Steven Pinker points out, the above is a grammatical sentence. You have to posit that there?s a kind of buffalo called a Buffalo buffalo; what the sentence then asserts is that beast of this kind, if buffaloed ? that is, intimidated ? by fellow members of their species, go on to do the same to other co-speciesists. Buffalo buffalo that are buffaloed by Buffalo buffalo go on to buffalo Buffalo buffalo themselves.
Which brings me to the special election in NY-26. (OK, it only includes some of the Buffalo suburbs, but still.)
The obvious point is that Republicans, having run in 2010 largely by scaring seniors with tales of death panels, are now horsed on their own pet aardvark, or something.
The difference is that whereas Democrats were not, in fact, trying to impose death panels, Republicans really do want to dismantle Medicare ? and that?s the truth no matter how many times Very Serious People reach for their smelling salts when Democrats say that. And you would think that would make Medicare an even more potent weapon for the Dems than it was for the Rs (unless they go out of their way to ignore what the electorate is really concerned about.)
It?s now starting to look like a real possibility that we will have had three electoral waves in a row ? a Democratic sweep in 2006-2008, a Republican countersweep in 2010, and a countercountersweep in 2012 as voters realize that the GOP is the same as it always was, only more so.
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