porkulus

[Benjamin Zimmer]

"Porkulus" is now a common conservative epithet for the economic
stimulus plan favored by Obama and congressional Democrats. I'm not
sure if Rush Limbaugh coined it, but he's been using it on his radio
show since Jan. 23:

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http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_020209/content/Our_EIB_Week_in_Review___Support_the_President__But_Not_His_Policies_.guest.html
The Rush Limbaugh Show (transcript), Jan. 23, 2009
To top it off, this massive porkulus -- it's not a stimulus, it's a
porkulus -- this porkulus spending extravaganza has been flatly
rejected by the Office of Management and Budget and Wall Street.
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--Ben Zimmer

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