political blend du jour: Obamneycare

[Ben Zimmer]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56773.html
In a calculated attack, Tim Pawlenty on Sunday took his most
aggressive swipe yet at GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney, using a
television interview to coin a cutting phrase that lumped together the
health care plans of the former Massachusetts governor and President
Obama.
“President Obama said that he designed Obamacare after Romneycare and
basically made it Obamneycare,” Pawlenty said on “Fox News Sunday,”
adding: “What I don’t understand is that they both continue to defend
it.”

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Ben Zimmer
http://benzimmer.com/

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