Lately I've been noticing the peculiarly aptness of a common misspelling. I've come to believe that the misspelling itself is actually the perfect word to describe this Bush Administration.
So I want to share this word. Just one word.
Are you ready?
Disingenious.
That's right, disingen-I-ous, not disingen-U-ous.
My apologies if I'm not the first to propose this, but a diary search came up with 9 instances, each of which appeared to be unintentional. Either this is a a current joke and I'm not in on it yet, or it ought to be and I'm proposing it.
But think about it. Savor the qualities of "disingenious". Doesn't it have a delicious aroma of outsmarting yourself, of shooting yourself in the butt with a dirty trick?
Isn't it just the word for the self-righteous and superior disingenuousness of an administration that "disassembles" so casually? (For those of us lacking Dubya's Ivy League education, he has informed us that "disassemble" means "not tell the truth". For instance, not tell the truth about disassembling Iraq, not tell the truth about disassembling the New Deal, not tell the truth about disassembling the upward mobility that has epitomized post-War America, and so on. Disassemble.)
Isn't "disingenious" just the word that would come from Dubya's mouth, indeed almost certainly HAS come from Dubya's mouth?
Isn't "disingenious" just the word for an administration that has outsmarted the American people into a quagmire of a war, has outsmarted the professional economists into at least 3.2 million missing jobs, has outsmarted traditional Republican principles into saddling us with decades of new debt, and has turned intelligence on its head in every conceivable sense?
Isn't "disingenious" the perfect word for a bunch of dimwits congratulating themselves on their latest ingenious scheme only to have it backfire yet again?
Isn't there one word that sums up the childish, witless defiance of George W Bush and his cohort of mediocrities, a word that ought to follow this Administration into the history books of future generations? Isn't that word "disingenious"?