Out: ‘US Government’ — In: ‘Federal Family’
**Written by Doug Powers
“The good hands people” and “like a good neighbor” were already taken, so it was the next obvious choice:
But before Irene fizzled, the Obama White House wanted to make sure that Irene was no Katrina and that, in fact, the president and his aides would be seen in compassionate command of the situation.
Hence the introduction of what may be the most condescending euphemism for the national government in its long history of condescending euphemizing: “federal family.”
This new phrase was supposed to, Power Play supposes, make anxious East Coasters feel the love of a caring federal government — tender squeeze from the Department of Homeland Security, a gentle embrace from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The phrase was a centrally distributed talking point, appearing in op-eds, press releases and statements from across the administration.
So keep in mind that even if the storm is a category 1, you can expect a caring category 5 embrace from your federal family:

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If my “family” was $14 trillion in debt I’d put myself up for adoption. Oh, and the “federal family” member who would have normally caught the spelling error in “preperations” was out tending to family, so we can forgive that oversight.
This has helped soften the image of the federal government to such a degree that the IRS is now considering referring to themselves as America’s “little audit buddies.”
**Written by Doug Powers
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I have the right to tell my deadbeat biological relatives “NO” when they ask for more money.
I think I should be able to do the same for my deadbeat Federal relatives, too, yes?
If the gov is family, I want a divorce! No more nanny state cr@p! Who wants a family that can’t balance a budget, can’t live within its means and acts like a shopaholic.
Queue the “Family Feud” theme in 3 … 2 … 1 …
The same Federal Family that sends a Department of Education SWAT team with automatic weapons storming into my home conducting a no-knock assault endangering my young children are, because my estranged wife did not pay her student loan?
I feel the love already.
The ONLY way they could be my family is by blood. And since I have a choice, NO THANKS!
In that case…I’ll be lookin’ for a birthday present.
So sad, what this once proud nation has fallen to. This would be laughable if it weren’t so pathetic. But at least we caught illegal alien Uncle Onyango Obama(sp)?!! Now we can pay his court costs while he fights deportation like Aunt Zeitunya, who is still here on the govt. dole.
How in Hades did this family of mouthbreathers get in the White House?
i want a dna test, no way they are related to me. my family would never call me a racist terrorist, like that one did.
The dumber our government gets, the more the more they talk like characters from Sesame Street.
Uhh… a “federal family” government would, almost by definition, be a tribal government.
If we have to invite Crazy Uncle Plugs for Thanksgiving…could we make him sit at the kiddie table?
Webster’s clarifies:
a unit of a crime syndicate (as the Mafia) operating within a geographical area
Off topic: fed judge put temp hold on AL immigration law…more legislating from the bench?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ALABAMA_IMMIGRATION_LAW?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-29-15-04-10
OK, you’re in da family. You wanna stay healthy?
1. Never “rat out” any family member. Never divulge any family secrets. Even if threatened by torture or death.
2. Obey orders, no matter what.
3. Provide assistance to any other respected or befriended family faction.
4. Any attacks on family members must be avenged. “An attack on one is an attack on all.”
5. Avoid contact with the authorities.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open kid and you’ll do good.
Maybe now they will handle the federal budget the way families do: living within one’s means.
In my family, reaching for the last pork chop could result in being stabbed in the hand with a fork, leading the onsuing brotherly fight. Come on, Ja-No! Reach for that chop…I double-dog dare ya.
We also put the youngest (who could walk and talk) in charge of entertaining the senile grandpa, so I guess Turbo Tax Timmy is gonna have to hang with Ol’ Plugs.
the united states(all 57 of them) is a geographical area, isn’t it?
Doesn’t anyone spell check the federal web sites? They spelled preparations…”preperations”.
Sorry, bad spelling in professional situations is a pet peeve of mine.
Mine two.
Not to mention sin tax errors.
Being referred to as a family reminds me of the story of a news reporter interviewing a Czech shortly after the Soviet invasion in 1968. He was asked if he considered the Soviets as “friends” or as “brothers”. The journalist was quite impressed when the citizen said the Soviets were like brothers, but then the citizen went on to clarify “We get to choose our friends.”
Use of the word “family” seems to fall into the same category.
Wow! Talk about your dysfunctional families!
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your family. You can however choose which family members to talk to and which to ignore at Thanksgiving dinner.
In 14 trillion dollars, nobody thought to install a copy of spellcheck?
Actually dumb enough to put that socialist cr@p in writing! Makes a guy feel all warm and fuzzy don’t it?
‘Federal Family’ yeah like I really want to get a big kiss from ‘Big Brother’ or , ‘Big Sis’. More like the kiss of death from a ‘Godfather’.
Errah a LGBT disfunctional federal family. . . . PUKE!
Great.
This means that it is incest now when the feds ……….. never mind.
If you are good, Father Obie will let you live in his land.
The gubmint can kith my ath.
What’s the big deal? They have parsed the Constitution into meaningless gibberish. What’s the harm in making up new words and terms to suit their nefarious aims?
Errah, Just like a 250K a year Millionaire/Billionaire, this Administration continues to ba$tardize the definition of everything whether its a terrorist, marriage, illegal alien or a tropical storm/hurricane. I think I heard a muffled explosion of Daniel Webster’s cranium!
Is one of the federal family members big brother?
Federal Family = Ruling Elite = Politburo Committee = Benevolent Overseers = Shepherds of the Proletariat = Slave Masters
I was thinking that Hollywood never has to worry about doing a remake of “1984″. With all the Newspeak flying around this country for the past decade, we’re already living the “remake”. I’m sure it will have the same happy ending, too.
kith, kin and kine, from the looks of that photo.
La Familia Federales, huh? Conjurs up all sort of things not to like.
“In: ‘Federal Family’”
I’d bet that Karl Marx wish he had thought of that one!
You’re a bit late to the party. The ‘Family Feud’ has been going on for decades!
It’s just like liberals to ‘change the language’ to suit their agenda. I didn’t get along with a lot of my blood family members and I don’t know why the US GOVERNMENT would think I would get along any better with FEDERAL FAMILY members.
I would disown the deadbeats and kick their butts out into the blowing snow and bitter cold. I have no time for people that don’t pull their weight. But, that’s just me!
When you’ve become the Nanny State, the Nanny-in-Chief feels he needs to soothe the Sucklings.
Sadly they are all Children in the Basement. “Mom, I’m hungry and my chamber pot needs emptying!”
I first read that as “Feral Family”
Laughed hard & needed that. Thnx
I want my Uncle Sam to move out and go to another country.
More like my sister-in-law….living
withinbeyond everyone else’s means.That is just plain creepy. I don’t need that old lech Uncle Sam giving me a hug.
Dear government,
I already have a family and I don’t want to be part of your “Federal Family” or your parasitic nanny state. So, from this moment on I officially opt out.
Yeah, its bad enough the old fella’s had his hand in your wallet for years.
in this family, 47% of the kids are supporting the parents AND the other 53%.
This federal family has a lot of incestuous hanky panky going on.
You are welcome. I can’t take too much more of their nannyism.
HAHAHAHA you have thuch a ‘way’ with wordth!
But thaying that, you are thilly!
Then why not ‘family’? Isn’t Truesoldier already ponying up for extra school supplies for all the less fortunate members of his extended and unwanted family..?
Spot on Teddy.
No suprise there…
They have already included themselves in the will through the “Death Tax”,
They repeatedly nag us about what we eat,
They want to have a say as to what kind of cars we drive,
Hell, they are either in-laws, or outlaws.
P. eth. Grandma…. you thouldn’t make fun of people that thpeak with a lithp. It’th not thivilithed.
Lisp is such a cruel word, anyway.
People with a lisp can’t say it.
Daffy Duck: “Well, thufferin thuccotash!!”
Must be a typo, they meant to say “feral family” as out of control as this bunch is.
Or maybe they meant “Fuedal Family”. They are the the lords, we are the serfs attached to their lands.
Correct and factual when it all boils down.
The in progress attempt at a UN Gun grab and increased taxes on ammo are indications that make people get just a bit nervous about what’s just over the horizon.
I thought that was Thylvethter the Cat.
Squeezing your butt while yanking your wallet. Or is it the other way around?
How do you top a car???
Tep on the brake, tupid.
‘thlaps head’, Yeth, it thertainly is!!!
A thimple mixup of toons!
Shouldn’t it be ruthless overseers? I don’t recall the Politburo being terribly benevolent.
Kith, kin, kine, all part of a feral family.
But NOT MINE.
I want a waiver!!
Thufferin’ thuckatath – thop thith thilly thwead potht hathte! We got bigger fith to fwy!
It just struck me that there isn’t an attic big enough to keep all the crazy old awnts, uncles, brothas, sistahs, moms and pops chained to the wall (or roof). I guess it’s time to reinstate the mental hospitals so they won’t be a danger to themselves or others.
Liberals… be forewarned, the men in the white coats(not REAL docs, just unemployed people in lab coats) and butterfly nets are on the prowl. Strait jackets are by request.
We’re coming to take you away!
Refer to #67
The Propaganda machine is working overtime in this administration.
I’m juth thowing my age… not my ath!
“Federal Family” huh? Ok, I finally believe in abortion.
Bahney Fwank is a MM member?
Along with the printing presses at the Fed. SOMEONE that has access should be pulling the plug on both of them.
Where is O’Mulligan with the bankrupting of coal companies when you need him? Cut the power (in more ways than one) to DC…. Brown outs, black outs, I don’t care… just do it! Where’s Irene when you need her? Slackin’ at Mawtha’s Vin Yard I would suspect.
the Fed probably has a backup generator to prevent an interruption in power. OOoops maybe I shouldn’t have said that. Ding, Dang, diggity!
I’m surprised you didn’t make the connection.
Obama is from Chicago.
The government is “The Family”.
Both Daffy and Sylvester used the phrase, but it became Sylvester’s signature line. Sorry to get precise and factual…now back to our usual Loony Tune behavior.
I guess dear sis is getting us primed for bho’s 9/11 we need to do community service on that date?
A family? My family helps those in need, not what the feds say I need to help? It seems the family is taking funds from states/red, that need funds to deal with things that have happended for months but get zero press? Floods, fires, no rain for months. Is the family somewhat the same that happended over 60 years ago with one who said do for the greater good?
L
Funniest comment on a great thread!
Reminds of the Skipper addressing Gilligan as “little Buddy”.
And the American taxpayer is treated like the red-headed stepchild.
There’s a familial ovine analogy that could be made here, but you’re not allowed to think it because you might be labeled as…something.
Does this make Ja-No my brother…er…uh…sister?
No worrieth. Thankth for thetting uth thrait.
EEEEEWWWWWW!! I have a Fedophile in my family!! Get thee away from me, Satan!!
Do you really want the kids learning that Thanksgiving is a big “F”ing deal from Uncle Plugs?
I didn’t think so.
OHHHHHHHHHH…its not a huge tyrannical government run by marxists that is killing our Country..it’s my federal family!!! Well geez, that’s a horse of a different color. How stupid of me. I loveeeee my federal family. Obama in 2012!!!!!!
Sorry, I have a family and we have plenty of insane regressives already. Don’t need any more!! And that attempt at softening the term Big Brother, or Nanny State has fallen as flat as the back of Odumbo’s head.
One very big inefficient family that can’t keep track of anyone or anything else except for their specialty.
Oh, you have one of those too. They say misery loves company, consider us company.
Try ‘media whores’ of a different color.
So, is that why the government thinks it can vaccinate our kids any time they want, and let them get abortions without parental consent? Cause we are just one big happy family? I’m taking my immediate family and moving…perhaps to a witness protection program so the federal family can’t find us!
On August 29, 2011 at 05:41 pm, cabrerski said:
Considering that both were voiced by Mel Blanc. They were the same voice, only Daffy was higher pitched and faster.
On August 29, 2011 at 06:35 pm, sbw999 said:
Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist!!!!!
Stuff like this makes me wish there had been a cat5 hurricane so that people could see the governemnt can not take care of the situation. Obama would have many of the same troubles Bush had with Katrina, if not more because of the big cities involved.
Obama can now say, look at how good I did and if this was a cat 5, look at how good I would have been.
Similar to jobs saved. Obama has done great at these non events that nobody can dispute because they never happened. Plus he did a great job of keeping us out of that World War with Mexico. Whew. That was a close one. Thanks Obama. You are great.
Ok, federal family….. I’m cutting off your allowance!
Be it the the speech impediment or compute language, it’s indecipherable either way.
I thought you knew nothing!
Is this like having a sister in a whorehouse?
I think we should kick out Uncle Sam out of the house. He’s mooching too much.
I think I’d rather take my chances with the Manson family.
“Obama’s playhouse”. The series that should have been cancelled a long, long, time ago but due to the huge infusion of crony left-wing dollars it lives on and on and on and . . . . .