Sensenbrenner has become a new verb in Spanish. Not a polite one, either.

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OK, I am dying to know what the "new verb" is. Can anyone tell me?


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Congressman gains notoriety from immigration debate
By CAROLYN LOCHHEAD
July 3, 2006

Sensenbrenner has become a new verb in Spanish. Not a polite one, either.

It's an odd turn for Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who for 28 years has represented the suburbs that ring Milwaukee, where most last names are German and the closest border lies north, with Canada.

The old dairy barns that still dot what is left of farmland stand as signatures of the not-far-removed immigrant forebears of the affluent suburbanites who live there today. Their curved Gothic roofs and fieldstone walls were built by peasants who fled famine and poverty in Germany, Norway, Wales and Ireland, or merely sought a better life in the rolling green dairy lands of Wisconsin. They were soon followed by Poles and Italians who worked in the factories that still turn out Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Miller beer.

Today they live in tidy villages on the shore of Lake Michigan or in the booming suburbs to the west. Some still wear Bavarian jackets to Sensenbrenner's town hall meetings, and applaud his defense of the bill he wrote that would fence out Mexicans and make felons of illegal immigrants and those who help them. They are affluent, overwhelmingly white and deeply Republican. They are Midwestern, plain-spoken, patriotic and friendly. They invite strangers to stay for meat loaf. They are fond of rules and order. They don't like lawbreaking. They respect hard work.

They now find themselves in the unlikely position of supporting the man who has made himself the bulwark against efforts to expand legal immigration...

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_4821636,00.html

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1. I wonder if it is defective, like rain in Spanish?

One really cannot say "I rain"/"Yo lluvo" in Spanish.

sensenbrenno
sensenbrenes
sensenbrene....

I like it better as a noun on the santorum/coulter model.

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2. I have no idea.

But I wouldn't want to be Sensenbrennered.

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3. That's a very narrow characterization of Sensenbrenner's district

While the quaint old-world characters described in the article do exist in his district, it is also home to one of the larger Latino populations in the state (after Milwaukee). Waukesha has had a lot of people from both sides of the border down in Texas coming up to work at the old Waukesha Engine Works since the 1950's.

Also, while Bush carried Waukesha county, Kerry's vote total in Waukesha County was one of his higher county-wide totals in the state -- it just was somewhat less than what Bush got (it was something like 60/40 for Bush, or maybe even closer).

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5. Bush carried Waukesha by over 36%. It was more than 2:1.

You will struggle to find counties with a higher population, or an equal one, that are more Republican.

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8. But Waukesha elected a Democrat mayor in April-

the times, they are a changin'... :hi:

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6. I think there are more latinos than S wants to believe

Waukesha has a bi-lingual high school (which really does infuriate the white racists in Hartland) and I've heard that there are many latinos in West Allis.

The 2000 census said the district was only 3% non-white, so S doesn't feel like his immigration position does him any harm. The census may miss certain groups though. Kennedy, being fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, is certainly going to pull the Latino vote.

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4. A Verb or a Noun?

I could start with

Jodón
Cabrón
Hijoputa
gilipolla
capullo

Shall I continue?

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7. well they say its a verb

and that its impolite but that's all I know!

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9. kicking for an answer!