It is frustrating when politicians twist language to hide what they are really trying to do. The earliest example I can think of is on both sides of the abortion issue. The two sides are pro-abortion and anti-abortion. Those are extremely accurate terms of where a person stands on the legalization of abortion. However, no one wants to be "anti" anything, so one side became pro-life. The word abortion has too many negative connotations, so the other side became pro-choice. That is positive and it gets rid of the "a" word.

Recently the estate tax became a hot political topic. The only problem is the word estate is too elitist, and the large percentage of people would not describe what they have to leave behind as an estate, so that was changed to the death tax. Everyone dies. Not everyone has an estate. (Technically they do, but not in the sense that the law makers are trying to convey.)

When the Republicans wanted to prevent the Democrats from filibustering they named the plan they came up with "The Nuclear Option". They thought that was just great for a few weeks, and then they realized it was too easy to spin the name of that plan into something too overbearing and hawkish, so they changed that to "The Constitutional Option" even though it has nothing to do with anything in the Constitution.

The latest one I heard today is really annoying. There is a tax scheme that has been talked about for at least a couple of decades called the flat tax. Everyone pays exactly the same rate, with a few exceptions for the very poor, regardless if you make $20,000, $200,000, or $2,000,000 per year. Apparently "flat tax" was not polling too well because now they are calling it the "Fair Tax". Morons.