He added that this might even become a regional war, and lambasted the president for making speeches at home rather than getting on a plane and drumming up international pressure on Iraqi factions "to make the concessions that are needed".In Bush-bashing terms, that still puts Mr Biden some way behind the current darling of the left, Russ Feingold (see article).
In other words, our political leaders and those who aspire to replace them should be debating the fiscal policies that will put Americans to work in the short term and reduce the deficit in the long term — not bashing the Fed.
On the campaign trail, cozying up to labor by bashing trade makes short-term sense.
In a newspaper appeal, they criticised attacks on the president, calling for an end to what they termed "Hollande bashing".
(From those memos, we now know that Bush Administration lawyers had a technical term for what Charles Graner called bashing a man against a wall. The term is "walling").
There are few things the French find more annoying than what they call "French bashing" — a term they use in English, despite their insistence on finding French equivalents for foreign words.
It is also worth noting that China bashing actually makes little sense in terms of getting U.S. presidential candidates elected.
It is obvious to almost everyone, except op-ed page editors across the country, that for liberals bashing conservatives and for conservatives bashing liberals, the terms "liberal" and "conservative" are politically correct substitutes for "stupid".
Every time Labour indulges in bashing immigrants and unemployed people, it just allows the Tories to set the terms of debate, driving issues up the national agenda that ensure the Right thrives.
The term is a Border Patrol slang that derives from the sound of bashing an immigrant over the head with a metal flashlight.
"He was bashing her head".
