The true outrage lies in two places.
Scandal and outrage, lying and humiliation — all of it messy and delivered in a loud, public fashion — are consuming political life here, as a virtual death watch has settled over the second term of President Chen Shui-bian.
Because four months ago, this city came under attack from those who hate our country and despise our values....Let us be in no doubt: the responsibility for such an outrage lies with no one other than those who planned it, and those who saw it through.
Stewart says he'll need to import new staffers because the existing bunch is just too detached from civic affairs or politically compromised to be outraged about lying officials, lazy bureaucrats or impudent disturbers of the peace: "If Mike Royko showed up in the Times newsroom as a younger man, nobody would take him out for a drink".
In his personal hit parade of intolerable linguistic outrages, the confusion of lay and lie comes in a close second.
Marcelino Gutierrez, a 46-year-old union electrician employed by the City of Chicago, is outraged by plans to lay off 20,000 teachers.
But it was theatrically outrageous in the service of grand spiritual outrage, and in that, critics agreed, lay its power.
"It's impossible to suffer such an outrage, open lies and inability to negotiate any longer … Our column with humanitarian aid is starting to move toward Luhansk," the statement said.
With Abbott in charge, it was easy for the left to channel their outrage towards issues like this, and lay the blame squarely at his feet.
By this book lay other revelations of fiscal outrage.
