I believe the major source of public contempt for Congress -- and contempt may not be too strong a word -- is that Congress seems incapable of doing ANYTHING.
The ignorance of politicians in matters financial is a source of constant contempt on the Street.
That over-oaked, vanilla-ish layer that turns chardonnay cloying and buttery is the source of much contempt.
"Sharfufa," said spray-painted Arabic graffiti, meaning simply, "Frizz-head," a reference to Qaddafi's bushy and unkempt hairstyle — a source of widespread contempt amongst ordinary, assiduously well-groomed Libyans.
University administrators were a rich source of amused contempt and fury, though probably less so than arts bureaucrats who blithely assumed that since Markham was black (born in Montserrat, resident in Britain and Europe and New Guinea and elsewhere from 1956) he must be a performance poet.
If they are united in their sense of being contemptible, they have, moreover, an implacable solidarity against the sources of all that contempt.
But he admitted that, in fact, he was wrong and tried to hide the error by destroying documents and manufacturing others, which is the source of the one count of criminal contempt to which he pleaded guilty.
This would make an odd choice for a number of reasons, not the least of which is Microsoft's history of contempt for the Linux (and even the open-source) ecosphere.
But the Democratic Unionist Assembly member for North Antrim said that even with the threat of contempt of court and a possible prison sentence hanging over him he would still continue to protect his source's anonymity.
The moralistic cloak was used to cover the true source of their activism--their animosity and contempt for groups they targeted.
