Having received scores of emails inquiring whether the reference being propagated across the blawgosphere by that yenta, Kevin Underhill at Lowering the Bar, I feel compelled to put the rumors to rest.

Alan Simpson, who was a senator from Wyoming and more recently a co-chair of the president’s deficit commission (don’t remember that? Neither does anybody in Washington) is renowned for his “colorful language.” He reinforced that reputation recently by saying this on CNN :

We’re going to get rid of all earmarks, all waste, fraud and abuse, all foreign aid, Air Force One, all congressional pensions . . . . That’s just sparrow belch in the midst of the typhoon. That’s about six, eight, ten percent of where we are. So, I’m waiting for the politician to get up and say, there’s only one way to do this: you dig into the big four, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and defense. And anybody giving you anything different than that, you want to walk out the door, stick your finger down your throat, and give them the green weenie.

I have no idea what the heck Simpson is referring to.  I am not now, nor have I ever been, referred to as “the green weenie.”  Frankly, it sounds disgusting, which is backed up by the only reliable source on the internet, the Urban Dictionary.

Moreover, if there was any connection whatsoever between me and the green weenie, don’t you think  Marc Randazza would be the  first to know about it?