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The lead story in today's New York Times quotes Bill Clinton saying that the Republican budget passed yesterday by the House, which he intends to veto, "totally bumfuzzled " American voters on the question of whether Social Security funds would be tapped for current spending.
But what really interests Chatterbox is the president's use of the word, bumfuzzled , which Chatterbox has never heard before.
Chatterbox at first felt sure that bumfuzzled was a coinage of Clinton's, like (but more colorful than) Warren Harding's coinage of "normalcy."
Here is precisely what Clinton said (at an unrelated awards ceremony for "blue ribbon schools" at the Washington Hilton; interestingly, the transcription available on the White House Web site spells it "bum-fusseled," which is incorrect; Chatterbox here uses the text supplied by the Federal News Service, which spelled bumfuzzled correctly):
And a Sept. 9 AP story quotes George Beason, a member of the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission, saying, "I'm just bumfuzzled " that the U.S.