The American Democratic Party commiting political suicide
lit: to kill the donkey. (asinus {donkey}+ cidium {kill})
I have watched the Democrats do this again and again. They win the public over and then procede to undo it all through infighting, selfish interests and just plain stupidity. I researched the latin and came up with the best I could for a word that seemed to fit the situation
Once again, the Democrats are going all out to commit asinicide in this session of congress.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)