Chutzpah

Chutzpah is a Yiddish word for "insolence, audacity and impertinence."  An example of chutzpah is Sen. Frist and House Speaker Hassert blaming the Democrats for the ugly, punitive immigration bill passed by the House of Representatives in December.  "If only the Democrats weren't so mean-spirited," exclaimed Speaker Hassert, oblivious to the chutzpah of his statement, "we would have passed a kinder and gentler bill."  Okay, what they really said was that the Democrats lacked "compassion."  That's chutzpah compounded.