Subjunctive Outrage

The recent IRS scandal had an interesting little tidbit of terminology emerge last week when Charles Krauthammer (otherwise known by his rap character: Chuckie Kraut, or as his pro wrestling moniker: The Kraut Hammer) mentioned how President Obama and White House Press Foiler in Chief Jay Carney both said: “If it has been found that this happened…” after the IRS had already admitted that it had happened and had already apologized for it, and then he called it: “subjunctive outrage”. And then I thought: Hey, “Subjunctive Outrage”: what a great name that would be for a punk rock band made up of high school English teachers! They could sing all about grammatical rules with big colorful Mohawk haircuts and tattoos of grammar terms all over their arms. And their first album could be called: “Grammatical Imperative”. And their greatest hits album would be called: “Superlative”.