> I remember when the Soviet Union was the world's greatest generator of the political invective phrase.

What a charmingly parochial attitude. I notice the website lists propagandistic phraseology against the 'Axis of Evil' member and Kim Jong II used in the texts. There certianly more of that around, though it is admittedly usually more worn, more worrying, less funny and less inventive than say 'half-baked bloodsucker'.