Norm-speak^TM

[nohrm-speek]
-noun

1. an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
2. language used for a deceptive stratagem or device.
3. statement intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity.
4. Words that to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.

Etymology - Named after Norm Coleman, a Minnesota politician, famous for dissembling and hiding the true nature of his views behind flowery language, repetition of certain phrases, shameless name-dropping, irrelevant examples and occasional stuttering.

Repetitive phrases
The repetitive phrases such as "by the way", "Uh", "Um", "you know", "I have to tell ya" and "I mean" appear frequently in his speech. These verbal pauses allow Norm time to think ways in which he can stretch the truth, evade answering a question or explain that what he'd previously said wasn't what he actually meant.

Shameless name-dropping
Norm frequently name drops for two purposes. The first purpose is to impress the listener that he is a bi-partisan uniter working with such a wide-range of politicians that any accusation that he's a partisan hack. The second purpose is to overwhelm the listener with his arcane and in-depth knowledge of a particular issue so that the listener will be impressed by his vast knowledge and forget that what he is saying is largely incoherent or non-factual.

Norm will name-drop people and he will name drop programs or bills.

Stuttering
In the long, run-on sentences that Norm tends to employ, he will occasionally stutter. Not in the sense that most people afflicted with stuttering do so, but he'll repeat a short word multiple times as he thinks of what he wants to say next and how he wants to say it.

This tendency can also be witnessed in young children attempting to lie their way out of trouble.

Classic example

I disagree uh with the President ... uh ... I, I, I, I agree with him and I disagree with him ... [laughter from crowd] ... I disagree with him on disaster assistance, I disagree with him on [mumbles incoherently] funding, I disagree with I that things I that again I have to tell ya I don't call him up and ask him what he thinks, I try to represent you. And on this issues, and on this issue I was uh by the way I was one of the ones I didn't think the surge would work and by the way ..."
(Norm will say anything)