According to the American Heritage Dictionary, "to bloviate" is to "discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner." It was a favorite term of President Warren G. Harding, who was quite the bloviator himself. Of Harding, critic and satirist H.L. Mencken wrote, "He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the top most pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash." Cobbloviate dedicates itself to the high standard set by President Harding.