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Cutting loose a hot potato.
Awkward metaphor of the day
“Nikki Haley has tried to straddle it, and all she’s gotten is strained muscles”: Claire McCaskill on MSNBC.
Olives as cars
“Ann, you got some olives? The green ones with the red tail lights?”
Gabbard, Palin, Hitchens
Tulsi Gabbard is the Sarah Palin of Christopher Hitchenses. Or: Tulsi Gabbard is the Christopher Hitchens of Sarah Palins. I can see it both ways.
A petard
A nice way to illustrate the idea of poetic justice. Also the idea of being hoist with one’s own petard.
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Toeing the DeSantis mantra.
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Threading a needle between coattails and wrath.
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“There are at least some cracks — seeming cracks? — in Trump’s hold and they center for now on Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida.”
Fantastic Voyage
Michael Steele (the political commentator, not the ex-Bangle), on MSNBC just now, describing his fellow Republicans.
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“Supply-chain bottleneck.”
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Andrew Yang: “I want to be the metaphorical wet blanket for the country.”
Artist’s conception
Fabric at the precipice.
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“I believe that the fabric of our truly free, civilized society is at a precipice.”
Dr. Jerome Adams makes a metaphor
He’s — what? — theologizing the vaccine?
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“He might pull the rug out from under Kevin McCarthy no matter how many times he tries to go back to the well.”
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“Here he is, now at the precipice of introducing a new era.”
“A blue-grey bracelet of jetsam”
West London, the early 1960s. A boy who will grow up to write a book about sardines has a first encounter with the small oily fish.
Wha?
On The 11th Hour, Brian Williams just characterized Republican distancing from Donald Trump* as a Great Migration and “a family trip to Africa.”
Bikes and birds
Trump* on steroids.
Metaphor of the day
“He is fat Elvis.”
Polishing
“Rome is burning, and he’s polishing the Washington Monument”: David Gregory on CNN just now.
A metaphor
A runaway train.
Jeez
“His business card is seven inches long”: Brian Williams, introducing a guest on The Eleventh Hour just now.
Iowa as metaphor
Frank Bruni: “This wasn’t a political contest; it was a kidney stone.”
Small pleasures
House Manager Adam Schiff (D, California-18) today spoke the word copasetic on the Senate floor. And he referenced some famous phrasing from Casablanca : “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world,” casting Burisma as Rick’s Café Américain.
The House Managers
“Give the ball to Adam.”
Italy’s Sardines
“Organizers say their goal is to stop a far-right, anti-immigrant wave rising in Italian society and politics.”
“A night in October”
A night in October is a blanket is a night in October.
At the table
“We should continue to focus on kitchen-table pocketbook issues.” That’s boilerplate language.
Literal cream
“It’s going to be interesting to see how the cream of the crop rises to the top.”