Friday, January 4, 2013

Cliffs and metaphors

John Boehner today: “With the cliff behind us, the focus turns to spending.”

Wait a minute: if the cliff is behind us, doesn’t that mean that we’ve already — oh, never mind.

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comments: 2

Anonymous said...

That brings me to tears.

The Subliminal Mr Dunn said...

Indeed!