This has been quite the week. With the legions of people
discussing, explaining, analyzing, justifying, and obfuscating, I wouldn't dream of adding my own two cents. (Whoops. Metaphor alert!) Commentators have been working overtime, and so have the metaphors. To share just a few, these heard on the various news reports seem to track events fairly accurately.
Well under the radar
House of mirrors, poisoning followers (a mixed metaphor if ever there was one.
Stonewalling
Tool in the toolbox
Monkey wrench thrown into the process
Genie out of the bottle
Snowball set in motion
They're pounding on the door - Oh, wait, that's from a loan company's ad about creditors. . . .
Rock bottom week for the GOP
Rats fleeing a sinking ship
And some metaphors from the international outlook:
"America no longer defines the course, and therefore has lost all right to set it." (Konstantin Kosachey, chairman of the Russian upper house foreign affairs committee.)
But more hopefully:
"A new chapter of U.S. democracy" will begin in two weeks. (Angela Merkel)
