Gaming the system

Theater of the absurd?

War chest?

On a wing and a prayer

Pants are on fire

Children are not cookie cutters

Team player?

Gold dust

Moments that take our breath away

In the cross hairs?

High wire act

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Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Read the tea leaf?

Local democracy bites the dust

Hit the hay?

In the doghouse?

Toast of the town?

Sisyphean task

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Social fabric?

Stop on a dime?

Rule of thumb?

In the nosebleeds

What is an entrenched issue?

Stopped in her tracks?

Close to the bone

Coming home to roost?

We just got our head handed to us

Dog whistle politics