Place to blow off some steam?

Peer review

Theater of the absurd?

Herculean proportions?

Sisyphean task

Sacrificial lamb

Local democracy bites the dust

Zero-hour contract

Old saw?

Con artist?

Social fabric?

Object lesson?

Gaming the system

Coming home to roost?

Read the tea leaf?

Soul searching

Two minds?

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

We just got our head handed to us

Gold dust

Right side of history?

Flip the script?

Political mumbo-jumbo

Toast of the town?

On a wing and a prayer

What is an entrenched issue?

Moments that take our breath away

Stop on a dime?

Pants are on fire

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