What is an entrenched issue?

Peer review

Toast of the town?

Both sides of the aisle?

Right side of history?

High wire act

Place to blow off some steam?

Sacrificial lamb

Sisyphean task

Herculean proportions?

Zero-hour contract

Team player?

Spitball some ideas?

Stop on a dime?

Flip the script?

Stopped in her tracks?

In the nosebleeds

Career break?

We just got our head handed to us

Con artist?

In the doghouse?

In the cross hairs?

Coming home to roost?

On a wing and a prayer

Theater of the absurd?

Gaming the system

Moments that take our breath away

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Dog whistle politics

Political mumbo-jumbo