Posted on 07/11/2008 10:24:35 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Greetings from our nation's capital! Here, a robust public transportation system helps shield the local populace from the pain of high gasoline prices. But that's not to say there aren't mobility problems. In fact, this year, DC has witnessed a sharp increase in high-profile political figures who have been tossed "under the bus." Really, it's a wonder that they run at all anymore.
The single-most overused cliché among pundits and journalists these days, "under the bus" connotes a public cutting-of-ties with a former ally. The action, like a sucker-punch on its hapless victim, often, but not always, comes as a surprise. Those who are tossed under that large, moving vehicle usually express outrage, or shame, or both. Those who toss run the risk of charges of hypocrisy. The timing of the tossing is always seen as suspect, a symptom of political convenience rather than of true moral fiber.
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What happened to that old acorn of a saying “that dog won’t hunt?”
I like that a lot better than “throwing someone under the bus.”
It’s more civilized, don’t you think?
And why are poltical secrets “dirty” and “little?”
Why can’t they be huge and clean?
More civilized, maybe. But maybe less apt in a political campaign. You can only throw so many people under the bus before it gets high centered and stuck.
You Win. I can’t compete against those. Hats off to whoever created them.
I wonder if they meant, “FARTHER”?
They are the ones the liberal media always leave out about republicans.
Please don't ask me to enter the 'mind' of a 70s era hippy. I stopped using that stuff decades ago! :)
I remember looking at them back then and shaking my head.
When someone was no longer able to "pull his own weight"-ie, contribute to the welfare/winning ways of the club, they became "luggage", because the rest of the team would have to "pull 'em all over the place" instead of them helping the team.
Naturally, the best place for things like luggage was, yes, "under the bus".
Everyone in the sporting world knows how these low-budget teams travel, by bus.
So, the original meaning of the term was not "trying to get rid of someone by smashing them", or "sacrificing them", but it meant that since you were "useless" and couldn't contribute, you were merely "tossed under the bus" like "luggage".
There ya' have it!
Well, Obama certainly does seem to have a lot of "excess baggage". :)
“I wonder if they meant, “FARTHER”?
Please don’t ask me to enter the ‘mind’ of a 70s era hippy. I stopped using that stuff decades ago! :)”
FYI, it was “Furthur” and the 1960s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furthur
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