[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Wrong Metaphor

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Wrong Metaphor
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1242087931.shtml


   I saw this amusing paragraph in this morning's [1]Minneapolis Star
   Tribune regarding the State Budget impasse:

     Late last week, unable to achieve a united front on earlier tax
     bills that had soared up to $2.2 billion, DFL leaders outflanked
     Republicans with a surprise maneuver that sent the $1 billion tax
     package roaring through both bodies on partisan votes Friday night
     and on to Pawlenty, who vetoed it.

   Outflanked? When I hear "outflanked" I think of Washington crossing
   the Delaware, Patton liberating France, "Nuts!" and Waterloo.
   Actually, Waterloo might be appropriate, from Napoleon's perspective
   that is. It was the Duke of South St. Paul's counter-thrust compromise
   that today caught the DFL off guard.
   But as to the general situation the DFL has spent months creating for
   itself, only one metaphor will do: Dunkirk.

References

   1. http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/44680407.html