Word: circus
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bailout flight, Palin media scrutiny and debate circus have limited Republicans' ability to shape the race's dynamics, allowing Obama to bask in 2008's natural political order. Biggest blowout week of the general election...
...would suspend his campaign to salvage the bailout talks and would skip the first presidential debate unless negotiators hammered out a deal--although he didn't seem to suspend much, and the talks had been going pretty well without him. They blew up only after he dragged the circus of presidential politics back to Washington and left the impression that he agreed with House Republicans who opposed the deal. Then McCain announced he would debate after all because the stalled negotiations were back on track, although in fact the on-track negotiations had stalled. They unstalled after he left...
...challenge the attempt, but McCoy simply sprinted around her and backhanded a shot into the net. “It felt really good to put one in for the team and contribute,” McCoy said. Harvard closed the first half with a circus play that resulted in its third goal in less than six minutes. The play began when McCoy shook a defender along the end line and fired an open shot at the goal. Crane blocked the shot, which popped up into the air and bounced back toward McCoy. McCoy swung at the ball and sent...
...then McCain made his surprise announcement that the financial crisis was more important than politics, which was why he had to drag the entire circus of presidential politics into the middle of the delicate negotiations. Which seemed to blow up the moment he arrived in town. Conservative Republicans in the House had their own ideas for a bailout, including a suspension of capital-gains taxes, which made no sense as a response to a Wall Street free-fall - a capital-gains tax holiday would only encourage a bigger sell-off - but hey, conservative Republicans in the House really hate capital...
...junk, brushing on a fresh coat of paint and selling it for full price. Now, in the wake of Barack Obama's use of the saying and the McCain/Palin attacks against him over it, "putting lipstick on a pig" has become the latest flashpoint in the presidential campaign circus. But politicians and average joes have tossed around the folksy phrase long before this recent bump on the campaign trail. A sampling...