Odds are within in the last hour 5 other posters have made the same point.

Bryant

I hate that term with every fiber of my being. It was stupid when it started and now it's so massively overused that I think that it and "at the end of the day" should be hanging offences. If you use them together (At the end of the day we know that someone will be thrown under the bus in order to...) that's cause for the return of Hang-Draw & Quarter or boiling oil.

I once wrote a reply to someone using it (often I might add) stating that anybody that says it should be thrown under a bus. It passed Jury 5-1 so I know I'm not alone.

I've been scratching my head about it ever since I first saw it used. What's it TALKING about? Who ever got thrown under a bus?

I wonder if they scared their friends to the point that they were worried about buses.

on ESPN or some sports show where they were talking about teammates not coming through in the clutch. I always kind of pictured it as meaning that instead of helping someone, usually a friend or teammate, catch up to and climb onto a moving bus you just ditched them and let them go under the wheels. It really is a stupid term isn't it?

It didn't really start to piss me off though until the 2008 election when you couldn't find someone that wasn't yammering about so and so being thrown under a bus or throwing someone else under a bus. Steve Schmidt (McCain's chief of staff) and Sarah Palins press crews were famous for using it. Later in the campaign often against each other.

All this bus chucking and nobody, absolutely nobody, is even thinking of the poor bus drivers that drove over these people or the dudes back at the bus barn that had to pressure wash the guts of every pathetic aide and pollster that was ground up into the brake rotors.

I hop they get good counselling on their insurance....

And where can I get one?

I would so LOVE a table that you could put things on or take things off to see if they were reasonable things to make moral decisions about.

A Table of Moral Discussability.

It's sort of like an invisibility cloak or love potion but in a really nerdy D&D type thing for political geeks.

It sounds like it would be a Deck of Many Things