"Third Rail of American Politics" (Social Security) (1982, Tip O'Neill?)

[Grant Barrett]

On Jan 14, 2005, at 00:51, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
> I don't know much about American political slang (I'm in the middle of
> ten
> thousand years of parking tickets, some divine punishment from God),
> so I
> turned  to the expert source. That would be Oxford University Press
> and HATCHET
> JOBS AND  HARDBALL: THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL SLANG
> (2004),
> edited by  Grant Barrett. "Third rail of American politics" is not
> there!! (In
> fairness,  Grant has been spending late nights all year on
> _www.barrypopik.com_
> (http://www.barrypopik.com) . Oh, I jest!)

Don't be a jerk, Barry.

Grant Barrett