A Butte of a Phrase

[Matthew Gordon]

no doubt a bilingually sly reference to their tendency to "table" matters
rather than proceed to a vote?


On 2/4/08 11:39 AM, "Doug Harris" <cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET> wrote:

> An editorial in today's NYT )"Partying On" includes
> in the third paragraph a description of the House
> Ethics Committee as "a committee that usually sits
> mute as a mesa."
> A butte of a phrase, one might say! (But you've gotta
> wonder what the writer was meaning to convey.)
> Googled, it shows up only once -- as cited above!
>
> (the other) doug
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