Mixed Metaphor of the Week Award
By Tom Smith
Goes to Tom McClintock, who is not governor of California. He notes in his true but insipidly written piece in the Wall Street Journal today:
These are the two roads diverging in the budget woods and the choice that is made in coming weeks may well determine whether California has the fresh financial start it deserves, or whether the ghost of Mr. Davis' excesses stalks a generation to come.
OK, so the ghost of budget excess is in the woods, but can only follow Arnie down one path and not the other? But going down one of the paths is a fresh start, even though it's the middle of the woods? And the "budget woods"? As in "The budget woods are lovely, dark and deep/ But I have miles to go before a bill emerges from Conference . . . " Ugh and yuk. Maybe the Journal is having sneaky fun at McClintock's expense by letting him publish without heavy editing.
posted by thomas at 12/01/2003 10:45:00 AM
