Sentences with phrase «circular firing squad»

In school food services, a kind of circular firing squad exists where everybody blames everybody else for the horrible quality of the food kids eat, but nobody is really to blame because they're all «dedicated» and «working hard.»

Rather than commit to the usual circular firing squad, the Democrats in the area have rallied around Bramson, a former state assemblyman.

We should be mercilessly exposing this farce instead of assembling the traditional circular firing squad.»

The daylight saving discount - orama, meanwhile, represents the reality Macy's is struggling to transcend — a circular firing squad where big retailers that offer very similar products can lure shoppers only by slashing their prices.

The circular firing squad was already forming on Tuesday, as organizations like Express Scripts, a PBM, circulated their one - pagers to Hill staff.

Eliminators — luckily for Wisconsin, the CFP top 10 is a circular firing squad of hellfire, brimstone, and mutually assured destruction.

Noting that «There is no greater voice against Republican candidates than this Republican candidate,» the filmmaker argues that a carefully considered vote for Romney can «keep this circular firing squad of jerkos alive.»

«I don't think the circular firing squad helps.»

His jockeying could turn New York into a circular firing squad with Gov. Cuomo obviously poised to run; plus Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has been relentlessly raising money this summer; plus State AG Eric Schneiderman, who has friends in Hollywood, where Norman Lear has hosted fund - raisers for him.

Free speech must not become a circular firing squad.

Nat described a circular firing squad involving FERC, NRC, DEC, and the EPA diffusing the blame by saying the others had approved the project.

(The NYS GOP is nothing if not a circular firing squad.)

Klein has compared his former Democratic colleagues to a «circular firing squad,» and they have in turn likened him to a petulant child.

Finally, while there's plenty of bad blood between Klein and the mainstream Democrats — he's backed primary challengers against some of them, and denounced them as «clowns» and a «circular firing squad» — Stewart - Cousins and her top lieutenants knew that winning a clear majority this year without Klein's members would be a steep if not impossible task.

On the other hand, I've been around a long time and I've seen Democrats win a majority and immediately form a circular firing squad, proving once again that they are not capable of ruling.

One writer on a popular Facebook page said that «on Tuesday the public was invited to watch a circular firing squad» given that any legislator who voted to oppose Day would be politically dead at the next election.

«The Democrats, they love to have this circular firing squad,» McAuliffe said.

And we sure as hell can not afford this circular firing squad in the face of what I believe is an enemy force.

While citing the groups» progress in some states, the Heartland Institute's Guldenschuh posed the hard question: «[C] an leaders within the movement coordinate their efforts and cooperate with each other» to win an Article V convention, «or will the movement devolve into a circular firing squad as unfortunately happens all too often among conservative groups?»

Second, they have to face the prospect that the circular firing squad that is their nominating process will so wound all their potential presidential candidates, and / or produce one that is unelectable, that four - to - eight more years of a regulation - writing administration is in their near future.

Yet, with all this mental firepower, when I read the comments, I'm essentially looking at a circular firing squad.

Have we instead been a part of a circular firing squad that has only made it easier for these outside forces to undermine judicial independence?