Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.
When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.