As for Mrs. Clinton, her vote shows her to be an extremist, to the left even of the Democratic Party. As New York’s other senator might say, she has drifted far outside the mainstream and is headed for an iceberg, and if she doesn’t stop rearranging the deck chairs before she finds herself in the fishbowl of a presidential campaign, she will have to row and wade frantically just to avoid sinking into the quicksand of a watery grave.
James Taranto, regarding Hillary Clinton voting against the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts.
Really, I expect better prose from James — first the Titanic metaphor, then a fishbowl, then rowing and wading, followed by quicksand?