Over the past two years, America has been faced with a seemingly endless torrent of bad news. The often feeble response from Washington brings to mind a popular metaphor among the political chattering class: putting lipstick on a pig.
It means taking a policy failure or bad situation and sprucing it up to make the outlook seem sunnier. That could mean a meaningless nod toward a solution, or just some verbal sleight of hand.
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