"A heartbeat away from the Presidency".

And it's only Sunday.

Next cliche: "Maverick"

Next cliche: "field dress a moose"

And:

Charlie Gibson: "so, you think we may go to war with Russia?"

Sarah (perkie): "perhaps so!"

No way to avoid this one, because it's the reason the prospect of Palin is so horrifying.

If she were a "geography test away," or "a civics test away," or maybe "an SAT away from the presidency," she would not loom as such a specter.

And one I thought was dead:

"if you make guns illegal, only criminal will have guns."

And if evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

"Energized the republican base"

Ha ha!

"Wall St/Main St."

Still going with the OP.

And a new one: "set the bar".

How do these phrases come to be repeated day after day, hour after hour and nobody says anything?

"Commander In Chief Threshold"

Seriously.

My fave this week is "market adjustment".

Well, it's Friday, and they are about to try and bailout George Bush failure, AGAIN.

Not Dow Jones on Wall Street --- Mr. and Mrs. Jones on Main Street.

"Reach across the aisle."