The media have legitimized the idea that the way to break out of the political morass is through the use of - what else?

House and Senate Republican leaders met throughout the day with their top lieutenants to devise an escape route from what has become a political morass.

The issue had threatened to become a political morass for all involved, particularly Mr. Giuliani.

The events in Amador Hernandez brought out outlandish positions on all sides, revealing the political morass that Chiapas has become.

Despite political morass and a murky economy, New Jersey is flying high in at least one area: roller coasters.

Today, the vacant land seems less a symbol of urban rebirth than of a bureaucratic and political morass.

It sounded like a court that thought it had the responsibility to chart a path out of a political and legal morass.

It takes a skillful rage for order to make sense of the moral and political morass that was Haiti in the midst of its historic uprising.

Today, Mrs. Kelly may need that shovel to dig herself out of the political morass she has stumbled into.

She found herself wishing more and more for something apocalyptic, to cut cleanly through the political morass that was her life now.