That is, legislators willing to appropriate the Fund's annual earnings are constrained by the politically suicidal nature of any decrease in the public's dividend.

In fact, it could be politically suicidal for the candidates to put forward a budgetary repair scheme, general or specific.

This swap need not be politically suicidal.

Some of his ideas are good, some indigestible and some politically suicidal.

After drawn out negotiations that nearly ended in a politically suicidal stalemate, it selected a coalition slate.

Congress created the base-closing commission in 1990 as a way to shield itself from decisions that can be politically suicidal.

It would be wrong ethically and suicidal politically, they say.

But Truman won - a reminder that it has by no means always been politically suicidal to stage a contentious and divisive convention.

Even during the Reagan years, when domestic spending slowed, many Republicans considered it politically suicidal to attack seriously the culture of entitlements.

I know that some alternatives, while sensible economically, are suicidal politically.