11.   For two decades, the environmental movement was the political equivalent of apple pie.

12.   Haytaian, the speaker of the Assembly, soon countered with what best can be described as the political equivalent of a written excuse from home.

13.   He has done the political equivalent of an athlete plastering himself with sponsorship logos.

14.   His followers dwindling, his rhetoric getting old, Buchanan is becoming the political equivalent of Prozac.

15.   Instead, the stadium selection process was transformed into an elaborate game of pretend, the political equivalent of a WWF smackdown.

16.   It has been called the political equivalent of opening a Broadway play without rehearsals.

17.   It is the political equivalent of a dismissal motion in criminal court or a request for summary judgment in a civil matter.

18.   It is the political equivalent of hiding under the covers when your parents come into your room.

19.   It was also the political equivalent of a peace conference, and the two agreed to work together.

20.   It is the political equivalent of night-riding.