An animal caught by its leg in a trap finally gnaws it off to get free...

[undeterred]

Is that what we have to do to save ourselves?

[lonestarnot]

1. eeek. poor little animal.

Alot.

[Occulus]

15. But the courage...

And the will...

Kudos to the "poor little animal." I doubt I could do it myself.

But then there's the guy who sawed off his arm after a boulder fell on it while he was hiking.

http://hike.mountainzone.com/2003/news/html/030502_amputate-arm.html

[Gman]

2. That's how I lost my arm

real drunk one night, real ugly woman.

[lonestarnot]

11. Off point, and off arm.

You be funny Gman.

[Quantess]

3. What's the proverbial "leg" to be chewed off?

I need help with your analogy.

[Skidmore]

6. I would venture that the "leg" is the party leadership who

do everything in their power to undermine the nation and the party. Lose them. It will be bloody, but lose them. They are doing too much damage now.

[Terran1212]

8. I'd love to throw out Hilary, Pelosi, Reid, etc

Have Conyers majority leader House, Feingold in Senate.

[undeterred]

7. Maybe its the illusion that we can fix this country via elections

and gradual reforms and trying to work within the system. Maybe if we don't do something a lot more drastic than that very soon we won't survive as the country that we still identify with.

[Terran1212]

9. That's what a lot of us think, I think

[undeterred]

14. Yeah, I still hope its not true.

But I am beginning to fear that it is.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. That's basically what "cut and run" -- KKKarl's latest canard --

really means. A ship's anchor gets fouled on the sea floor and the ship can't get away from danger (storm, pirates, etc.) unless they cut the anchor line and run (meaning sail with the wind - the fastest way to escape). The alternative is stay and sink. So metaphorically it's a lot like an animal chewing off its foot to get free from a trap.

[undeterred]

13. Well in the case of Iraq we should just get the hell out

There is nothing for us to win there, no face to save, just loss upon loss.

[Minnesota Libra]

5. We will not only have to gnaw the leg but the head and hands too..........

.....before we will get free of this bunch of criminals.

[undeterred]

10. I'm thinking I might already regret my choice of metaphor

:blush:

[Minnesota Libra]

12. It describes what needs to happen to rid the country.................

....of this horrible menace than anything else I've seen recently.:shrug: