"Palm Sunday Compromise" -- Good Use of the Metaphor

"Calling the bill a 'Palm Sunday Compromise' that will keep" Schiavo alive, House Maj. Leader Tom DeLay (TX) said, "It won't take a miracle to help Terri Schiavo. It will only take the medical care and therapy that all patients deserve." House Speaker Denny Hastert "presided over the three-hour debate, and he quoted Pope John Paul II on the subject of life-sustaining treatments" (Babington and Allen, Washington Post, 3/21).