The Perils of Backseat Negotiating

We call this the backseat driver problem.

You drive to a nice, dark petting spot, hiding me in the backseat...

I took the backseat, and in front of me I saw something related to a play.

Next thing, Claudette Colvin was in a car seat, backseat of the police car, handcuffed through the windows.

Once I was in New York and got in a cab. I took the backseat, and in front of me I saw something related to a play.

But his administration s persistent failure to address the crisis in Syria effectively, along with its backseat approach in Mali, suggests that such concerted multilateralism was an exception.

New Arab leaders will struggle mightily with the public s rising expectations, and their willingness to get behind a peace process will take a backseat to that struggle.

Cruising random city streets, rocking a drop top Cadillac with a big backseat, packing like 13 brown paper Walmart bags full of loaded mockingbirds, and I'll get everybody.

And although the speech and its content and impact on relations with the region are taking a backseat for the moment, the pressing question on many bloggers' minds is Why Egypt?