"This issue is stuck in political quicksand when it's really cut and dried."

These are problems that have been mired for years in Albany's political quicksand.

Ms. Swanson would not be drawn into political quicksand.

We appear to be dithering and posturing and slowly disintegrating into the political quicksand.

But other issues on which there is apparent agreement could still become mired in political quicksand.

What foreign investor would want to sink his money into that kind of political quicksand?

Or it could be political quicksand that could quickly drag him under.

He will have to lead the Administration through the political quicksand of debate on a middle-class tax cut advocated by the new Republican Congressional majority.

The last thing this country wanted was to be pulled into another hostile, unfamiliar landscape or more political quicksand.

Until precise steps are taken to resolve all three issues, the design process will continue to sink deeper and deeper into political quicksand.