But doing either would have made the tax cut look more generous than was deemed politically expedient, so the problems were put off.

Crittenden's support of a new election was both popular and politically expedient.

To be sure, his endorsement is the politically expedient thing to do.

"Judges should not base their decisions on what is politically expedient at the time."

"We did not wait until it became politically expedient to answer the call for fairness and justice in our immigration laws."

That may be politically expedient to sell one's ideas but still not true.

Borrowing may be politically expedient; it is, however, wrong, from both an economic and moral point of view.

For decades, most states have taken the easy, politically expedient approach.

"If we continue to do what's politically expedient," he said, "we'll never solve the problem."

That's the politically expedient but also the fiscally responsible way out.