| They take on this phony-baloney air and end up sending readers straight to the comics. |
| My concern is that the Republican effort is just a smokescreen to incorporate phony-baloney factors into revenue estimates to justify unlimited tax cutting. |
| In Weiner's world, this is how progress is made: one sleek, phony-baloney stage act at a time. |
| We've gotten savvier at spotting these phony-baloney letters. |
| Mr. Ryan knows perfectly well that the most popular tax expenditures will never be repealed but pretends that they all will in order to make his phony-baloney numbers add up. |
| And my feelings about the phony-baloney virtuousness of the journalistic community are similar to his feelings about that phony-baloney virtuousness. |
