It was the other one, neatly enough, who sounded as though he might be cracking up.
The mainstream right understands it, that's why they go crazy when it looks like someone might be cracking down on far-right militia groups, and so forth.
David Gergen, the dean of the Beltway School of Talking Heads, suggested that Obama's hold on the upper Midwest, a key electoral region, might be cracking.
The play was scheduled to move to New York, and she wrote to the head of the Theatre Guild, her old friend Lawrence Langner, that she thought she might be "cracking up".
But it was not until the past few days -- with signs that the unity of that group might be cracking -- that he agreed to put what one administration official called "meat on the bones" of its offer.
Just when it looked like the bubble might be cracking, that venture capital investment in education was stuck in the doldrums, and that the year in EdTech might end with a whimper, no bang in sight, along comes Knewton to put an exclamation point on an active December.
"His little army embodies the forces that are ready, perhaps, to undermine the facade of stability that I think we all secretly know might be cracking".
Adding to the chaos, two prominent Venezuelan opposition leaders were snatched from their homes by intelligence services Tuesday, a sign that the government might be cracking down amid the spiraling political crisis.
Think of it this way: An inelastic good might be crack cocaine.
All machines can be cracked; you just might be disappointed by what you find inside.
