Australia's constitution has been said to lack clarity on the separation of church and state, and its high court has made a murky situation muddy over the past decades, with rulings that have undermined the secular character of the Commonwealth.
But that leaves four states, which badly muddy the situation, notes John Cavanagh, the director of the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal research group in Washington.
Muddying the situation even more, CF is knee-deep in a battle to preserve its own independence.
"But siding with Indonesia on the West Papua issue muddies the situation and undermines the regional solidarity required on issues of regional security and peace".
Further muddying the situation was the Daedalus-like decline of Nortel, which has plummeted 77percentt in the last 12 months amid earnings warnings, layoffs and a limping market for communications stocks.
Samuel J. Tilden of New York, the Democrat, won a majority of the popular votes over Rutherford B. Hayes, an Ohio Republican, but disputes over fraudulent vote-counting practices muddied the situation in the Electoral College and threw the final decision to Congress.
The Republican establishment is as fragmented as the rest of the American elite, and the Party's mandarins first spent a hundred and twenty million dollars backing Jeb Bush's Presidential bid, watched the despised Ted Cruz hire the cutting-edge voter-identification shops, and spread their endorsements around, so muddying the situation that there has been no clear "establishment" candidate at all.
He's not trying to break any laws here, he says, but he does enjoy pointing out how muddy the whole situation is that it illuminates.
