Cliché Corner   

"Howard Dean has climbed into his own spider hole of denial if he believes that the capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America safer."
Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut

"Spider hole journalism. Are the media a captive audience when it comes to rerunning that video of Saddam Hussein in custody?"
Howard Kurtz on CNN's "Reliable Sources"

"But what if some warp in the cosmic ether has let our spam catch up with the pictures we've been broadcasting for a half-century? We could be digging ourselves a very deep spider hole."
Palm Beach Post

"Why am I really stressing about these cards when the only ones that have made it to my mailbox...[are from] people who have changed so much since I last regularly communicated with them that I wouldn't be able to identify them even if I fell into their spider hole...."
Little Rock's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

"The back seat is the automotive equivalent of a spider hole in Tikrit."
Los Angeles Times

"The writers of such doomsday pieces and the pundits who gave me hell for saying SARS was a mere sniffle compared to the flu are now wearing beards and hiding in spider hole."
Scripps Howard News Service

"Now, if they can only find the spider hole where Osama bin Laden is hiding and the Cubs can win the pennant, all will be right with the world."
Arlington Heights, Illinois' Daily Herald

From hundreds of mentions since December 14, when Saddam Hussein was found in a cellar described as a spider hole