Hyperbole

From the Gallup Independent Monday:

U.S. Interior Department Secretary Gale Norton was characterized Monday as a 21st Century reincarnation of 19th Century U.S. Army Gen. George Armstrong Custer.

The comparison came during the latest update [at the Navajo Nageezi Chapter House] of the largest class action lawsuit in American history. …

Lead lawyer Dennis Gingold told a reporter, “She’s worse (than Custer) and should be given the same treatment.” …

Gingold predicted, “We know the government will violate the injunction,” saying the court can then take the trust operation away from the administration and put it into a receivership.

This would be Norton’s Little Bighorn, as the department would lose control of Indian trust functions.