Possible Clues:

• Make excessive demands on old green chopper
• Place too great a burden on
• Strain observable — needing a kiss
• Way to exhaust the economy?
• Make excessive demands on public before a vote
• Demand too much of public ahead of a vote
• Pressure unduly apparent — a mark of democracy?
• Work too hard, getting cross after obvious answer
• Ask too much of
• Burden too heavily