If you describe a situation as a “catch-22,” you mean it is an impossible situation because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing. But you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing. There are other idiomatic expressions and related phrases and words that mean the same as “catch-22.” These include words like dilemma, paradox, predicament, quagmire and popular idioms such as chicken-and-egg; damn if you do – damn if you don’t; like a Gordian knot; between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place, just to name some. This is how the seven-man Commission on Elections (Comelec) headed by c…