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I love this. From Politico: [Gary Bauer:] “The other side does not agonize about whether they are going to give a Republican Supreme Court nominee a difficult time, they just do it.” Conservatives remember Sen. Ted Kennedy’s ferocious attack on “Robert Bork’s America,” the pubic-hair-on-the-Coke-can humiliations visited upon Clarence Thomas and the way that Samuel Alito’s wife cried after Sen. Lindsey Graham recounted the Democrats’ charges against her husband. Echoing a widely held conservative belief, the Heritage Foundation’s Michael Franc says the two sides just do things differently. “Liberal senators come to a battle over judicial nominations armed with submachine guns,” he said, “and conservatives come with pen knives.”
A more accurate analogy isn't quickly coming to me. Maybe: Right-wing senators come to a battle over judicial nominations (and everything else) armed with pen knives, and Harry Reid comes to a battle armed with a talking point, saying, "We really hope to be stabbed by less than 40 of those pen knives." Nah, I need something better than that. Can you help come up with the right analogy? (After posting below, you can also send to the author of this Politico piece: dLibit@politico.com) UPDATE: Winner so far, Notorious P.A.T.: The Republicans come to battle with a gun, and Harry Reid says "well, I don't want to seem too partisan" and gives them his gun.
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