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(Click for frequent words.) 53 Elena Kagan confirmation hearings 51 procedural wrangling 49 partisan squabbling 49 partisan recriminations 49 cloture votes 49 Bork nomination 49 intraparty battle 49 partisan finger pointing 48 GOP stalling tactics 47 Partisan bickering 47 dipping crosscourt forehand 47 Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings 47 stalement 46 intraparty battles 45 intraparty warfare 45 Norm Coleman Al Franken 45 fiercely partisan 44 bipartisan comity 44 rhetorical jabs 44 congressional recess 44 partisan acrimony 44 Mukasey confirmation hearings 44 intraparty feud 44 lamented partisan bickering 44 bitterly partisan 44 quorum busting 44 Partisan rancor 44 procedural morass 44 Partisan wrangling 44 senate democrats 44 intraparty squabble 43 partisan sniping 43 internecine squabbling 43 partisan wrangling 43 judicial confirmations 43 partisan squabbles 43 cloture motions 42 invoked cloture 42 Partisan gridlock 42 overcome procedural hurdle 42 Bayh disillusionment 42 Hoyer Murtha 42 Blumenauer Y 42 intraparty contests 42 Lawmakers haggled 42 hyperpartisanship 42 rancorous partisanship 42 stalemate 42 intraparty bickering 42 Harper prorogued Parliament 42 Monserrate expulsion 41 hugfest 41 grand bargainers 41 newcomer Ned Lamont 41 emir Sheik Sabah 41 Specter defection 41 congressman Richard Pombo 41 midterm election 41 Al Franken Norm Coleman 41 Leader Capri Cafaro 41 widespread voter apathy 41 backroom wheeling 41 cloture vote 41 monthlong recess 41 Dem ocrats 41 Special Envoy Scott Gration 41 invoking cloture 41 hardliner Mahmood Ahmadinejad 41 preelection 41 seemingly interminable 41 stalling tactics 41 telegenic Palin 41 bitter recriminations 41 Robert Bork nomination 41 Democratically controlled 40 Republican delaying tactics 40 Catholic UDEUR 40 offered angry denouncements 40 Speaker Fabian Núñez 40 Rehnquist presided 40 partisan rancor 40 rancorous 40 Libertarian Kenn Gividen 40 nominaton 40 legislative logjams 40 shifted rightward 40 repeated stalemates 40 procedural maneuvers 40 dawdling pace 40 midterm elections 40 horsetrading 40 Leader Mitch McConnell 40 Alito confirmation hearings 40 Lincoln Chafee RR.I. 40 midterm shellacking 40 presidental nominee 40 noncontroversial nominees 40 HEALTH CARE SUMMIT IDEAS 40 monthslong impasse 40 blended Congresses 40 squabbling factions 40 McCourts divorce 40 Testy exchanges 40 maneuverings 40 Reichert Burner 40 Midterm elections 40 partisan bickering 40 Acrimonious 40 Democrats caucused 40 Daschle Thune 39 Kabuki dance 39 Boxer Fiorina 39 DFLer Al Franken 39 repudiations 39 Cloture 39 Polisario Front guerrillas 39 headshakes 39 WHITE HOUSE WATCH 39 rousing standing ovations 39 tepidness 39 Demo crats 39 influence peddling scandals 39 Leo Ribuffo history 39 stalemates 39 gaveling 39 filibustered nominees 39 gubernatorial vetoes 39 frontrunner Rudy Giuliani 39 Demcorats 39 incriminations 39 Bomas III 39 preinaugural 39 strategist Eric Woolson 39 emir dissolved parliament 39 hysterical outbursts 39 WGA AMPTP 39 nominee Dede Scozzafava 39 DeGette Y 39 nonconfidence motion 39 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick 39 hasty retreat bowing 39 anti climactically 39 nominee Walter Mondale 38 elec tions 38 Recess appointments 38 voter apathy inexcusable 38 anticlimatic 38 challenger Al Franken 38 unyielding partisanship 38 Lebanon feuding factions 38 intraparty squabbles 38 challenger Pat Toomey 38 Easter recess 38 lieutenant governorship 38 partisan gridlock 38 Democratically controlled Legislature 38 postelection 38 Biggert N 38 Rovian tactics 38 Hastert R-Ill. 38 congressional reapportionment 38 Zarella nomination 38 adjourning sine die 38 Geoana Social 38 intraparty 38 partyline vote 38 desultory 38 populist firebrand 38 Justice Priscilla Owen 38 Nominations Sent 38 SIMON Crean 38 bloody factional 38 fifths supermajority 38 Nancy Kaszak 38 downticket 38 lovefests 38 polarized electorate 38 Shadegg R Ariz 38 Chafee Laffey 38 BRIAN NAYLOR 38 By Roger Cleaveland 38 challenger Andrew Romanoff 38 Hashim al Taie 38 partisan obstructionism 38 cleared procedural hurdle 38 backroom politicking 38 IBADAN Nigeria Nigeria 38 protracted 38 deadlock 38 rambling tirade 38 thepolitical 37 DFLer Franken 37 Sen. Vincent Sheehen 37 Lib Dem backbenchers 37 Lame Duck session 37 partisan polarization 37 Senate 37 Armenian genocide resolution 37 reformer Mohammad Khatami 37 factional disputes 37 sharpest jabs 37 impeaching Blagojevich 37 Democrats 37 led caminata 37 hyperpartisan 37 Machiavellian machinations 37 CPAC straw poll 37 instruct conferees 37 seesawing 37 Lame duck sessions 37 eleciton 37 Clan rivalries 37 SAG AMPTP 37 Electorally 37 scandals dogging 37 Bilbray Y 37 Feldblum recess appointment 37 impeach Roh 37 imperiled multibillion dollar 37 Bilirakis Y 37 sine die adjournment 37 Nancy Cordes reports 37 Sen. Arlen Specter D-Pa. 37 flurry 37 Democrats 37 laboring mightily 37 backroom haggling 37 factional bickering 37 lenses fogged 37 partisan skirmishing 37 poisonously partisan 37 Intense thunderstorms 37 Eliot Gersten 37 stony silence underscoring 37 heavily gerrymandered 37 troop withdrawl 37 Democrat Jeanne Shaheen 37 artful dodging 37 Ross Perot siphoned 37 primaries 37 Jean Chrétien Liberals 37 poisonous partisanship 37 unilateral ceasefires 37 rigid ideologue 37 congressional redistricting 37 incessant drumbeat 37 bitterly contested recount 37 Wall Street waffled 37 speechifying 37 NAFTAgate 37 Chafee Whitehouse 37 chubbing 37 Qatari mediated 37 Low voter turnout 37 protracted haggling 37 interparty 37 rancorously 37 bureaucratic wrangling 37 Broun N 37 dour goalless draw 36 smoothest confirmations 36 Confirmation hearings 36 Status Passed 36 exchanged routine unpleasantries 36 bitter internecine 36 bitter partisanship 36 spokeswoman Jessica Towhey 36 Hobbled Dems eager 36 incumbent Barbara Cubin 36 third stringer Hanie 36 senators 36 Republicans 36 FLORIDA Marco Rubio 36 MaryAlice Erickson 36 procedural motions 36 Pluto undoing 36 decennial redistricting 36 tightly contested 36 Tandja dissolved parliament 36 debates 36 nail bitingly close 36 veto override 36 Beltway conventional wisdom 36 politically fraught 36 forthing 36 Speaker Herb Wesson 36 Judge Karon Bowdre 36 heightened sectarian tensions 36 temporized 36 mutual recrimination 36 courtroom theatrics 36 independents caucusing 36 deepening unpopularity 36 Edwards DN.C. 36 Steve Singiser 36 voter disaffection 36 Repub licans 36 incessant bickering 36 Judge Rizgar Amin 36 interpellations 36 Cilizza 36 Papandreou Socialists 36 Judge Pietro Caccialanza 36 flaring tempers 36 strategist Evan Stavisky 36 lame duck 36 Previous truces 36 airstrikes artillery barrages 36 Minnesota goalie Niklas 36 CORDES 36 intraparty fights 36 Obamian 36 tortuous negotiations 36 Midterm Elections 36 rancor 36 stalwart Barbara Boxer 36 Subplots abound 36 needless partisanship 36 rhetorical crossfire 36 woman chastising Barletta 36 Orwellian doublethink 36 banning judicial filibusters 36 partial dissents 36 unseat Craddick 36 withering barrage 36 nominee Vincent Sheheen 36 talkathon 36 gripping catharsis 36 anticlimactic 36 Disclose Act 36 feigning indignation 36 razor thin majorities 36 demurrals 36 Speaker Denny Hastert 36 fractious 36 nonconfidence 36 Demcrats 36 incumbent Norm Coleman 36 proceeded haltingly 36 battleground ridings 36 Bunning filibuster 36 repeated rejections 36 veto overrides 36 Sestak Toomey 36 Democratic 36 Don Lehe 36 procedural maneuver 36 award delegates proportionally 36 dealmaking 36 Hotly contested 36 weeklong recess 36 expel Monserrate 36 congres sional 36 Sandy Isenberg 36 blatant gerrymandering 36 overriding vetoes 36 Beltway pundits 36 dueling rallies 35 GONYEA 35 bipartisanship 35 occasional flurries 35 overt politicking 35 adjourn sine die 35 Hardline conservatives 35 Quebec byelections 35 Sens. Bob Jauch 35 Redistricting Subcommittee 35 lawmaking 35 forths 35 filibuster 35 Prosser Kloppenburg 35 USA TODAY Fredreka Schouten 35 #.# BRIEFING.COM 35 dueling summations 35 consultant Ron Bonjean 35 nominee Alexi Giannoulias 35 virtually impenetrable phalanx 35 verbal salvos 35 bipartisan coalitions 35 incumbent Arlen Specter 35 Gubernatorial Primary 35 rookie Brad Halsey 35 verbal missteps 35 Democrat Nancy Boyda 35 LIASSON 35 errant groundstrokes 35 Aderholt Y 35 skirmishing 35 judicial nominations 35 wise Latina remark 35 lieutenant governor presides 35 whipped forehand 35 backroom machinations 35 presidential 35 Democrat Ciro Rodriguez 35 Post Chris Cillizza 35 stemwinder 35 Feuding Lebanese factions 35 sharply worded showdown 35 sketch recreating 35 lame duck session 35 unattended technicality 35 adjournment sine die 35 Wonkbook 35 Election Day 35 visceral antipathy 35 Troopergate probe 35 NPR David Welna 35 Bonusgate investigation 35 Democrat Frank Kratovil 35 Martinites 35 Republican Keith Fimian 35 Post Dana Milbank 35 thunderous oratory 35 sheer exhaustion 35 gunmaker immunity bill 35 Joementum 35 SCHUMER Well 35 incumbent Jon Corzine 35 bitter intraparty 35 Bilirakis N 35 Democrat Roxanne Conlin 35 Flemish separatists 35 archconservative Tea Party 35 protracted wrangling 35 This mindless paralyzing 35 Miers confirmation hearings 35 midterm elections loom 35 Homolka pardon 35 childish bickering 35 Stronach defection 35 Majority Leader Harry Reid 35 president Remy Beauregard 35 machinations 35 abruptly adjourned 35 lieutentant governor 35 preconvention 35 ethnically divided Bosnia 35 Filibustering 35 Stephane Dion Liberals 35 caucuses 35 faithless electors 35 Bork hearings 35 talkathons 35 rigidly ideological 35 verbal swipes 35 pricklier Rumsfeld testified 35 frenetic 35 fingerpointing 35 concerted fightback 35 Times Jeff Zeleny 35 bitterly contested 35 filibustering 35 Democratsâ € ™ 35 Grit MPs 35 Dice K mania 35 amid bitter recriminations 35 circuslike atmosphere 35 backroom dealings 35 bitter recrimination 35 desperation heaves 35 Representative Joe Sestak 35 pro tem Darrell Steinberg 35 Blue Jays Jesse Litsch 35 overhit forehand 35 impeaching Sanford 35 shamnesty 35 hastily convening 35 slamfest 35 challenger Christine O'Donnell 35 Jack Abramoff scandal 35 Russ Feingold D Wis 35 Speaker Armond Budish 35 trounced Abbas Fatah 35 Starter Derek Lowe 35 incumbent Gruening 35 Speaker Naifeh 35 withering criticisms 35 Yearly Kos Convention 35 Ian Paisley DUP 35 Altmire Y 35 Republicans reacted skeptically 35 patently undemocratic 35 Craddick Ds 35 wavering moderates 35 cloture motion 35 lingering mistrust 35 minister Yasar Yakis 35 Represenatives 35 monthslong 35 Alito dissents 35 hyper partisanship 35 Senate conferees 35 kabuki dance 35 substantive 35 Trump flirtation 35 minister Betty Bigombe 35 Chairman Duf Sundheim 35 fairly uneventful 35 Rival factions 35 outlasted Fabrice Santoro 35 SUNO UNO merger 35 successfully filibustered 35 hopeful Rudy Giuliani 35 obstructionist tactics 35 Bilbray N 34 Outnumbered Republicans 34 profound irresponsibility 34 Progressive Anthony Pollina 34 Prime Minister Ahmed Korei 34 accusatory rhetoric 34 Micah Richards header 34 Ottawa Matt Carkner 34 Zelaya overthrow 34 Potomac Primaries 34 spokeswoman Carrie Giddins 34 Throne Speeches 34 Shad Plank 34 Tipsarevic fended 34 Thomas Suddes 34 Sotomayor confirmation hearings 34 effectively sidetracking 34 shellackings 34 mutual recriminations 34 statehouses nationwide 34 angry denunciations 34 ended anticlimactically 34 hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu 34 N.Am 34 Kwan curtsied 34 Post Dan Balz 34 gallant fightback 34 seemingly intractable conflict 34 invective laced 34 cringe eliciting 34 subcommittee chairmanships 34 clerk Bob Balink 34 dickering 34 negotiators 34 whipsaw 34 Jeffords defection gave 34 factional feuding 34 lone holdout juror 34 legislative 34 Cazayoux Jenkins 34 filibusters 34 Representative Doc Hastings 34 Judge Leslie Southwick 34 Confederate flag flap 34 Culver Branstad 34 Dardens mistakenly showed 34 Libby commutation 34 Carolyn McGinn Sedgwick 34 Governor Elbridge Gerry 34 fragile truces 34 Props aplenty 34 3 #/#-day preliminary 34 cybersex scandal 34 apportioning delegates 34 openly gay nonincumbent 34 Parliamentarian Alan Frumin 34 Specter Sestak 34 quarreling factions 34 Ramsey Blountville auctioneer 34 Speaker Shap Smith 34 Iowa Caucuses 34 procedural roadblock 34 Qatari brokered 34 denouements 34 filibuster proof majorities 34 incumbent Suzi Oppenheimer 34 congressional bargainers 34 ATHENS Greece Greeks 34 Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif. 34 Unflustered 34 challenger Jonathan Tasini 34 Senate Judiciary Committees 34 confirmation hearings 34 George Ceresia 34 designate Eric Holder 34 acrimonious 34 Ogsbury 34 incumbent Casey Cagle 34 former dictator Efrain 34 rightward tilt 34 Fernandez Peronist party 34 lamented Dick Armey 34 haphazard piecemeal 34 approves impeaching Blagojevich 34 Gubernatorial Races 34 Thad Beyle political 34 Democrat Dina Titus 34 grillings 34 plenary debates 34 moderates 34 unwieldy coalitions 34 anticlimactic ending 34 sleights 34 Democratic Farmer Laborite 34 nerve jangling finale 34 Comp Lite 34 rhetorical posturing 34 cravenness 34 furors 34 massive multihulled boats 34 both Comedy Cental 34 Jacksonian era 34 SUE STURGIS blogs 34 Democratically 34 Kucinch 34 obstructionism 34 bloviation 34 factional squabbling 34 testiest 34 whirlwind 34 nonbinding resolution opposing 34 wrangling 34 Decerega issued 34 climbdowns 34 congressional 34 lameduck session 34 bipartisanism 34 testy exchange 34 bipartisan lawmaking 34 Merovingian monarchy 34 Poizner Whitman 34 replace Patricia Clarey 34 Obamaâ 34 challenger Jon Runyan 34 Parnarauskis 34 nominee Pat Toomey 34 midterm 34 Jimmy Abdou 34 Mediated talks 34 noncontroversial bills 34 strident rhetoric 34 repeated adjournments 34 redistricting 34 avoiding spike strips 34 Sino US textile 34 postelection lame duck 34 Statewide voter turnout 34 AFL CIO Richard Trumka 34 infighting 34 cacuses won 34 conciliatory tones 34 Aderholt N 34 procedural 34 teary goodbyes 34 los Azulones 34 racially tinged campaigns 34 FXstreet.com Córdoba EUR USD 34 brass knuckle politics 34 Gejdenson 34 mild rebukes 34 factional bloodletting 34 Strom Thurmond segregationist 34 episodic reruns 34 Capitol Hill 34 Dalai envoys 34 Solomonese 34 Lien Nationalist Party 34 defeatist rhetoric 34 BEIJING Envoys 34 Democrat Betty Castor 34 FHA Modernization Act 34 Mukasey confirmation 34 Voter discontent 34 By Ron Chimelis 34 Chairwoman Diane Tebelius 34 consultant Eric Sondermann 34 Speaker Kenneth Marende 34 widespread disillusionment 34 Caucus goers 34 slaves Hollaway 34 similarly mysterious Flashforward 34 nominating conventions 34 Recesses 34 muster quorum 34 Allowing naps 34 Republican Charles Djou 34 Heated rhetoric 34 dilatory tactics 34 appoint conferees 34 Gillibrand DioGuardi 34 Jaguars lateraled 34 Bonusgate scandal 34 lengthy 34 Assemblywoman Scozzafava 34 lieutenants Steny Hoyer 33 Lengthened hours 33 defund ACORN 33 simmering feuds 33 renominations 33 preinaugural festivities 33 fiscally conservative Democrats 33 monumentally disappointing 33 chairwoman Margaret Mukahanana 33 interclan 33 cliffhanger 33 Governorships 33 New Hampshirites 33 tardy arrival 33 hanging chad controversy 33 pollster Pete Brodnitz 33 presidentials 33 filibuster proof margin 33 emollient tone 33 unilluminating 33 castigations 33 nationalist rhetoric 33 remaining uncommitted superdelegates 33 procedural niceties 33 Republican Brian Bilbray 33 deliberations 33 maneuvering 33 resounding nay 33 pre buttal 33 stem winder 33 morale sapping defeats 33 veepstakes 33 harsh crackdowns 33 Egyptian brokered ceasefire 33 unseasonably balmy weather 33 gubernatorial 33 Premier Yves Leterme 33 Hawthi rebels 33 fortuitously timed 33 Comrie backhander 33 ideological brinksmanship 33 rancorous debate 33 slapfest 33 grindingly slow 33 artfully worded 33 fitful 33 capitulatory 33 Fierce infighting 33 party centrists rebelled 33 winded speeches 33 Progressive Conservative MPPs 33 partisan gamesmanship 33 Parliament prorogued 33 deregulatory agenda 33 demagoging 33 Pollster Floyd Ciruli 33 Calif gov 33 intraparty disputes 33 finger pointing 33 Potomac Primary 33 strategist Steve Schale 33 turncoat sellout 33 Demorats 33 self righteous fury 33 seeming contradictions 33 Speaker Franco Marini 33 whiplash inducing 33 NLD boycotted 33 struggled inconclusively 33 uneasily awaited 33 gerrymandered districts 33 foul mouthed Blagojevich 33 Rajoy hammering Zapatero 33 brass knuckle tactics 33 BBC James Coomarasamy 33 WELNA 33 bungling incompetence 33 saber rattling rhetoric 33 Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer 33 Webco tubing products 33 shuttle diplomacy 33 governing Progressive Conservatives 33 backroom dealmaking 33 Unanimous consent 33 netted forehand volley 33 bureaucratic snafus 33 Countdown Keith Olbermann 33 Carl Hulse 33 novice Ned Lamont 33 indirect barb 33 daylong 33 Miers withdraws 33 Charlottetown Accord 33 insufficiently forceful 33 irresolvable conflict 33 recalcitrance 33 excruciating 33 southern secessionists 33 troop withdrawal timetables 33 President Barack Obamaā 33 testy exchanges 33 acrimony 33 speaker Franco Marini 33 incumbent Abel Maldonado 33 Devery Henderson fumbled 33 goalless stalemate 33 Noisy scenes 33 Uncomfortably 33 lopsided 33 overtake Coakley 33 cliffhanging 33 Libertarian Eric Schansberg 33 dictator Efrain Rios Montt 33 grew testier 33 Chairman Mohammadmian Soomro 33 Midfielder Pirlo 33 Bennet Romanoff 33 fellow strugglers West Brom 33 arguers 33 Chair Ken Mehlman 33 Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi 33 self styled reformers 33 challenger Kristi Noem 33 Solicitor General Eduardo Nachura 33 razor thin majority 33 shrill denunciations 33 interminable 33 Akayev ouster 33 bitterly fought 33 Ms. Radnofsky 33 inconvenience Southerners 33 en masse resignations 33 sullen silence 33 Unfinished Portrait 33 Weithmans yard 33 procedural roadblocks 33 lengthening shadows 33 pyrrhic victories 33 Politico.com Politics '# 33 Leonid Roshal pediatrician 33 hearings 33 internecine fighting 33 Democratics 33 disaffected Sunni minority 33 Granholm DeVos 33 rubberstamp parliament 33 Ignagni readily 33 unicameral Legislature 33 Strategic Initiatives Political 33 Sam Heldman 33 Speaker Newt Gingrich R-Ga. 33 netting backhand 33 nail biting 33 substitute Jiri Jarosik 33 sacrosanct monthlong 33 invoke cloture 33 partisanship 33 bipartisanship cratered earlier 33 liberal judicial activism 33 gavelled 33 Alan Greenspan retires 33 ping ponging 33 steep selloffs 33 Rancorous 33 ominous rumblings 33 CSPAN 33 intraparty squabbling 33 perfunctory 33 strategist Howard Wolfson 33 CCAGW rated 33 reelections 33 Democractic 33 Businessman Herman Cain 33 al Aqsa intifada 33 Premier Bettino Craxi 33 Judge Cebull 33 predecessor Yukio Hatoyama 33 Previous ceasefires 33 impeached Roh 33 election 33 brinksmanship 33 antiestablishment message 33 dueling visions 33 staffer Dan Maffei 33 Ron Chimelis 33 procedural wrangles 33 Ndri Romaric 33 Allen macaca 33 exasperated sighs 33 recaptured Samarra 33 Slaneysiders 33 aye votes 33 somewhat anticlimactic 33 Statehouses 33 NPR Mara Liasson 33 nervy moments 33 Chair Dick Wadhams 33 tortuous 33 OLYMPIA WA N3 33 leadoff Iowa caucuses 33 Charlottetown accords 33 Senator HILLARY CLINTON 33 uncharacteristically silent 33 postelection tangle 33 Senator Don Nickles 33 Veto Session 33 congressmembers 33 recanvassing 33 Republican 33 substitute Tamir Cohen 33 caucusers 33 shrill rhetoric 33 Nixonian stonewalling 33 Unrelenting violence 33 Impeached Illinois Gov. 33 Bunning relents 33 Plame cause celebre 33 KMT chairmanship 33 Iowa precinct caucuses 33 flared tempers 33 Precisely choreographed 33 ideologically divided 33 politician Saeed Hajjarian 33 Impeachment proceedings 33 statutory paygo 33 Most Sunnis boycotted 33 analyst Harvey Kronberg 33 Toomey Sestak 33 diplomatic minuet 33 Democats 33 vociferousness 33 Largely overlooked 33 seeming invincibility 33 grows shakier jeopardizing 33 Zvonareva netted forehand 33 Kwame Holman 33 transplants D' Zhana 33 Mediscare tactics 33 Galivants Ferry Stump 33 Linas Marcoussis peace 32 electoral drubbings 32 rightward lurch 32 Luntz memo 32 Moderate Dems 32 Harried commuters 32 Evenly split 32 closely contested 32 heavyweight prizefight 32 deliberation 32 GOP'ers 32 Clinton feeler 32 courtlier #th 32 defender Manuel Pasqual 32 caucus 32 superlobbyist Jack Abramoff 32 deadlocked 32 Democrat Dave Loebsack 32 eliminate judicial filibusters 32 excruciatingly 32 hopelessly stalemated 32 presi dency 32 Townspeople weary 32 Democrat Betsy Markey 32 Intraparty 32 concurrences 32 ruling Peronist 32 analyst Stu Rothenberg 32 internecine bloodshed 32 Voters 32 ideological polarization 32 recrimination 32 antiwar sentiment 32 Majority Leader Frist 32 speaker Omurbek Tekebayev 32 cobble together coalition 32 cloture 32 slugger homerless 32 shameless demagoguery 32 contentious 32 filibuster delaying tactic 32 substitute Massimo Maccarone 32 Nene dunk 32 attritional affair 32 unbearably tense 32 scheduling snafus 32 Ram Setu controversy 32 Democrat Creigh Deeds 32 utter pandemonium 32 Kathleen Troia McFarland 32 Distrust lingers 32 shockingly listless 32 Alito nomination 32 slow handclap 32 incumbent Marilyn Musgrave 32 beltway pundits 32 Joel Pinas 32 Heated arguments 32 bipartisan 32 scolds Dems 32 tensely awaited 32 bitterly divisive 32 Minority Leader Harry Reid 32 bare knuckled brawl 32 roaring gales 32 ideological rifts 32 challenger Darcy Burner 32 Moran Tiahrt 32 rabid partisanship 32 ulcer inducing 32 stalemated