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He is nothing more than Obama's hatchett man, a young skinny Dick Cheney.
Updated: WH, Senate Dems: No plans to use 'reconciliation' for health care 2009
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There has been no more vicious hatchett man in the Republican Party over the years.
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And its kind of ironic when you here conservatives talk about socialism when their own party partakes in socialistic policies such as broadcasting controlled messages to fit the party agenda regardless of liberal or conservative. terry hatchett
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Actually, many of the millions of people who watched her TV show must have been hard-core Maria fans to enjoy watching that hatchett-faced hair-fountain every week, so the endorsement could have an effect.
Do you give a damn who Maria Shriver endorses? Ann Althouse 2008
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Some years back Ohio State hired a Metzenbaum staffer as his reward for running the hatchett job on Justice Thomas.
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Chris Wallace sold his soul to Fox and the repugs like the countless other “journalists” who do their hatchett jobs daily.
Think Progress » FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News 2006
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All I ask is that some of you who read this will please consider the hatchett job being done on Giffords and ask yourself why?
Archive 2006-06-01 2006
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We persuaded them first to come peaceably, not to distroy them presently, and if they would not condescend then would wee throw away the hatchett and make use of our thunders.
The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin Frederick Jackson Turner 1896
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-- Early this morning we were ordered to prepare for our march, but found the Indians in a worse temper (if possible) than last night, every one having a tomahawk, hatchett or some other instrument of death, and Constantly plundering from the officers their arms & ca this Col'o.
Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858
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Looking over them, knew them albeit quite naked, and their hair standing up, the one being shott through with three boulletts and two blowes of an hatchett on the head, and the other runne thorough in severall places with a sword and smitten with an hatchett.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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