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Appointing Social Security foe Alan Simpson to co-chair the deficit reduction committee, they say, is asking the fox to guard the hen-house.
Elaine Dutka: Barack Obama and the Changing Political Landscape Elaine Dutka 2010
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Appointing Social Security foe Alan Simpson to co-chair the deficit reduction committee, they say, is asking the fox to guard the hen-house.
Elaine Dutka: Barack Obama and the Changing Political Landscape Elaine Dutka 2010
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[The FEC is] not like other agencies because you have the charge of the fox guarding the hen-house.
Melanie Sloan: Why Won't President Obama Take on the FEC? Melanie Sloan 2010
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Appointing Social Security foe Alan Simpson to co-chair the deficit reduction committee, they say, is asking the fox to guard the hen-house.
Elaine Dutka: Barack Obama and the Changing Political Landscape Elaine Dutka 2010
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Appointing Social Security foe Alan Simpson to co-chair the deficit reduction committee, they say, is asking the fox to guard the hen-house.
Elaine Dutka: Barack Obama and the Changing Political Landscape Elaine Dutka 2010
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We've let the fox return to the hen-house, smug and emboldened, and have given the hens nothing to defend themselves, other than some limp fox-protection promises and a shotgun with no bullets.
Adam Hanft: "Without Admission of Wrong-Doing" -- The Infuriating Wrist-Slap of JPMorgan Chase Adam Hanft 2011
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Mr Slugbalancer said, everyone knows that we shouldn't hunt foxes because they're lovely, bright-eyed, gentle and pretty little creatures who never harm anything and who live an organic, vegan existence and never slaughter every chicken in a hen-house.
Hunting Ban to be Lifted Dungeekin 2009
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Mr Slugbalancer said, everyone knows that we shouldn't hunt foxes because they're lovely, bright-eyed, gentle and pretty little creatures who never harm anything and who live an organic, vegan existence and never slaughter every chicken in a hen-house.
Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Last night that Spot got into Mr. Harvey's hen-house (Harvey is my next-door neighbour) and killed nineteen of his fancy-bred chickens.
That Spot 2010
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Appointing Social Security foe Alan Simpson to co-chair the deficit reduction committee, they say, is asking the fox to guard the hen-house.
Elaine Dutka: Barack Obama and the Changing Political Landscape Elaine Dutka 2010
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