Word: leash
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...Eileen Blackmer, whose Tea Party group in West Central Florida is called the Pinellas Patriots, the issue is trust. She doesn't have any left for the federal government. The answer, therefore, is a smaller government on a very short constitutional leash, with less spending and balanced budgets. Blackmer was galvanized to action by the debate over health care. "I read the entire bill, page after page after page," she said recently. "Everything's 'A committee will be formed.' We do need health care reform, but there are other things to do to control those costs. Quit making backroom deals...
...experiencing throughout the deployment was becoming nearly total. "First Platoon had become insane," declared platoon-member Sergeant John Diem flatly. "What does an infantry rifle platoon do? It destroys. That's what it's trained to do. Now turn that 90 degrees to the left, and let slip the leash, and it becomes something monstrous. It's not even aware of what it's doing...