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He is the proverbial New York sewer rat, cornered and lashing out in a desperate attempt to survive.

Democrats need to draw a line in the proverbial sand and take a strong stand on what they want in exchange for keeping the federal government open.

It may not be a proverbial smoking gun – an undeniable link to wrongdoing that destroys careers or supercharges criminal investigations.

Bowser, though, is caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place.

They could use the same tone and demand the reinstitution of all the funding for their proverbial “kitchen table issues.”