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If You Can't Beat 'Em, Nuke 'Em
Wielding the Nuclear Option
by Ira Chernus 
 May 17, 2005 
 
Trent Lott and George Lakoff live in very different worlds. But they both understand the power of a good metaphor.

 Lott, the canny politician, knows that the public likes complicated policies best when they are reduced to snappy soundbites. The more complex and controversial the policy, the more compelling the word picture has to be. So when the Republicans set out to foist a complex, controversial policy on the American people -- getting Senate confirmation for every federal judge George W. Bush nominates by denying the Democrats the right to filibuster -- Lott came up with snappiest, most vivid soundbite he could find: "the nuclear option."

 Cast a look

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