On the tax cut, a red meat issue for his party's right wing, Mr. Bush set out a figure for how much he wanted, rammed it through the House without even pretending to consult Democrats and gave ground in the Senate only when he had no choice.
Every fourth or fifth bite has a large chunk of fat in it, and it's sort of stringy meat, at least for a red meat.
Mr. Cuomo's prescriptions — as outlined in a 224-page platform — include some interesting long-range proposals and a lot of red meat for angry taxpayers.
In inviting me on his program, Tucker was, I suspect, hoping that I'd become more grist for his particular sector of the right-wing outrage mill, a sort of red meat for the banquet of triviality he serves up daily to a ravenous audience.
The Oracle of Omaha seemed to be a bit of red meat for the giddy often ill-informed CNBC analysts who tried to force him to say what he was actually saying as opposed to dancing like an inept dancer.
It was a mixed message -- on the one hand acknowledging that the cuts were hurting his district, on the other offering a piece of red meat for the conservative base.
"We know there's a lot of desire for red meat, for a real tough policy, but we don't want to come out and blow a lot of steam and rhetoric and not really do anything," said the administration official focused on Sudan.
The AOL Time Warner announcement, which left open who the underwriters would be, was like a giant slab of red meat for hungry dogs wandering in a new issues nuclear winter.
Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz served up a big helping of red meat for his Tea Party base in Washington on Thursday, with a pugilistic speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference CPACConservative Political Action Conference CPAC
