Throughout much of the campaign, those leaders feuded so bitterly over drawing up a new budget that state government threatened to come to a standstill at one point.
With every legal maneuver bitterly fought and drawing headlines, there seems to be no mutually agreeable way for either to undo the ugliness that has been sowed.
In fact, the nomination was so bitterly contested, it drew a Senate roll-call vote, which is unusual for election commission nominees.
Sale, bitterly disappointed after drawing with Newcastle last time out, have recalled the fast-improving Josh Beaumont at No 8, picked Nev Edwards on the wing and turned to the veteran Irish scrum-half Peter Stringer ahead of the Scottish No 9 Chris Cusiter.
If Scotland's recent experience is anything to go by – where there are now two entrenched camps of yes and no voters in the aftermath of the 2014 independence referendum – then the battle lines drawn in a bitterly fought and polarising EU referendum will define our politics for years to come.
Mr. Murtha has drawn much attention this year, first as he bitterly opposed the legislation requiring disclosure of earmarks, then continued his habit of submitting dozens of requests, most benefiting his hometown of Johnstown, Pa.
The irony is that the programme has been drawn up by an inter-ministerial team from the Fidesz government, which has bitterly opposed immigration for the past four years.
Parliament's interest was drawn to Mr. King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, because of the high-profile hearings he has held on the radicalization of Muslim-Americans, some of whom bitterly protested that he was unfairly singling them out.
Around the palace, some residents spoke bitterly of the British presence drawing errant Mahdi Army mortar fire onto their homes.
Although he'd once longed to search the Arctic for the lost Franklin expedition, and thereby to "stand in the white bowl of heaven," now he hides in his library, drawing maps and bitterly reading the accounts of other explorers.
