We leap into humanitarian interventions, and get bloodied in Somalia.
Their Tea Party wing wants to reopen the budget deal forged with Democrats after Republicans got bloodied by threatening to block an increase in the debt limit.
"I don't think that there was anybody in the oil and gas business that didn't get bloodied up.
The melee bore the marks of storied New York nightclub brawls of yore: star rappers were involved, egos were bruised and revelers got bloodied.
My shoes got bloodied, and I really got scared," he said over the phone from Tehran where he had recently returned.
Parker's role was to get bloodied with dignity by the popular young Republican president so the Democrats could regroup for another day.
You've got cool blondes at art-museum openings, you've got bloodied men at Vietnam War demonstrations, you've got women flashing their boobs, and somebody in Central Park obviously off his head running through the park naked".
Supporting the insupportable was part of an image-making strategy, a demonstration to the Chinese that, as the Pentagon Papers said, the United States was "willing to keep promises, be tough, take risks, get bloodied and hurt the enemy badly".
Speaking of the lessons he had learned from his front-row seat, he said of politics, "You'll get bloodied, and sometimes it's tough, but there are moments when you're on the mountain peak".
