Last year, a stubborn insistence on running a viciously negative presidential, "gotcha" type of campaign cost them the White House.
Now, marginalized in the House and Senate, they stubbornly persist on running a viciously negative, "gotcha" type of opposition against Obama in the hopes of getting the American public to lose confidence in him.
A woman running in the park had been viciously assaulted and left for dead by a marauding "wolf pack," as the gangs of young men roaming the streets and subways had come to be known.
Neither, I suspect, could she explain the pioneer-era women profiled in Susan Faludi's The Terror Dream, who bravely and often viciously fought Native Americans after their menfolk had failed them, usually by running away.
For the past three years or so (ever since he quit doing "Get Your War On," his viciously funny satirical cartoon strip about the war on terror), Rees has been running a small pencil-sharpening business out of his home in Beacon, New York.
Pema Chodron writes about the student of a Buddhist monk who keeps running away to avoid an angry cur that bares its teeth and growls viciously as the student tries to pass.
Three years ago they had been running Birmingham when St Andrew's felt the bony grip of relegation close around their throats and the crowd had turned on them viciously.
For around 15 years now, he has kept a major hospital running in one of the most turbulent parts of the country, sometimes performing as many as 10 operations a day, on women who have been raped so viciously that they stumble in with death trudging just a few steps behind.
In Lynch's first year running the US attorney's office came the case that made her name: the successful prosecution of white police officers who viciously beat and sodomised a Haitian immigrant, Abner Louima.
There they were publicly and viciously flogged for daring to run away from their husbands.
