Indecision 2010: Revenge of The Fallen
Coverage of the 2010 midterm elections. Republicans were poised to re-take the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate. The segment subtitle is from the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. In this case, the "fallen" are the Republicans. Senator Mitch McConnell is shown as transforming from a turtle, and Minority Leader John Boehner is shown as transforming from an orange traffic cone.
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Famous quotes containing the words revenge and/or fallen:
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—John Berger (b. 1926)
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—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)