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And the more tenuous the Republicans' majority became, the more they resorted to behavior that was easily portrayed as partisan.
The LAT lead says the Republican grip on the House is "especially tenuous" because the party has the slimmest majority either party's had there since 1954, Democrat fund raising is more effective than it's historically been, and because more than three times as many Republican incumbents as Democrats are vacating their seats.
The unlikely--and more than slightly jarring--response reminds us that freedom is as tenuous as it is precious, that the current sense of plenty must be zealously guarded: "Take stock in America," we're told.
This assumption is clearly tenuous given the mobility of the study population.
And I guess that is what happened here because not only was our friend Brandy/Moesha apparently upset that she "had put on weight in her bust and thighs"; she also revealed that she did indeed have a very tenuous grasp on reality when, according to the article, she threw her script at the show's producer's on Nov. 8 and screamed, "This is a bunch of crap and I'm not doing it anymore!"