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To aid their struggle, the Senate Democrats will hold brutal oversight hearings, which they have not had the power to do in six and a half years. In those hearings, the Democrats will display cacoëthes carpendi—a mania for finding fault. Pity the poor administration witnesses who must abide the fabricated outrage of their Democratic inquisitors. (Tony Blankley, “The Jeffords Effect,” Washington Times, 5/30/2001.)