I am linking this mostly because I love the quote attributed to former Senator Robert Byrd: ... pygmies who “stride...

I am linking this mostly because I love the quote attributed to former Senator Robert Byrd: ... pygmies who “stride like colossuses while marveling like Aesop’s fly, sitting on the axle of a chariot, ‘My, what a dust I do raise.’ ” I miss political figures who could turn a phrase.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-mitch-mcconnell-is-off-to-a-bitter-start/2015/01/07/0b8cd304-96a0-11e4-aabd-d0b93ff613d5_story.html?tid=hybrid_alt1_strip_1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-mitch-mcconnell-is-off-to-a-bitter-start/2015/01/07/0b8cd304-96a0-11e4-aabd-d0b93ff613d5_story.html?tid=hybrid_alt1_strip_1