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Lindsey Graham in particular had lots of dire warnings about what it all protends for bi-partisanship in the future.

Matthew Yglesias » Centrist Senators Change Stimulus By Redistributing Wealth Upwards 2009

Now shakes his spear, now lifts, and now protends;

The Iliad of Homer 2003

The one departs from the place I occupy in the outer world of sense; expands, beyond the bounds of imagination, this connection of my body with worlds rising beyond worlds, and systems blending into systems; and protends it also into the illimitable times of their periodic movement — to its commencement and perpetuity.

Christian Doctrine of Sin 1823-1886 1876

Now shakes his spear, now lifts, and now protends;

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716

Prone to the wheels, and his left foot protends, 82J Rrcpar'd for flght, the fatal dart arrives.

The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson 1790

Prone to the wheels, and his left foot protends, Szj; '

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790