If the Hagel hearings had done nothing else they had in fact done everything else in their revelations, if not the final outcome they had, in this time of postelection dreariness, shown Republicans come roaring to life.
She would escape the bare concrete steps, layered with dust, that led up into rooms without windows, the walls painted lurid, glossy colors, as if to make up for the dreariness, the television covered with an embroidered cloth.