The Monkey Cage

Gail Collins on the Democracts, April 2009:

…getting all 60 Democrats-and-fellow-travelers to vote together on something will be like herding…rabid guinea pigs in a thunderstorm, maybe.

Gail Collins on the Republicans, January 2010:

Have you ever seen all the House Republicans in one place? It’s like a herd of rabid otters.

Maybe, in the confusion of the thunderstorm, the rabid guinea pigs bit the otters.