"I am given zero tolerance for defect, " he grumbles.

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"People become very illiquid, " he grumbles.

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That sounds similar to the schedule that Robert Flach, The Wandering Tax Pro, claims to maintain. (My blogging buddy, Joe Kristan, calls the Flach version of tax season, a two month death march.) Instead of running a blog where he grumbles about the GD extension and the idiots in Congress making a mucking fess out of the tax law, Mr. Dodds spent all that extra time raising Morgan horses.

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And did he not really adore, despite intermittent grumbles, the homage from the hundreds of admirers who beat a trail to his Weimar door?

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But he has had to pay attention to Republican grumbles.

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