He moves menacingly toward me, trying to put it around my neck, to hypnotize me.

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In the Washington version of this cartoon, Democrats hypnotize gullible Republicans with ostensibly sincere promises of future spending restraint.

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But big numbers can hypnotize and there are a lot of misconceptions and wrinkles to the story that Cembalest is quick to point out.

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