Article: Bowling buddies see `face-saving exercise'

MINNEAPOLIS -- The politics of the sometime bowlers in lanes seven and eight follow the same trajectory as too many of their rolls: far left of center.

Only one of the six breaks 100; two score 81. Everyone cheers the rare spare. Gutter balls elicit a group groan. No one really wins, and no one playing below an impressive collection of neon beer signs really loses.

That's more than the friends can say about Washington and the rest of the country these days. A while back, they decided to stop discussing the presidential impeachment proceedings at the nonprofit housing agency where they all work. Otherwise, they figured, someone might quit in a huff. Now, they wish the Senate would do the ...

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