basically the same kind of rhetoric we've heard in the past.

The rhetoric was not there in the way it has been in the past, but we're still looking at a hike in March.

Beijing has been accusing the U.S. of hegemony over the past few days. But that rhetoric is targeted at a domestic audience, not the Americans,

We've had some solid races in the past few weeks,

result of blunder after blunder after blunder.

This one has a lot of horsepower and a lot of firepower behind it in terms of the membership that are in support of it.