towing the line, extended

[Barbara Need]

The following showed up in one of the comments shared by Molly Ivins
fans on the Observer page for her:

>When everyone else was towing the Bush line, she was busy hacking the rope.
>
>A day when I could read her comments, was always a day that gave me
>hope for the country.

An interesting extension from the re(?)spelling of "toeing the line"
and the reinterpretation of the line as being a rope.

Barbara

Barbara Need
UChicago

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