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cap-and-traitor

cap-and-traitor
 n.— «Could somebody please explain the difference between people on the Right calling the eight GOP congressmen who voted for the Obama-Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade anti-global warming energy bill “cap and traitors” and the far lefties at Moveon.org calling Gen. David Petraeus “General Betrayus”?» —“”Cap-and-Traitor” versus “General Betrayus”” by Mark Tapscott The Examiner (Washington, D.C.) June 29, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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