The Craven

craven

adj : lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful; "the craven fellow turned and ran"; "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"; "this recreant knight"- Spenser [syn: recreant] n : an abject coward [syn: poltroon, recreant]

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Apparently I wasn't the only one who gagged at the comments of Senator Pat Roberts in opening the hearings yesterday.

"You have no civil liberties if you are dead."

Tell it to Patrick Henry, bub.