1.   In short, save some even-sharper elbows and more poisonous rhetoric, it was pretty much like the Democratic Congress that preceded it.

2.   Moore and his poisonous rhetoric will surely fade in time.

3.   What is shameful is that so few are willing to speak out against this poisonous rhetoric.

4.   What we do know is that he was killed by a man who acted on the poisonous rhetoric of these past months.

5.   Since the Oklahoma City bombing, Clinton and other government officials have urged measures to combat terrorism and blasted the poisonous rhetoric of talk radio.