1.   A Republican Senate and House have squared off against a Democratic president before, and the republic has survived.

2.   For years state courts have been televising the worst gut-wrenching street crimes and the republic still survives.

3.   If the Republicans succeed, the republic will no doubt survive.

4.   It happens in politics, and somehow the republic survives.

5.   The republic will survive a period of inertia.

6.   The republic will survive.

7.   They merely argue that the republic has survived past presidents who have also been mentally lazy.

8.   That said, however, the republic will survive even this.

9.   The republic only survives because of its trade in arms that make their way to the West through Turkey, according to a western diplomat in Tiblisi.