As transcribed by The Hotline, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Ca.) ventured Wolfward yesterday to defend Donald Rumsfeld:

"The fact that this is a tough time and a tough point in this progress toward a free Iraq doesn't mean that you change horses because you're in a tough ball game and there's lots of difficulties."

Well put. Because of all the analogies in the world, a ball game is the one you want to be using.