[wolfpat]

The point I was making is that when Lieberman deviated from the Rat dogma, they threw him to the wolves.

[Nova]

I’m sure they would have liked to subject him to an old Roman punishment where they threw the punishee into a bag with a snake, a monkey, a cat, a dog, etc. and then into the river. It’s not a good idea to cross your fellow Stalinists.