Cooler heads retort that this would backfire: Ms Sotomayor will be confirmed anyway and yet more Hispanic and female voters will desert the Republican Party.

一些头脑较为冷静的人驳斥了这种观点，称这么做只会适得其反：不管怎样，Sotomayor女士的提名获得通过已不成问题，而杯葛其提名只会使更多的西裔选民和女性选民抛弃共和党。

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They ended up staying up there for like a month-6 weeks, and we just rotted away in the desert with the Bde advance party back in Saudi.

他们最终在那里呆上了一个月到6个星期，在旅部先遣队返回沙特的时候我们就在沙漠里消耗时间。

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They finished off the day with a party in the middle of the desert. On Sunday the Bayern camp then returned to Munich.

他们在沙漠中心举办宴会结束了一天的活动，周日拜仁训练营回到慕尼黑。

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With flags that read "Don't Tread On Me", Tea Party supporters gathered in a windswept dusty lot in the desert in Searchlight,Nevada, the hometown of Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.

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Cooler heads retort that this would backfire: Ms Sotomayor will be confirmed anyway and yet more Hispanic and female voters will desert the Republican Party.

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