DeWine is making this up for CYA.
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I didn't hear Rush today (trip to a funeral home) but I'm not buying what you and he are selling either. I'm not saying the WH sent them to "make a deal." However, you and Rush are discounting the President's own comments about the deal - things moving forward, pleased about it, etc. Maybe he is just trying to put a happy face on this fiasco now that he sees what the outcome is likely to be - loss of senate seats in '06. I still say these 7 are not off the reservation and there are plenty more than these 7 that will never vote to disarm their abortion buddies in order to get constitutionalists on the courts. As long as they cover for each other, there isn't any way to determine who is walking the walk and who is talking the talk, so the voters can never figure out how many and who we need to get rid of. It's a game the Republican party has been playing for a long time and sadly getting away with it.