[Howlin]

Let me just add this one thing.

What our response should be is that the president is entitled to an up or down vote on HIS proposal, not one Tommy Daschle thinks will benefit HIM and the Dems.

Somebody needs to tell Daschle he's not the co-president.

[fightinJAG]

Howlin, as usual you have cut through the slime like a laser-guided slime-decimator.

This is the refrain that must be used on the Rats: Give the President an up-or-down vote on his proposal.

Simple.

Maddeningly simple.

This should be the theme of everything said about this sorry, self-absorbed, beyond-the-pale speech by Tom Thumb today.

[rintense]

This stupid little man doesn't even realize he's backed himself into his own corner! The record clearly shows that the President has signed everything given to him. So if Daschle wants to keep crying like a little girl, let him! But the White House better come back saying that the President's record is clear- that HE has worked in the interest of the American people.