[TheBigB]

"He doesn't know yet what to do with himself after 26 years in office." = "He has absolutely no discernable skills that would allow him to survive in the private sector. Somebody please give him a job as a lobbyist."

[Howlin]

It felt like a melancholy affair, a party with the fight knocked out of it, Rod Stewart on tape scratching his way through a desultory "The Way You Look Tonight." The way they looked last night was sad and meek. What Might Have Been hung over the room, above the murmur of polite chatter of vacations Daschle could take and the integrity he had displayed.