[Molly Pitcher]

The Rebuplican-controlled 108th Congress begins today!!

HALLELUJAH!!!!!

Take care (((Guenevere))).

Desk Jockeying in the Senate from WSJ... Interesting history here...

AQ leader urges Muslims to kill Americans

Mike Mended his Fences Deborah Orin on the NYC choice

War Plan in high gear NY Post

Daring Dubya More on the NYC choice from Deborah Orin

Good morning everyone....winter wonderland here...

[Neets]

Stinking durn crappy "WHERE CAN WE PUT ONE MORE FLAKE OF SNOW" Winter UGHHHHerland here today too.

The ride in was quite "hairy" to say the least.

I am predicting no fewer than 3 accidents on our section of 9W this morning.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

America – The Right Way!!
The Daily Update – January 7, 2003

REMEMBER THE TRADE CENTER!!

AMERICA’S WAR ON TERROR – Day 484

The news as reported in The Washington Times:

[Note – All links go to The Washington Times’ website.]

1. President Bush has said there will be dialogue with North Korea.

[I have to trust the President on this one. I worry we may get rolled on the nuclear issue.]

Bush promises talks with N. Korea

2. US Intelligence confirms the Iraqis are building a double-layer defense ring around Baghdad.

[It’ll do them no good. If you control the skies, you win.]

Saddam sets up defenses around Baghdad

3. The troop buildup in the Persian Gulf region will give the President the option of ordering an attack in February.

[Tick, tock, tick, tock.]

Troop buildup in Gulf enables Bush to order attack

4. On the prospect of more tax cuts for Americans, the stock market rallied yesterday.

[Time for another muffler!]

Stimulus proposal propels stocks

5. Meanwhile, the Criminal Party offered a stimulus package of their own, which was one-sixth the size of the President’s. It offers $600 tax rebates to married couples.

[Hmm. I thought the Criminal Party didn’t particularly care to underwrite and encourage marriage. No matter. Let’s do like the last time all this rolled around. Let’s take the President’s package AND add the rebate on top of it.]

Democrats map cuts of $100 billion

6. NASA is testing a “jet taxi” program that would use small jets to link the Nation’s roughly 5,400 small airports. These small planes would carry three or four passengers between small airports on demand.

[Why is the Government involved in something like this? If it is needed and can be made economically viable, the private sector will do it.]

NASA tests 'jet taxi' program to connect airports

7. Fairfax police have raided some bars and removed patrons who were excessively drunk.

[Commonwealth law has a quirk here – establishments with liquor licenses are defined in statute as public places, giving the right to the authorities to conduct such operations and arrest people for “public drunkenness.”]

Fairfax cops hit bars to cite suspected drunks

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We shall not rest until we have cut a swath 60-miles wide through the entire left - taking all that is before us with us as we go. We shall leave nothing to the enemy that may be of value to him. We shall show him that he may count on nothing and will be able to keep nothing, not his spirit, not his soul, not that upon which he shall feed. We shall not cease until the moment we have rent through their entire land and have arrived at the sea, with our glorious victory upon us.

Home Page of the December 19th Society

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Now you have the info, go support the United States of America!!!

[Iowa Granny]

G'morning folks. I'm late arriving, and need to hurry on down the trail. BBL

[Bitwhacker]

And speaking of desks:

In Praise of Clutter, or, why a messy desk is the sign of higher-order thought processes...;-)

[nicollo]

Molly, I enjoyed that Senate desk story. I once touched the Webster desk -- I shivered.

Vice President James Sherman and Senator Elihu Root were trading Senate stories in August, 1911. Sherman told of the Senator Newlands speech during which Senators Root and Bacon were conversing in staged whispers hardly three desks from Newlands. Said Sherman,

I did not want to interrupt Newlands, so I tapped lightly on my desk merely to let the Senators know that they were talking too loud. Bacon, when he whispers, always talks louder than when he is addressing the Senate. In a few minutes I received a penciled note from Root which read:

"If your admonition is to make less noise, Bacon and I will go into the cloakroom. If it means we are to listen to Newlands, you can go to hell!"

Root then told of how Senator Robert La Follette attempted to secure the attention of the Senate. [La Follette was more than an earnest reformer -- he was annoying. He once gave a five hour speech regarding a bill that had been passed that morning. He gave the speech anyway.] Root said,

When doughty Bob is speaking, and he hears any whispering, he turns round and glares at the offenders until they cease to speak. He never makes speech that he does not once or twice go through this dramatic performance for the benefit of Bacon. As Sherman said, Bacon can whisper louder and talk lower than any man I ever met.

[From Letters of Archie Butt, 8/20/1911, pg. 747]
[* Root’s wit was scathing. The “doughty Bob” comment was a screw on La Follette’s preferred nickname, “Fighting Bob.”]