[WileyC]

At the political table, unlike the poker table, there is no option of throwing in the hand and waiting for the next deal.

Sure there is, my friend. It's called Hillary '08. =)

[Congressman Billybob]

Yep, both Bushes are also somes of Eli. In my day, Yale was about evenly split in the student body between conservative and liberal. There were only a few "red diaper" babies among the students, and we largely ignored them.

The split on the faculty was even then (in the 60's) more liberal than conservative. But that never bothered us, because we were able enough in the classrooms not to be buffaloed by rants, rather than facts. Our Chaplain, William Sloane Coffin, was the rankest, bleeding-heart leftist on campus. Few of us took him as anything but a public joke.

Today, unfortunately, the University has deteriorated substantially at both the faculty and student levels, based on my reading of reporting from there, and especially occasional leftist ranks that now pass for news articles in the Yale Daily News where I was once an Editor (serving with Joe Lieberman, then Chairman of the News).

John / Billybob