[snooker]

Snooker, one who catches snook. This is a snook for the unknowing.

I defer to you oh wise one. I just don't agree with you.

Sometimes the path to success is not straight up the hill. You obviously want to go up the hill, I will call for the ambulance to stand by.

[Defiant]

LOL. So you like to hook the snook, eh? Remember, sometimes you go home without dinner. I prefer the other kind of snooker. Play the game, win or lose, you know the outcome. And if you can snooker the other guy, it's easier to win.

I understand your point of view. We'll just have to see how it plays out, I guess. I don't view what I want to do as charging up the hill, but as a prudent use of resources that have been put in the charge of the GOP for the next 2 years. To let Specter in the henhouse would be the risky charge into the unknown.

Let's remember to be glad that we are discussing the chairmanship of a larger majority in the Senate for a GOP president, and that we never have to hear the words "President Kerry".