[michigander]

Which I say means, that they have basically closed down the Senate from doing its business, which is what they threatened to do--

I thought my wallet felt a bit safer today for some reason.

[Txsleuth]

Well, hello---yes, you can be sure that NO spending will be done by the senators for quite a while it seems....

BTW, other news---The grenade thrown on the stage in Georgia when Bush was speaking was a LIVE grenade, not a dud like the Georgian security said it was....folks, we came close to the absolute worst thing that could have happened to this country on that day...(other than a nuke attack of course, but I am sure ya'll know what I mean)