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I completely understand the concern, but this entire bill was a set up by the Democrats who counted on Republicans going nuts and opposing the bill so they beat us over the head with it for the next twenty years. Though, not widely reported, many democrats did not wnat this bill either, but figured Bush would veto and hand them a golden campaign issue. The poison pill caveats were put into the bill for the sole purpose of killing it if things did not go as planned, and Bush called their bluff.

I'd love to play poker with you guys sometime - I have some kids I need to put through college. Wise up guys!

LOL.

I like your shrewd take on all this, and, I think there are times when one must be so shrewd to win the day.

But, I am so sad when I see an issue such as this, which should appeal STRONGLY to the instincts of an educated citizen,

which the FFs would have held forth on so vigorously,

being reduced to just another of the hundreds of Itchy-and-Scratchy, Tom-and-Jerry, cartoon fights we have with the Rats in front of the C-SPAN cameras.

To me, this is government by Professional Wrestling -- mock rages, shaking, posturing, pretending, phony good guys and phony bad guys, all designed to appeal to the most dull-witted, or the most corrupt, or both.

With the final deal being settled, out of the public eye, by dirty old men in the Senate cloakroom or the Oval Office.

It's not my idea of what American Government should be.

It's not what so many soldiers, sailors, and militiamen died for to establish as a government, and what so many millions died for to preserve.

It's cheesy and Third-Worldish, definitely un-American.