The pubbies made Paez wait for four years for an up or down vote from a quick glance. Payback is a mofo, although some dems swore that they would permit up or down votes on the Senate floor if the shoe was on the other foot.
I don't know how the bent one ever got at pass as being a moderate. Just about all of his appointees were far left wingers.
I have found entire Times articles on the web with google after getting the abstract from the Times archive. That's what I was hoping for when I found this at thomas.loc.gov .
He's called The Slickster for a reason. Kerry and Dean couldn't hide their abject Liberalism, and they lost. The Clinton's are more capable of hiding, masking, and camouflaging their true agenda, and therefore, appear to be moderates.