[cake_crumb]

"In this case, however, I believe they, the dems were working the other way.
They were hoping bush would veto, after they and the willing accomplices of the media had "prepped" the minds of voters as to the nastiness of enron and "money grubbing republicans", then they would have harped ad nasueum through next November, in an effort to regain the house while maintaining the senate, which, after all, is the ball here that we need to keep our eyes on."

ABSOLUTELY! I'd like to believe the president is acutely aware of that fact as well.

[going hot]

He is not a turnipseed. The bumbling fool caricature was put forth by the dems with media help. It was, is, and always will be at odds with reality.

The dems came to believe their own tripe, which now is coming back around to bite them in the a$$.

A man with character, conviction, and dare I say, PRINCIPLES, is mature enough to know when to hold them, when to fold them, when to duck, bob and weave, and when to hook and jab.