BTW...WOOOO-HOOOOOOOO!!!
Senate balance after 5 November 2002--well, technically after the Senate's seated in January--shall be 53 or 54 GOPers with both Zell Miller and John Breaux going independent and caucussing with the Pubbies by Spring '03!! November '04 will then result in a Filibuster-proof GOP majority and a second term fer Dubyuh!!
The worm is turning...
Quite Sincerely...MUD
"James Madison, the father of the Constitution, in fact feared some future political leaders would finagle the legislative process just this way. And he warned in Federalist Paper No. 58 that if it happened, "The fundamental principle of free government would be reversed. It would be no longer the majority that would rule. The power would be transferred to the minority."
In recent years, the process has become so politicized and so polarized and so ingrained that we cannot even put it aside in time of war. It is a system that Cuisinarts individual thought into a blind party goose step. A system that expects one to go along with the team even if the quarterback is calling the wrong signals. And one of these days someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up it has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field!!! Because as Churchill said, "Democracy is based on reason and a sense of fair play" and there is nothing reasonable or fair about this system."
Zell goes Indy next Spring and starts caucussin' with the GOP...MUD