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...they could with procedural snags, protesting that all they wanted was to look at the budget as a whole. Liberals sounded the usual alarms about "the failed policies of the past" and offered an alternative version, which went down in a lightly attended vote in the late afternoon. And afterward, they complained that they'd been ignored...
...least not when it comes to the House. Why bother? "I'm glad we moved it the way we did," Bush told House Speaker Dennis Hastert afterward by phone from Fargo, N.D. "It's a strong message to the American people that the members of the U.S. Congress have heard loud and clear that if we set priorities and watch our spending habits, that we can send some meaningful money back to the people...
...heart attacks, or the bypass operations afterward that, for some reason, often leave the patient prone to depression? It would seem an odd emotional logic to become depressed after having been given new piping and a new lease on life. Some lore has it that bypass people are a little crazier than most, that the "cabbage" (coronary artery bypass) activates a wild hair. I am beginning to think there's truth in the theory that bypass surgery savages the memory (something to do with oxygen deprivation while on the heart-lung machine). My memory was once photographic. Now I have...
...Afterward, Carmela finds Tony passed out on the floor (he's had another of his panic-attack blackouts) and he tells her the story. The way Chase handles the scene shows how this series is in a league above anything else on TV. On a network show - even in the heyday of "All in the Family" -Tony's wife would have to be a sympathetic counterbalance, the tolerant peacemaker. But Chase and Falco don't let Carm off the hook: She subtly betrays that she's not entirely comfortable with her daughter dating a black man either...
...next few weeks will tell if Bush closed the sale - the numbers in Congress, and the low wattage of Dick Gephardt's response afterward, say he'll probably get most of what he wants. After Tuesday night, and that Goldilocks moment, he'll be able to claim due credit for getting...