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SENATORIAL BRO-DOWN

Brokeback Capitol Hill


By Randy Harward, 1-24-06

Uptight conservative Utah Senator Orrin Hatch and bellicose liberal Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, despite their profound differences of opinion, are friends and have even cosponsored more than 400 bills. It sounds like a bad buddy cop film (and there's probably a Brokeback Mountain joke in there somewhere) but taken seriously, it warms the heart. Why wouldn't it? Bile is ping-ponging up and down the Beltway and across the country; this kind of story gives us a reprieve from the heaving. A temporary one, anyway. Despite such high-profile bipartisan yokings as Schwarzenegger-Shriver or Carville-Matalin, we're still a rent and polarized nation. If there is true friendship or love in any of these relationships, you'd think the people involved would work a little harder at mending the rift. Sure, teaming up on 400 bills is a helluva start--but how about teaching some of your peers to share and play fair?



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By Colonel Bain, 1-24-06
Ted you forgot your rock in Senator Bingham...Or was it Ex-senator Bill Richardson that was your rock?...Opps a Richardson-Kennedy Democrat ticket...wait maybe Ex-Gov Ann Richard-Texas will give the creditibilty to a nation that been shaken....Augustine Eight miles High and Blowing...
By Randy Harward, 1-24-06
Hey Colonel--thanks for your comments (and the chuckle).

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