Daschle's Dilemmas
Wednesday August 8, 2001
- TITLE: "Daschle's Dilemmas" You know how much I love alliterations.
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August Recess
" Remember the other day when I celebrated the return of Bill Clinton to the national scene just in time for August? Well? Was I right or was I right. More on the book deal on Friday.
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We'll fix it in post
" "Post," here means "post production" which is after the principal shooting has been completed and the music, editing, sound effects, dubbing and other additions, corrections, and deletions to the material are completed. "We'll fix it in conference" is just about the same thing.
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upon which to strut and fret
" a cheap reference to the famous speech by Macbeth:
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
I am making no determinations as to the identity of "the idiot."
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Rock. Daschle. Hard Place
" A clever usage of the old saw (which I first heard in Ohio) of being between a rock and a hard place.
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Northeast Dairy Conference
" The official web page of the organization contains the following statement as to its purpose:
"These functions include assuring the region of an adequate supply of milk, recognizing the cultural and economic benefits of a viable dairy industry in the region and facilitating the Constitutional rights of individual states to act collectively in order to regulate milk prices."[emphasis mine]
- " the dog in the Sherlock Holmes story
" From the Arthur Conan Doyle story, "The Silver Blaze" in which the solution was deduced because, "The dog did nothing in the nighttime. That was the curious incident."
- Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
(This is the actual caption)
Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., expresses his opposition to
the Republican-backed farm assistance package approved by he Senate, during a news conference on Capitol Hill Friday,
Aug. 3, 2001. The Democratic-controlled Senate caved in to a White House veto threat and approved a House-passed
package of special farm assistance that provides $2 billion less than Democrats wanted.[emphasis mine, again]
(AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
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