Reply #94: It is a rational question [View All]

and you did give me an answer to it in #67 - (you)" are singularly unrepresented." It seems you may need a metric to see how far away from your beliefs various candidates are. I realize that it is easier to understand the world if you convert a huge mass of data to a small number of categories. But the labels, or categories, which simplify the task of deciding who is ok and who isn't, an never really capture the person.

With Senators, their floor speechs tell more than their votes. They have to make a yes/no decision on each bill - when they almost always (if it's not there bill) will think there were better choices. On, the energy proposal, Kerry will doom any chance for success if he immediately demands that the Senate commit to a huge long term cost. If he manages to get them to accept a long term conceptual view and allocate first year money, it will be both a miracle and a major accomplishment - that will almost certainly pass under a neme that is not Kerry.