Two Ways Of Handing Yourself
This has been a long campaign, and a hard one.
But every day was made a bit easier by the knowledge that we were not alone — that there were people like you out there, doing work with your own family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers, spreading our message of change.
I just got off the phone with Jack Murtha.
I called to congratulate him on his victory.
One of the glories of our democracy is this tradition — and it's a rather odd one in the history of the world, I'll readily acknowledge — that we spend months and months banging each other on the head, and then on Election Night we shake hands and congratulate one another.
And life goes on.
Or Gracelessly:
"Mr. Cheney enjoys an office on the second floor of the House of Representatives that historically has been designated for the Ways and Means Committee chairman," explained Rangel, who vaulted to the top slot of the tax-writing panel - one of the most powerful in Congress - when Democrats rolled over the GOP to take control of the House.
"I talked to [future House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi about it this morning," a giddy Rangel crowed during a news conference at his Harlem office.
"I'm trying to find some way to be gentle as I restore the dignity of that office," chuckled Rangel. "You gotta go, you gotta go."
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Still, he couldn't resist taking a shot at Bush's immigration-reform plan, calling a guest-worker program "as close to slavery as you can legally get."
Rangel is getting the last laugh in a nasty war of words with Cheney.
Down the closing campaign stretch, Cheney ridiculed Rangel as an irresponsible tax-lover who wouldn't extend a "single one" of the tax cuts.
Rangel blew his stack when Cheney told Fox News Channel, "Charlie doesn't understand how the economy works."
"He's such a real son of a bitch, he just enjoys a confrontation," Rangel snapped to The Post.
Don't think people don't see the difference. Don't think people won't remember, either.
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