And for the last few weeks, the Senate has done hardly anything except debate health care.
But, except for debates, I give out as my lecture title (it is always the same) "Reflections on Current Contentions".
Glynnis (10 25:22 PM): I agree with you John, except this debate is going to being distilled down into a few short clips tomorrow and those first few minutes are going to factor largely into that.
The results look like the dial tests viewers often see at the bottom of their television screens during presidential debates, except that they reflect the average of hundreds of people, not just 30 in a studio.
The Texan governor did not disgrace himself with another "oops" moment in New Hampshire's two pre-election debates (except perhaps for appearing to call on the spur of the moment for American troops to return to Iraq).
In later years Man and Woman agreed on little during their many, many private "debates," except the need for more and larger stones along the border fence that did separate them.
Francine Katz, vice president for communications and corporate affairs at Anheuser-Busch, declined to say how much the company spent on the debates, except that it is "a very significant sum".
Nonetheless, a combination of increasing ideological rigidity, lack of new ideas and sheer cussed habit has taken the right completely out of these debates, except as rock-throwers and gear-grinders.
Finally this week, the two men did meet in a town-hall showdown, which turned out to be like all other debates, except with much less excitement and much more pacing around.
So today we have multiple descendants of the Buckley/Vidal debates, except they just aren't in the same room.
