For all those reasons, the history of debt-limit votes shows that getting to yes has often proved difficult.
I have often been asked whether I consider President-elect Bush smart, and my answer is yes, without any doubt.
(Scheffler, a methodical artist who likes to take his time over his illustrations, is slightly less keen to reinvent himself in the role of children's entertainer: "I occasionally play the owl in some of Julia's shows, it's true," he says. "Do I enjoy them? If I don't have to do them too often, yes").
Dutch language proficiency was measured among Turkish and Moroccan elderly by three questions: (1) when someone talks to you in Dutch, are you able to understand (yes often, yes sometimes, no); (2) do you have difficulty in speaking Dutch (yes often, yes sometimes, no); (3) when you read a Dutch paper or a letter do you have difficulty in understanding (yes often, yes sometimes, no).
The chilling answer is, quite often, yes.
The five response options were adjusted from the original version, and were; "no, never", "yes, occasionally", "yes, sometimes", "yes, often" "yes, all the time".
To reject illegal drugs, he said, "one has to say yes to life, yes to love, yes to others, yes to education, yes to greater job opportunities.
Distorting your opponent's record is easy: congressmen often have to vote yes or no to omnibus bills with hundreds of loosely-related provisions, so they can all be portrayed as having backed a provision that, on its own, they would have shunned.
