"There's so much difficulty with comity now," lamented Tom Daschle, a former Democratic majority leader.
But at the same time, he said he no longer had any confidence that electing either a Democratic or Republican ticket would restore the sense of political comity that prevailed during much of his time in the Senate.
"I don't know that other than the comity of the committee, it will make much difference anywhere," said Representative Frank D. Lucas of Oklahoma, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, which must cut $33 billion, largely from nutrition programs.
Much of this is due to inertia and a lack of comity within the body.
How indeed could one be a genuinely good friend to one's lover, one's family, one's chosen comrades, without offering them more of oneself than to strangers, however much one's concern is to be a responsible part of the comity of man?
Sharon was the least messianic of all of Israel's Prime Ministers, much less so than Shimon Peres, for example, who spoke of a post-conflict "new Middle East," of warm comity and interdependent economies.
"Comity!" Senator Biggs says.
Gone is the interparty comity.
Comity is hard to achieve.
That comity is now history.
