Today I saw two Congressmen interviewed on Fox about a dispute on the floor of the House. Apparently the Democrats were changing a proposed law as it was being debated on the floor, despite an agreement that Republicans would be given the wording 48 hours in advance (Republicans were not be allowed to propose changes even though the Democrats had said they would be during the recent election campaign). THe Democrat congressman wwouldn't answer the specific question of whether or not this happened. Instead he went into a riff about how badly Republicans had treated Democrats badly for the last six years, Bush was ignoring Democrats by sending more troops to Iraq, etc. I wonder why the newscasters don't demand that Politicians answer the question instead of recting thier parties talking points. I think we could speed up the discussion by doing what the English do in Parliment. We could number responses, like 1) Democrats are good, 2) Republicans are bad, 3) Bush has ignored us, etc. Then the Democrat who was interviewed today could have saved a lot of time by just responding 1) 2), and 3) without wasting everyones time.