[Excaliber]

You know, regardless of party affiliation, through the years, the decades, the century even, it is worth noting: The people in Washington D.C. have a basic moral clarity on many of these issues. It's not always perfect, sometimes it's brutally wrong, but in the end, "we" as a country tend to step up to the plate, in time, and take responsibility. I think it's one of the things that make America the great country that it is. I've spent considerable time in the Marshall Island's group, the poverty is grinding. They live off the sea, barely off the land. Destroy the sea or the land and they have nothing.