Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 7/30/03: Ordinarily, the President would have addressed a Joint Session of Congress, televised in Prime Time.

"Senator Taft and Senator Hartley can both kiss my farmgirl ass," replied Mary Ann, succinctly.

Coercion had failed. The strike teetered on victory.

Turd Blossom spent the afternoon in close consultation with the Old Ex-President's Wife. It was time to try persuasion instead.