consortiumnews.com - http://www.consortiumnews.com --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The rhetoric of American politics has grown more and more distant from the underlying reality, a circumstance underscored by the recent talk about Washington's supposed new civility amid the usual ugly personal attacks. The right-wing media's fury over the Jeffords defection, while still mouthing George W. Bush's mantra of a new tone in the nation's capital, shows how these two contradictory tendencies can exist side by side, with a touch of hypocrisy. For a look at this brave new world of political language, go to Consortiumnews.com at http://www.consortiumnews.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]