''Before long, Congress will be leaving on its summer vacation,'' Bob Schieffer of CBS News said two weeks ago. ''My question is, how will we know they are gone?'' By the calculation of USA Today, the current Congress is on track to spend fewer days in session than the ''do-nothing Congress'' Harry Truman gave hell to in 1948. No wonder its approval rating, for Republicans and Democrats together, is even lower than the president's. It's not only cowboy diplomacy that's dead at this point in the Bush era, but also functioning democracy as we used to know it."

Frank Rich, The New York Times

Rich, is a great writer who produces insightful well researched columns for the New York Times, every Sunday. Unfortunately, you can't get thru the website because the paper has started this TimesSelect stuff that charges for editorials. However, there is a way around this problem.

1) go to the Minnesota Library Website
2) click on indexes
3) go under L, for Lexis Nexis Academica
4) you can search from there to find Rich


-Noah