Paul Coverdell: “when Senator Dole left the Senate, I looked down at this desk, and I said that I would ``never forget or look at this…”

“when Senator Dole left the Senate, I looked down at this desk, and I said that I would ``never forget or look at this desk without seeing him or thinking of him.'' He is now engaged in a very long journey. As the Senator from Minnesota just alluded to, he put forward a very broad economic plan that deals with the IRS that we have just been discussing, along with other policies such as the 15-percent across-the-board tax break, and others. Yesterday, my good colleague from Nebraska came to the floor--and, of course, he was the longest serving Governor of Nebraska, and he has been in the Senate 18 years--and I was taken aback by his comments about Senator Dole. Just to quote here, he calls it: The latest ``Follow the Yellow Brick Road'' path of wizardry blends $550 billion in tax breaks, unspecified spending cuts, and rosy economic scenarios into one shameless political ploy. When the unsuspecting Dorothys of the world pull back in wonderment the curtain, they discover a huffing and puffing candidate, Bob Dole, as the wizard. This is the same wizard who for the first 72 years of his life forswore such economic nonsense. Bob Dole's transformation from a deficit hawk into a carrier pigeon for supply * * * Well, anyway, I just do not think those kinds of remarks are fitting in public discourse, and certainly here in the Hall of the greatest legislative Chamber in the history of the world I do not think they are fitting remarks.”