At what point in time does it get to your level, and you say, 'Wait a minute, something is not right here'?

I think there's a whole lot of circle-the-wagons that go on.

We're cutting off our nose to spite our face.

I just, until someone at the highest levels of the military embraces the idea that we are now fighting this war with private contractors, in terms of logistic support.

I'm a little concerned that I would know more about it than you would, honestly, since we have more contractors on the ground than we have military.

The great state of Missouri has spoken.

The great state of Missouri has spoken!

We can do better, and we've had enough. I have -- if I read one more time about the vaunted GOP turnout machine, I may get nauseous.

McCaskill is trying to tie Talent to Bush.

And we have invested a lot of time in -- in rural Missouri. You know, Democrats in the state for too long have thought that, well, don't go to the country, because you get on defense, and there's no point, and we can do enough in the cities to make up for the margins in the country.