My wife and I watched the Reagan processional last night with lumps in our throats and tears in our eyes. What a moving ceremony, and they put the whole thing together in four days. Hundreds of military personnel, ceremonial cannon, 21 jet flyover, police and emergency vehicles, security, horses, horses, and more horses.

We have finally found the one thing the Feds can do efficiently.

Striking too, were the Democrats assembled in the Rotunda. Carl Levin looked like someone had taken an all-day sucker out of is mouth. The best way to describe Daschle's demeaner is "ruefull," but one could argue that Daschle is always ruefull as an element of his deep concern. Nancy Pelosi was strangest of all, with a clown-like grin. My wife speculated that plastic surgery has prevented her face from assuming any other expression.