Ross Baker
Ross Baker
embrace helpful member
It's helpful for a member to be able to embrace a president. If not, they're very much alone.
fancy prima
He has the nimbleness and fancy footwork of a prima ballerina.
astonished delay either fear great happened loyalty ominous sign sort tom tribute
It's a very ominous sign for his leadership. Frankly, I'm sort of astonished that it hasn't happened before now, but it's a great tribute to either their loyalty to Tom DeLay or their fear of him.
activists strange worse
There's a strange minuet going on. In some ways, even the activists feel they could do a lot worse than Roberts, but they can't say it. They have to put up some kind of fight.
junior minority opportunity party senator
His timing, I think, was unfortunate. A junior senator in the minority party doesn't get much of an opportunity to shine.
bolster cement emotional enjoyed past state support union
He really has got to use the State of the Union to bolster his support, to really try to cement the kind of emotional support that he has enjoyed in the past from people.