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What would Dirksen say? “Like digging potholes…”
One of Illinois’ most famous Republican leaders was U.S. Senator Minority Leader Everett Dirksen.
In light of Congress’ pending decision on whether the U.S. should bail out the Big Three automakers, one can’t help but speculate Dirksen would have followed an earlier pattern he established when he said:
“As I think of this bill, and the fact that the more progress we make the deeper we go into the hole, I am reminded of a group of men who were working on a street. They had dug quite a number of holes. When they got through, they failed to puddle or tamp the earth when it was returned to the hole, and they had a nice little mound, which was quite a traffic hazard.
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“Not knowing what to do with it, they sat down on the curb and had a conference. After a while, one of the fellows snapped his fingers and said, ?I have it. I know how we will get rid of that overriding earth and remove the hazard. We will just dig the hole deeper.’” [Congressional Record, June 16, 1965, p. 13884].
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