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is always the same. help me or you re going to help the democratic president, and you don t want to damage the speakership, and our cause, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. and i ve got to say, a lot of things, that, mike, you re calling these freshmen, i can get you clips from a decade ago or 15 years ago, people were saying the same thing about myself and largent and coburn and salmon and shadegg. excep except, joe, i would say at the end of the day, when you were there, when that group was there, there was much more willingness to compromise at the 11th hour than there is now and much more party discipline. more than needed to compromise. and i think a lot of times i didn t compromise. i mean, ask tom delay, a point where they just stopped whipping me. that said, i was never in a