Right now Mississippi is at the top ebb of the sort of power curve and Louisiana is in a bit of a slump.

It's gonna get better, ... It can sort of be expected that we'd struggle a little bit because we've got a lot of young guys playing for us that really haven't had any game experience.

Usually you jump up a little bit, then there's a settling back down of a few points after that,

We should be thankful we don't live in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama.

I think people have a sense that right now Democrats are completely powerless in Washington, that they're just sort of bystanders. But there's a danger of Democrats' looking always like they are carping. It's important for them to articulate some kind of vision.

8,000 Guardsmen from Mississippi and Louisiana who might have helped, might have been deployed in the relief efforts are, in fact, in Iraq and not in Mississippi and Louisiana.