Now, the bad news, unfortunately, just keeps coming. The House of Representatives passed the latest son of NAFTA called the Oman Free Trade Agreement.

The Administration rejected our AFL-CIO 301 Trade Petition, which would have held China accountable for the human rights abuses that it has. See, using their figures, we proved that China's violating their own laws and our trade laws. And as a result, they receive a 77 percent advantage over every American producer. They rejected that petition.

And then the Senate Committee cut funding for job training and health and safety. The stock market is in free fall again, and oil prices are hovering around $80 a barrel. Gasoline at the pump is projected to go to $4 a gallon. And Dick Cheney is still president of the United States.

Now, I don't know if you read the piece in the newspaper about how Dick Cheney's low approval ratings are 17 percent. Seventeen percent matches up with some of the worst villains in our history.

The first thing I thought about is what in God's creation are those 17 percent thinking about. That was the first thing I thought about.

Then I started comparing and figured out that Cheney's image is worse then Spiro Agnew's when he was forced to resign as vice president, is lower than O.J.'s [Simpson] when he was on trial, and even lower than Michael Jackson's whenever he held his baby out the window.

As it turns out, there are actually only two public figures right now in our entire country last week with public image and respect worse than Dick Cheney. One was Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition who got caught taking dirty money and lost his race for Lieutenant Governor in Georgia. And all I can say is, goodbye, Ralph.

The other one — now the other one was the high level Cheney assistant who got caught on a live microphone talking dirty with the British prime minister and then got caught on camera trying to give the German chancellor an unwanted neck rub.

Now if one of us had done that, we would probably be in jail. But Cheney gave George Bush a time-out instead, so we'll see him again this week.