FROM OUR FECKLESS LEADER

"Jesse Helms was a kind, decent and humble man and a passionate defender of what he called 'the Miracle of America.' So it is fitting that this great patriot left us on the Fourth of July," President Bush said in a statement Friday.

Two of a kind only Helms wasn't afraid to put the venom right out front. Georgie does it with a smirk and a head fake.