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"Eight Democrats joined Connecticut's Joe Lieberman as co-sponsors, including four in tough re-election fights," says an editorial today. "And therein lay Mr. Daschle's problem. The strong position taken by the gay lobby made things uncomfortable for these vulnerable Democrats. … Voting for the bill would put them at odds with a financially strong special interest at election time. So Mr. Daschle took it upon himself to protect them from the tough decisions they were elected to make and blocked the bill from ever coming to a Senate vote."

Still, better no vote on the existing CARE bill than proposed amendments that would reduce tensions between the bill's cosponsors and the gay lobby.

On TV tonight: Galileo's religion
Those who enjoyed Dava Sobel's Galileo's Daughter will want to tune in PBS tonight for "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" on Nova, based on that 1999 bestseller. Sobel refutes the ideas that Galileo was any kind of enemy of the church and that religion is the enemy of science. "I'm inclined to think that today, science is the enemy of science," Simon Callow, who stars as Galileo Galilei, tells The Washington Post. "I wish the church was more involved, not less. Somebody has to ask the questions. Science cannot be allowed to pursue its own implications regardless. In addition, whoever is the paymaster of science has to be closely scrutinized; and it was ever thus."

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