resided over the dock where my mother's mother waited and my father's forefather disappeared like vermonn the fields they flooded home. i can tell you where the to beins first landed that invited me to the patio in the house glass of whisky regard in luminous in the long twilight. if you drive east on the way to gonegarvin off to the right you will come on the ring road where there are to beins from norman times. the name [inaudible] into our own name now. i had known history but not the place. so next day driving along the route each village seemed a station on the journey of return. kiely's cross i pursued the paper trail, unwound the breed of names through census and baptism each generation christening the last until it was language on the tongue and the trail trailed to the mists of the unrecorded. now i was tracing a highway to ore gin the potatoes struck black with blight. metals and we was their faces swollen with fever. stench rising from the evicted burrowed. men like dogs scoured the fields. i saw in one cottage a royal of rats feasting on an infant. no one where i witnessed an

whether cantor said help vermon after the hurricane -- >> oh, yeah. >> -- until we reduce the budget.he way we work. america works exactly -- you know, we kind of have to remember that. you know, because even if the government forgets it, whatever they do, that when something horrible happens, all these people get in their cars and drive there to help other people. it's astonishing! >> do you feel like there is among the republicans who are trying -- i mean, the republicans don't have a leader for -- there hasn't been anybody since george w. bush who's emerged as the person who would lead the republicans. they had trouble with mccain, and anyway. but isn't there anybody that's the id of the republican party? as you see it, when newt gingrich or rick santorum or one of these guys talks, do you feel like, ah, he's speaking for this new republican party, he is the one who -- >> there's not -- there's like this -- they're speaking to -- i don't think either of them -- they're speaking to the people that they think really are kind of like the baseline. you know, it kind of started with the