Forget Jim "over and over and over and over and over" Baker and his black suits and gay ties.

Baker is a cynical Repug election tactic. head and rummy will never support real dialog. Rummy wants NK to collapse with a severe embargo, while head very probably wants to "shock and awe" NK.

The port security bill is more Repug electrioneering. This bill may be worthless as in improving port security, but why a couple weeks before an election, 5+ years after 9/11 ? :

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101300147.html

The gambling tack-on is a bone towards "Christians" who want to legislate their specific sect's "morality".