The one issue that bared a rift--and left a hole unpunched on the Speaker's card--was the term limits resolution which the House rejected.
Lego's in-house model-making team has made card-dealing robots, dancing robots, robotic arms and even a fully functioning copier out of the kits.
But many young people might have other priorities, such as paying off credit-card debts or saving for a house deposit.
The first lady also bristled when asked about Woodward's suggestion that she privately supported an effort by then-White House Chief of Staff Andy Card to push out Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
So the package is more like taking out a mortgage to rebuild your house than running up your credit-card bill.
The biggest wild card is the tea-party-backed freshmen in the House.
The White House has delivered a much-awaited, interim report card on President Bush's troop surge strategy.
"Just as we commend our troops, it is time to do our job, " said House Budget committee chairman Jim Nussle, after intense lobbying of moderate Republicans by Vice-President Dick Cheney and White House chief of staff Andrew Card.
Andrew Card, White House chief of staff, said the president will push for the entire tax-cut plan, not a scaled-back version.
That prompted then-White House Counsel Gonzales and President Bush's chief of staff, Andy Card, to go to Ashcroft's bedside in an intensive care unit at George Washington University Hospital.
Opponents are particularly concerned about the House legislation, which would allow the Hollywood studios and other content owners to ask credit-card processors to block payments to U.S. websites accused of hosting pirated material.
The White House's support of card check, which would do away with the secret ballot for union-organizing elections, and of forcing mandatory arbitration on companies that can't reach an agreement with their unions would artificially increase the cost of labor and hamper job creation.
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