All appearances are that the Bush administration's trying to sweep this under the rug, and with several hundred thousand in campaign contributions from Microsoft, the Republican party may well have been one of the company's better investments in the past year.

Maybe you're not the intended recipient of that appearance.

Maybe the Feds have the luxury of letting the states be the "bad guys" and torpedo a settlement. C'mon, the likelihood of the states signing onto that is less than that Microsoft will start competing on merits.

That's what smells "rotten" about this to me, nobody could _reasonably_ expect them to.

So... the Fed *try* to dispose of it in these trying times, the states refuse, oh, well, onwards we go....


(For the record, if that's the case I don't think its a good one, but....)

Addison