Schieffer on Snowe's parting shot  I've never liked it when old
people remind us things were better in their day, but here I go:
When I came to Washington back in 1969, things were a mess - the
country was divided over Vietnam, and a wave of violence had
taken the lives of two Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr.  Yet,
even in those difficult days, the government still functioned,
and Congress was a much better place - it still passed
significant legislation.  The Senate was a place of giants and a
blend of all persuasions - Democrat John Stennis of Mississippi
was a conservative; Republican Jake Javits of New York a
liberal, Washington's Scoop Jackson was a hardliner on defense
and a liberal on social issues.  Democrat Hubert Humphrey of
Minnesota was a liberal's liberal, and Republican Barry
Goldwater was a hard-core conservative.  They came and they
went. But none of them left for the reasons given last week by
Olympia Snowe, the moderate Maine Senator who said in so many
words she was just tired of foolin