But outgoing New York Rep. Bill Paxon, a veteran of the Gingrich's team who left the leadership in the wake of an aborted coup, says the game may have a new player, Deputy Whip Dennis Hastert of Illinois.

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Yet he is very much in the mould of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair: vigorous, telegenic, outgoing, modern-minded, good at appealing to the new middle class.

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If you mail a payment, drop the bill off at the post office or a secured mail box rather than tossing it in the outgoing office mail.

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