1.   Workers were working hot and heavy to repair the breach in the levee.

2.   As majority boss, Gingrich has the responsibility to repair that breach and he has shown no interest in doing so.

3.   After a reasonable interval, the board of governors will have to judge whether he has repaired the breach caused by his careless words.

4.   But behind the scenes Cabinet members and even the president were on the telephone trying to repair the breach.

5.   But that breach has been repaired, and Kissinger is backing the nomination, too.

6.   Crews quickly repaired major breaches, but elsewhere people ducked through smaller gaps, a hole scratched out here, a few links cut there.

7.   New York State Republicans, another group that might think it wise to repair the breach, look to Albany for guidance.

8.   Now the president is looking for a way to repair the breach.

9.   Repair the breach.

10.   What steps need to be taken to repair the breach?