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and Mr. Neumayr would be better served being a scourge of the United States Congress and not an apologist for anyone. The Constitution was intended to restrain lawmakers from running amok. As a consequence the legislature has become less a voice of the people and more a creature of pressure groups and special interests, ergo Mr. DeLay's three "admonishments!" Only Dr. Stein believes that the "Hammer" is simon-pure! I don't know, admittedly! As the former mentor of this magazine opined about the typical lawmaker, "With the right pressure applied I would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism." And not to overplay this quote from Voltaire, "Government is a device for taking money out of one person's pocket and putting it into another's." br> -- unsigned /p> p> RICE CAPADES br> Re: Mark Goldblatt's Condi and History : /p>

I disagree with Mark Goldblatt that Condi Rice should be the 2008 GOP presidential candidate. Condi is articulate but her record as National Security Advisor shows poor judgment, thus she is not qualified to be commander-in-chief.

Under her watch September 11 happened despite repeated warnings. Remember afterwards, Condi saying naively: "Who could believe that terrorists would fly planes into buildings?" Under Condi's watch, we (correctly) went to war in Iraq with far too few troops. Under her watch, North Korea continues to build nukes with impunity, while we continue to plead with Kim Jong-il to attend the endless and toothless six-party talks. Under her watch Iran is also going nuclear, but don't worry, according to her diplomacy will convince those nice mullahs to end their nuclear ambitions. Under her watch Communist China, with the help of our giveaway trade policies, is becoming a nuclear superpower.

p>The real truth is that Condi is a naive dove on foreign policy. Republicans are making a huge mistake if they push for her to be a presidential candidate. br> -- Lou Venticinque

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