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p> SEIZING DEFEAT br> Re: Lisa Fabrizio's March Madness : /p>

When I read this morning's American Spectator I realize how really out of touch Washington Democrats, unmen, and others who live unworldly lives are. I can understand this. We once lived in the Beltway. It was four of the longest years of our lives. Fortunately we traded our lovely two-story home in Springfield for a lovely home AND 33 acres here in East Texas. Though my husband was a military retiree working for a Defense contractor an hour away, we managed a herd of cattle, had our son learn to bale hay, beginning at age 12. He learned to work the land and I kept telling him it would build character as well as manliness. It did and he was a USAFA appointee and grad.

I have believed since I was in D.C. that we have the wrong idea about how Congress should work. First, it should only meet six weeks a year total. The rest of the time the members of the House and Senate MUST live at home in the state they are from. It will keep their feet on the ground; lobbyists would have to show up then where they can be seen by the elected people. Next, when living in D.C. for the times Congress met, a dormitory would house all the Congressmen/women, and Senators. Then, they could live in a more common fashion and be forced to share and live together, like the rest of us do. Most especially they would have to show up for meals at appointed times. Eating together forces good manners.

And finally, we would do away with retirement packages for them and they could live on Social Security (unenhanced) like the rest of us do. That would force them to think more rationally, as the rest of us do.

p>I also believe I need to bring some Congressmen here to work cattle, Texas Style. It would help them see life more rationally, quicker, while handling the bull in a cattle chute. Who knows, I might slip with my cattle prod... br> -- Beverly Gunn br> East Texas Rancher, Military Mom /p>

So the Democrats want to entice members of the military to violate the UCMJ. They are enticing a military culture that considers the standards of professionalism as relative and open to personal interpretation. If I'm not mistaken it was just such lapses in discipline that gave us the Abu Ghraib scandal we still hear so much about. Could the Dems possibly sink any lower?

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