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br> -- Jason Stewart /p>

It's very fitting that the Senator Jim Webb be designated Enemy of the Week. I found it interesting that part of Webb's explanation for his aide's behavior was completely in keeping with the senator's considerable boorishness and egomania. To wit, the senator's excuse that his aide formerly served as a Marine. With that statement does Senator Webb mean to imply that Marines are expected to break laws? Or does he rather mean that laws don't apply to those who served as Marines?

p>I believe that statement provides a window into Senator Webb's philosophy of governance. Taking inspiration from James Taranto, Senator Webb, who, by the way, served as a Marine, apparently fancies himself part of a special benighted class of citizen that is above following the laws decreed upon the rest of us. Perhaps the most dangerous people throughout human history are those who believe they are entitled to arm themselves while those they govern are not. It is a reminder to me that the NRA is the world's most important secular organization. br> -- R. Trotter br> Arlington, Virginia /p> p> I enthusiastically agree with Enemy Central's award of EOW to the most dishonorable senator from Virginia. I did not believe Webb could dishonor himself or his office anymore than he had already done so when he insulted the President at a White House reception for Congress but once again just when you think a Democrat has taken bad behavior as far as it can go a new record is reached. I just wish Webb had taken a swing at President Bush and given the President or the Secret Service an opportunity to lower the boom on the foul mouthed little popinjay. br> -- Jack Wheatley br> Royal Oak, Michigan /p> p> Very good. However, I think there are more Democrats who are just as deserving of this award. Keep up the good work.

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