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Long Arm of the Law School

9.22.08 @ 12:01AM

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Sadly, the only way the American people are going to get back their Congress as a representative body responsible to the people is to find a way to get term limits imposed on that corruption-ridden special interest hugging cesspool.

I've been fortunate for the past 12 years to have a U.S. representative who is fairly conservative, except he loved to bring home pork to his home district. He is retiring, and hopefully, the next one will be more responsive to the country's needs.

I won't even discuss my two Senators. Both of them need a shotgun administered dose of rock salt in their ample posteriors; in the Missouri Ozarks where I grew up years ago, that was the way we deterred thieves.
-- R. Goodson
Florida

George Will pointed out that if Obama wins and the Dems control Congress, we will see the end of the secret ballot when unions begin card check and the end of free speech with the enforcement of the fairness doctrine. Why isn't this being screamed across the land so the people can see that the very liberal Democrats who will run this country are not just incompetent but worse, are intent on stripping us of two of our most fundamental protections?
-- Allen Hurt
New Mexico

Alright, now is the time for Republicans to make significant inroads into, or possibly even take back, the House and Senate. With the current financial crisis, there are only a few "safe" Democratic seats in play.

A simple strategy for Republican Congressional candidates, particularly first timers, is to tie Democrats to the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through their votes concerning the lenders, the campaign contributions that they received from them, the mandatory relaxations of the lending rules made by the Clinton administration and the fact that both institutions were run by former Clinton government officials. The mortgage collapse was caused, in large part, by these two entities and that has led to further domestic troubles in the credit industry and the Democrats in Congress were a wholly owned subsidiary of the mortgage industry.

Should be a slam dunk for local Republican candidates and for Big John and Sarah. After all, Barack was one of the largest recipients of Fanny and Freddy's largess. Let's see if the Republican Party can find the brains to pull it off.
-- Michael Tobias

My official prediction on the Fall Elections: McCain will win the presidency, and by a significant margin (at least as high as Bush's '04 win, if not more) and we're looking at no significant change in congressional partisan make-up, at the worst. At best, we'll see such a significant McCain win that he has coat-tails (or maybe such an out-powering against Congress that McCain gets an uplift, depending on your point of view).

Why? Well, Mr. Cline covers a lot of it. But I think Jon Stewart said it best when this Congress couldn't even pass a non-binding resolution against the war last year: 'Here we have a congress which can't even get nothing done.' Energy and food prices are soaring, housing's tanked, Iraq is won, and what have the Democrats given us? Finger pointing, crass politicking, and the most liberal Presidential candidate in living memory. We all know the media is deep in the tank for Obama, and the Palin incident just made that undeniably clear. And Americans? We're a stubborn sort. Best way to get us to do something is have a bunch of elites stand on their soap-box and tell us not to.
-- Charles Campbell
Austin, Texas

I may not be as educated on party politics as you, but I believe that support for the GOP remains high because many of us Republicans do necessarily equate our party with Mr. Bush. The administration's policies have deviated far from our core beliefs and this has no doubt led to his unpopularity within the GOP ranks. But most importantly, GOP ideals remain the same regardless. I think this is a major reason why half of America still has faith in Republicans, we just want to see them carried out in a more proper manner.

Thank you for the article.
-- Christopher Keese

An excellent piece -- I couldn't agree with you more!!
-- Terry E. Hagen
Forest City, Iowa

MARKETS IN EVERYTHING
Re: George H. Wittman's Mexican Badlands:

It's one of those laws of the market. As long as there is supply to meet a demand, that demand will be met. The billions of dollars spent on the enforcement of unconstitutional drug laws is so much money wasted, and it makes things worse, not better. It pushes a multi-trillion dollar industry into the hands of criminals. And then were surprised when this fuels violence and human trafficking?

I'm not. Sooner or later this country is going to have to come to terms with the simple fact that making drugs illegal fuels additional crimes. If we want to stop action like described in this article, we need to legalize.

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