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Nonsense of the Senate
WALL STREET JOURNAL ^
| October 23, 2003
| Editorial
Posted on 10/23/2003 5:22:28 AM PDT by OESY
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Anyone who thinks a single Senator doesn't matter should take a look at yesterday's failed attempt to limit runaway class-action lawsuits. Fifty-nine Senators voted in favor of going to a floor vote on the measure, one vote short of the 60 needed to break a filibuster.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; bingaman; classaction; daschle; feinstein; landrieulincoln; lawsuits; medicalmalpractice; shelby; tortreform
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posted on
10/23/2003 5:22:28 AM PDT
by
OESY
To: OESY
Several years ago the libertarian party in Washington state was celebrating their victory at teaching the state GOP to take them seriously. They had just been successful in their bid to unseat Senator Slade Gorton (R).
Their so-called victory sent Maria Cantwell (D) to the Senate in his place. Just one more vote is all we needed...
To: OESY
It shows the degree of hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty on the part of the demwits. Daschole is so intellectually dishonest, that he would probably sell his own mother into prostitution (if he could find some way to gain political advantage) and would tell his mother she should be grateful for the employment opportunity.
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posted on
10/23/2003 5:28:01 AM PDT
by
punster
To: OESY
The 17 Amendment that changed the vote for Senator from being elected by the state legislature to being elected by the people, should be amended.
The election process should alternate, term to term.
One term, the people vote for their Senator.
The next term, the state's legislature votes for their Senator.
The next term, the people vote for their Senator.
The next term, the state's legislature votes for their Senator.
And so on.
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posted on
10/23/2003 5:58:27 AM PDT
by
First_Salute
(God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
To: OESY
I had decided that I would not make a contribution this year to the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. The vote on this bill and the outrageous opposition to the President's latest judicial nominee has caused me to change my mind.
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posted on
10/23/2003 10:44:28 AM PDT
by
p. henry
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