| November 16, 2006
There's been a lot of discussion by political pundits and talking heads
concerning the message sent by the voters to their elected representatives
on November 7. Here's my take. Put quite bluntly:
We, The People, do not like chicanery in elected
office. We will not tolerate unwarranted intrusion into our personal
affairs. We can see through the smoke you've been blowing up our
backsides. Don't dress up a pig in red, white, and blue and try to sell it
to us as the newest best hope to save our land. We're not buying it. To
wit:
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Scandals and perverts.
Mark Foley wasn't the first, and he won't be the last, but that
doesn't mean we, the voters, will turn a blind eye.
We will not tolerate child predators in elected office to
prey on our children and cloak themselves as wolves among the sheep.
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Nonsense, crooks, and personal agendas.
Senator Kyl, Senator Frist, Representative Leach, and others couldn't
get an Internet gambling bill to pass on its own merits so they tacked
it to the Port Security Bill at the last moment. Much of the
Internet gaming industry seems excluded from its reach in one fashion
or the other -- one can only speculate the reasons. The hypocrisy of
what the Internet gambling provision covers and doesn't cover is
obvious and smacks of Jack Abramoff-style maneuvers.
Politicians take note:
This isn't really about Internet gambling; you know it, and so do the
voters. It is about unwarranted intrusion into American homes.
Prohibition already failed once. Your arguments don't hold water. This
is an attempt to cloak a personal agenda in sanctimonious piety. Be
careful you don't join Mr. Abramoff in infamy.
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hypocrisy of what the Internet gambling provision covers and
doesn't cover is obvious and smacks of Jack Abramoff-style
maneuvers. |
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Immigration, fear, and bigotry.
Seven hundred miles of fence cannot protect a two thousand mile border.
It cannot protect against tunnels. It cannot protect against aircraft.
It cannot protect against boats.
This is nothing more than an attempt to use bigotry and fear, combined
with yet another spending boondoggle, to cast dust into
taxpayer eyes and shield politicians from those same eyes.
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cannot justify nullifying our Constitution and our Bill of
Rights. |
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Warrantless wiretaps are totally without merit.
Plain and simple, this is yet another attempt by politicians and
bureaucrats to extend their power-hungry reach into our personal
lives. Checks and balances were put in place for just this reason. The
Founding Fathers still had a vivid memory of the Boston Tea Party and
the reason for the event.
Administration
take note: You can get a warrant for a wiretap in a matter of minutes
or hours. You cannot justify nullifying our Constitution and our Bill
of Rights. We need it to protect us from your good intentions.
In short, actions of some of our elected leaders at
both state and federal levels have been an embarrassment of late -- and
politicians, please take note: we, the voters, did not hand the Democrats
a resounding victory nor did we hand the Republicans a resounding defeat.
You are all on probation, and we do much better when
politicians have one hand firmly tied behind their backs.
We hired you to do a job. DO IT.

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