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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Bill who wrote (15928)	3/21/2000 9:56:00 AM
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Weep for our late lamented Democracy: From a WSJ editorial on the recent gun "settlement". . . . Supporters of the new settlement seemed to treat as a virtue that it doesn't have to be run by Congress for approval. White House domestic policy adviser Bruce Reed said the agreement showed that "the public good doesn't have to be held hostage to legislative stalemate," while the New York Times reported that the deal has "opened a new avenue for regulating the firearms industry without action from Congress," where gun-control legislation has fallen victim to "partisan gridlock." "Legislative stalemate" and "partisan gridlock" are merely pejorative terms for the normal workings of democracy. When the legislative process is working, measures that are passionately opposed by an important constituency within the majority legislative party do not tend to hurtle to a speedy enactment. . . . interactive.wsj.com

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