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To: American Spirit who wrote (174479)	8/26/2001 5:10:43 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Why do you keep calling her "the little lady" you sexist pig?

To: American Spirit who wrote (174479)	8/26/2001 5:54:20 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 769670

Barbara Boxer is hostile toward the Bill of Rights. That's one. Name one policy of Barbara Boxer which has ever done anything but help American and the average working family.

To: American Spirit who wrote (174479)	8/26/2001 6:06:39 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Barbara Boxer has apparently got you fooled! newsmax.com newsmax.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (174479)	8/26/2001 6:15:36 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

Thomas Sowell on Barbara Boxer. "Among her many dubious distinctions, Senator Boxer has been named the "biggest spender in Congress" by the National Taxpayers' Union. It has been estimated that she has proposed over $300 in new government spending for every dollar of spending cuts she has recommended. Senator Boxer voted for the 1993 tax increase and against the welfare reform legislation that has gotten large numbers of people off the dole and back to work. When it comes to crime, Barbara Boxer sticks by the old liberal formula -- crack down on law-abiding citizens who own guns. Perhaps the crowning example of Senator Boxer's liberalism -- and hypocrisy -- were her denunciations of Clarence Thomas in 1991, because of Anita Hill's unsubstantiated charges against him, and her 1998 down-playing of Bill Clinton's DNA-proven sexual escapades with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. An intellectual lightweight who has sponsored no major legislation in all her years in both houses of Congress, Barbara Boxer is nevertheless a cunning political candidate and ruthless in her drive to stay in office. Her campaign ads are slick, her emotional rhetoric well-practiced and her vocabulary of buzz-words extensive. " So what legislation has she sponsored?

To: American Spirit who wrote (174479)	8/26/2001 9:07:28 PM
From: nickel61	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You been drinking too much of that good old country whiskey...no way I am going to try and convince a liberal that Barbara isn't his first choice...Of course she is...GOod to the last drop...

To: American Spirit who wrote (174479)	8/27/2001 5:33:20 PM
From: Mike M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Name one policy of hers which has siphoned off public money to special interests. I think you'll find the little lady is the antithesis of corruption in any way. And yes she is for campaign finance reform of course, as we should all be. Right....her primary special interest seems to be herself: With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Saturday, June 16, 2001 1:39 p.m. EDT LA Times: Boxer 'Pocketed Tens of Thousands' in Energy Profits Bush energy policy critic Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., "pocketed tens of thousands of dollars" in "quick profits on active trading of energy stocks last year," reported the Los Angeles Times Friday. Boxer's energy jackpot included a killing of up to $50,000 from the sale of stock in Halliburton Co., the oil services company Vice President Dick Cheney ran at the time. Records show the California Democrat engaged in a flurry of highly profitable energy trades throughout last year, cashing in big time with investments in Duke Energy Corp., Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. and El Paso Energy Corp., as well as Halliburton - while her state's electric rates and gasoline prices went through the roof. "She bought shares in energy companies in at least 66 transactions, and by the end of the year held stakes whose combined worth was estimated at between $126,000 and $355,000," the Times said. The energy-profiteering politician claimed Friday that she had no idea she was getting rich from businesses she'd bashed as price gougers, explaining that a financial adviser handles her investments. The fierce energy company critic promised to dump her energy stock portfolio. But Boxer said nothing about returning the ill-gotten gains to California consumers, who, she has argued in the past, have been victimized by the companies she invested in. Another oily Bush-bashing pol turns out to be the state's richest congressional representative, Rep. Jane Harman, who had the nerve to co-sponsor a bill against energy price gouging while racking up gains on her $350,000 investment in the Houston-based energy firm Enron. Like Boxer, Harman invoked the "financial adviser" excuse for cover, telling the Times she had no idea she was personally profiting from price gouging. Complying Thursday with Congress' financial disclosure rules, Harman reported total assets of between $107 and $297 milllion.