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To: Alighieri who wrote (283324)	4/7/2006 10:19:00 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576282

re: Mark my words, this has major implications on the man, the office, the nation...i was listening to Washington Journal on CSPAN this morning. The republican line was overwhelmingly disapproving of bush, which is atypical. He has repeatedly said that leaks are unacceptable, that leakers will be punished, and it turns out he was the chief leaker and for the most dispicable of reasons. I want to see how they spin this one this weekend on the political journals. If ever there was a need for a electorally based recall.... Damn, it sure should have repercussions. Either impeach him or we get 3 more years. The guy repeatedly shows he thinks he is above the law... and the rule of law is the glue of a civilized society. Just look at Iraq. Bush has to go, and we shouldn't have to wait until the mid-terms to throw the bums out. Republicans have to stand up for their country over their party.

To: Alighieri who wrote (283324)	4/7/2006 10:19:59 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576282

About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." "The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: 1. From bondage to spiritual faith; 2. From spiritual faith to great courage; 3. From courage to liberty; 4. From liberty to abundance; 5. From abundance to complacency; 6. From complacency to apathy; 7. From apathy to dependence; 8. From dependence back into bondage " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election: 1. Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million 2. Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000 3. States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29 4. Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements living off government welfare." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency & apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase