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To: LindyBill who wrote (168248)6/1/2006 2:14:42 PM
From: John Carragher  Respond to of 793916
 
hastert should give up speaker seat before elections gives more room for republicans to say they are changing their ways of spending , crime etc.



To: LindyBill who wrote (168248)6/1/2006 6:49:25 PM
From: Ilaine  Respond to of 793916
 
Regardless of precedent and the separation of powers, 86 percent say the FBI should be allowed to search a Congress member's office if it has a warrant.

When the chips are down, I always give thanks to the Founding Fathers that they built a Constitutional Republic rather than a pure democracy.

Not that I am dissing "the people" -- but the Constitution was crafted by cool heads, not the man on the street.