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To: Rock_nj who wrote (97479)	1/29/2007 11:49:04 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362603

Does this sound like a Christian President? "By Doug Thompson Republished from Capitol Hill Blue Bush curses inconvenient Constitution during a GOP meeting on extending the Patriot Act. Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act. Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal. GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. “I don’t give a g--damn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.” “Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.” “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a g--damned piece of paper!” I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a g--damned piece of paper.”

To: Rock_nj who wrote (97479)	1/29/2007 6:30:16 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 362603

SENATE TARGETS ABUSES BY CREDIT CARD FIRMS nypost.com <<..."I would like to put the credit card industry, issuing banks and card associations on notice," said Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), head of the Senate's banking committee. Dodd had a long list of complaints about the credit card industry, which last year reaped a staggering $17.1 billion in controversial penalty fees alone - a ten-fold rise in such fees in the last decade. Dodd said he was worried at how the latest generation of consumers has turned credit cards into a self-inflicted nightmare - using cards to charge up $1.8 trillion a year, up from a $69 billion a year in 1980. What's worse, he said, is that credit card companies that have put more than 640 million cards into circulation are also piling record fees and hidden charges that can break the back of many consumers... "The credit card industry is broken," said Elizabeth Warren, a law professor at Harvard Law School...>>