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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (20018)	5/19/2007 5:17:15 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 71588

<<According to a May 16, 2006, Los Angeles Times article, Rep. Calvert has a history of securing earmarks for property near land he owns or has a financial interest in. Taxpayers for Common Sense reports Rep. Calvert put 69 earmarks into spending bills in the 2005-2006 fiscal year, while taking the lead on 53 of the 69. Many of those were infrastructure improvements to land near property Calvert had a financial interest in.>> Combining the absence of term limits with the seniority system multiplies the Congressional poison exponentially. Democrats cannot point fingers, since they notoriously allow black legislators to campaign for and win re-election even from prison, as well as prop up breathing corpses who have died of strokes in the Senate in an illegal attempt to prevent appointment of live people to replace them and threaten the thin majority of Harry Reid. But once again we get around to the Imperial Judiciary and its decades-old abuse of power. In the 70's Nixon combatted the corruption of pork by impounding funds (i.e., they appropriated the money, and he refused to spend it.) The USSC ruled that the executive branch did not have such power, a decision that made a mockery of the entire constitution, and was never again challenged. It is time once again for an executive branch impoundment of any funds they choose to condemn, from either party-only this time to DEFY any USSC decision that tries to interfere. It's as good a place as any to begin the inevitable war against the judicial tyranny that is eating away at our republic...