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To: sandintoes who wrote (4233)	6/17/2007 6:03:57 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 4641

This year it seems rain is more abundant! I guess Atlanta is dry!

To: sandintoes who wrote (4233)	6/17/2007 6:05:21 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 4641

Americans Outraged at Congress Dick Morris & Eileen McGann Thursday, June 14, 2007 Reprint Information Giuliani: U.S. Needs High-Tech Fence House Passes Homeland Security Bill Al D'Amato Likes Fred Thompson-Giuliani Ticket Billy Graham: Wife Ruth Beautiful in Death Obama: Drug Co. Lobbyists Hurting Seniors With our hopes for congressional reform dashed by the hypocrisy of the new Democratic congressional leadership, which is imitating all the abuses of the Republicans while they were in power, approval ratings for the House and Senate have dropped to 23 percent in the most recent NBC/Wall St Journal survey. Congress now gets even lower approval ratings than President Bush, even though he languishes at 29 percent in the same survey. When the Democrats took over Congress, hopes rose briefly and the NBC/Wall St. Journal survey recorded a favorable rating of 43 percent for Congress. But those days of cautious optimism are now long gone and, in their wake, is just bitter disappointment. In our new book "Outrage: How Illegal Immigration, the United Nations, Congressional Ripoffs, Student Loan Overcharges, Tobacco Companies, Trade Protection, and Drug Companies Are Ripping Us Off ... And Whatv to Do About It, we try to spell out some of the reasons for this mounting public anger against Congress. [Editor's Note: To get your copy of "Outrage" FREE, Go Here Now.] The fact that it jumped to No. 1 in non-fiction on Amazon.com on its first day of release shows how furious Americans really are. Here's why they should be: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has three sons and a son-in-law who have chosen lobbying as their profession. It isn't that hard to lobby Dad. The wife and son of Minority Whip Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo, both lobbied for Altra, the new sanitized name for Philip Morris, and the Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, passed out checks from tobacco PACs on the House floor. newsmax.com