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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (20712)	6/22/2007 12:17:16 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

"our political system needs to be reformed big time. Selling votes is the norm. At this point it's hard to tell which party is more incompetent and corrupt. What ever happened to the politician that once attaining office would vote according to what was best for the American people instead of a small group of lobbyists. Some even used to have the courage to speak the truth in the face of hypocrisy......man where are those guys?...." I don't even mind if politicians were to vote with the narrow interests of their district as a significant factor in some of their votes. Voting for a behemoth spending bill with a bit of pork for many if not most districts does not qualify as voting in the interests of their district. The ideal that our FFs claimed to be pressing for were that Congress Persons would vote for what their district wanted and Senate was the mature force limiting the Balkinization of legal interests. Of course the President was called on to veto freely when the Congressional system broke down. Recent history is an embarrassment by those standards.