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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (41317)	11/18/2010 11:45:37 AM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

don't forget the "...er..uh..<g> :)..." Get ready for a barrage of quotes, parentheses, caps, italics, bolds and exclamation points. In between, see if you can find his answer to your question.

To: Bill who wrote (41317)	11/18/2010 3:37:49 PM
From: Cage Rattler	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

The Time Has Indeed Come? Governors of 35 states have already filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention. An idea whose time has come. . . For too long we have been complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest was to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform ... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We should not have an elite group that is above the law. We shouldn't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure. Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ." *** from email without reference