To: Mia T
Fred is a professional politician? Gee, the whining around here has been that he’s a quitter because he went back into private life.
Fred is what the founders envisioned. Someone whose entire life doesn’t revolve around Washington DC.
108 posted on
04/03/2007 4:10:09 PM PDT by
Politicalmom
(Thompson/Watts in 2008!! Fear the Fred!! FreeRepublic is FRed country!!)
To: Politicalmom
Citizen politicians: What the Founders envisioned were people of exceptional character, ability and achievement who would lend their expertise by serving a term or two and then return to their day jobs.This isn't Fred Thompson.
Indeed, Thompson exempifies DC entrenched power and the revolving door.
- campaign manager for Senator Howard Baker's successful re-election campaign in 1972
- co-chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee in its investigation of the Watergate scandal, (1973-1974)
- 1975-1993 Thompson's eighteen year engagement as a lobbyist in D.C. He 'eventually represented clients including Westinghouse, General Electric (the current corporate owner of the NBC Universal-NBC television network), and the Tennessee Savings and Loan League '
- 'By 1982, Thompson worked the U.S. Congress membership as a lobbyist for passage of the Savings and Loan deregulation legislation desired by the Tennessee Savings and Loan League --- in this case, federal deregulation legislation allowing for additional government support of ailing S&Ls; giving U.S. thrifts the freedom to invest in potentially more profitable, but riskier, ventures; and eliminating interest-rate ceilings on new accounts to increase S&Ls' competitiveness. Enacted into law during in September 1982, the Senate bill pushed by Thompson was incorporated into the Garn - St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982. The Garn - St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 is widely credited with having laid the groundwork for the U.S. Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s.'
- November 8, 1994, Thompson was elected to the United States Senate. Thompson was re-elected in 1996.
109 posted on
04/03/2007 5:47:29 PM PDT by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Politicalmom
It’s amazing how hopeful followers of other candidates are fearful of FDT.
FEAR THE FRED!
And you coined it!
111 posted on
04/03/2007 5:53:53 PM PDT by
Hostage
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