[HOYA97]

I think Rush was referring to this story today.

[NonValueAdded]

This was one cool dude. Here is another bio link http://www.answers.com/topic/thomas-brackett-reed

and some great quotes:

• "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
• "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation"
• "If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments."
• "To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion"

[tet68]

Excellent article.

I found this rather enlightening.

The minority party has a right to be heard, to vote, and, as Reed once put it, "draw its pay," but little more. This is not a matter of simple power politics, as Reed knew, but of representative government itself. The party winning the most votes in an election has the right to see its program voted on and moved, not merely debated. Otherwise, the public becomes cynical about the entire democratic process — and rightfully so.

As long as the democrats can hold up the democratic process,
they can make the electorate more and more cynical about
our whole system of government, until the electorate
will in frustration choose something more "progressive".

[paltz]

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[Jim W N]

Don't you love it how the liberal-socialists refer to the constitution as "nuclear". They're so estranged from what our country stands for and the rule of law it stands on. They're more afraid of the freedoms guaranteed in our constitution than they are of the missiles being developed by madmen around the world. Where did these people come from and when will they be gone?

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