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To: blam

Lott isn’t alone in his arrogance, they’re all “in your face” with their smug arrogance. These DC traitors think they’re “Royalty.” The cure for these traitors is no donation(s) or campaign workers for “any” re-election campaign. Send every last one of them back to the third-world they created. They can live among the illegals they’ve allowed to infiltrate our country.


25 posted on 06/15/2007 7:15:12 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Royalty is right. The next time you speak to a Senator, make a point of calling them Congressman (or Congresswoman). They will try to correct you but you will be accurate. There are two houses of Congress, the HoR and the Senate. Both Representatives and Senators are Congresscritters. Senators just think they are so much more.


39 posted on 06/15/2007 7:35:18 AM PDT by Nomorjer Kinov (If the opposite of "pro" is "con" , what is the opposite of progress?)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Lott isn't alone in his arrogance, they're all "in your face" with their smug arrogance.

The following is from another thread, but I think Churchill's quote accurately describes the attitude of Lott, et al..

Criticizing the British politicians in the years before WWII, Churchill wrote: "The left and the right joined forces with fatuity at a terrible price to be paid later."

The American Heritage dictionary (New College Edition) defines "fatuity" as "stupidity conveyed with a air of pride or self-satisfaction."


61 posted on 06/15/2007 7:59:30 AM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: ExTexasRedhead
The senate retirement benefits equal more than most Americans earn working their entire lives. They could care less about you or me. Also there are other 'hidden perks' like this one for example. Sonny Callahan spent $2 million of your tax dollars to dredge Dog River in front of his house before he retired. See here.

"It turns out that there are many interesting aspects to this project. First of all, how is it that the project was given life at all? The Army Corps of Engineers does work that is concerned mostly with flood control and navigation projects. A prerequisite of any project is that it has economic returns (Reilly, 2001). The Dog River Pilot project has no economic returns. How did it get started? The story is as follows:"

Representative Sonny Callahan has a house on the river. For years he listened to complaints from neighbors about the depth of the river (Kamen, 2001). People were having trouble getting their big recreational boats into the water. An initial study in 1997 by the Army Corps of Engineers, however, found no reason to undertake a dredging project. After all, there is no real commercial traffic on Dog River. After more complaints, however, many people feel like Callahan gave in to the pressure. A loophole was found in the Corps’ statutes. This loophole is the environment. If the plan to dredge the river could be re-packaged as an environmental restoration project, then economic returns could be thrown out the window (Reilly, 2001)."

"The package was completed, and because of Callahan’s position of power, he was able to clear the next hurdle: the hurdle being that a local sponsor was required to put up 35 percent of the cost required of all environmental restoration initiatives. He merely erased this clause, and added the extra money with the Supplemental Appropriations Act, bringing the total to $1,900,000 (Mobile Register, 2001).

73 posted on 06/15/2007 8:24:00 AM PDT by blam
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