[IP] Losing America
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From: Bob Frankston <rmfxixB0406@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 14, 2004 3:08:26 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Losing America
I happened to catch a rebroadcast of
http://www.npr.org/transcripts/index.html?top – Senator Byrd talking
about his book, “Losing America”. It’s a good follow-up to the “police
state” discussion on this list.
One point he makes is that the Republicans success in getting their
party members in Congress to toe the line is subverting the
Constitutional system of checks and balances. Though he didn’t mention
it I can’t help but worry about four years to finish loading the
Supreme Court.
It’s not so much a question of whether the policies are right or wrong.
The issue is the lack of checks and balances. To those who think there
is just one “right” it may not be an issue. For those of us who have a
degree of uncertainty this is frightening – changing ones mind in the
face of reality is disparaged as flipping and flopping and, worse,
unpatriotic.
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