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- From: bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden)
- Subject: Re: Weinberger's Pardon
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:01:50 GMT
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- dan@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com (Dan Breslau) writes:
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- >bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) writes:
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- >>busta@vicki.enet.dec.com writes:
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- >>> The big deal is that Reagan/Bush and company felt they could do
- >>> anything they damn well pleased even though Congress and most of
- >>> the American people said NO to giving military support to the Contras.
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- >>Most of the American people?? Where do you get that??
- >>This was a policy dispute between a Republican president and a
- >>Democratic congress. You forget that Reagan was elected by these
- >>same people that you assume so glibly opposed his policies, by
- >>a margin significantly higher than Slick Willy's "Mandate".
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- >And that vast Democratic majority in Congress was clearly imposed
- >on the American people by a vast Communist conspiracy.
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- Maybe - with incumbant protection that was running 98% retention
- rate in Congress. How do you compete if your oponent mails all
- of your possible constitutents 3 times a year, then gets your
- mother her medicare.
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- Note also that Reagan had more votes than all of the democrats
- in either one of the houses.
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- Bruce E. Hayden
- (303) 758-8400
- bhayden@csn.org
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