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- From: dan@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com (Dan Breslau)
- Subject: Re: Weinberger's Pardon
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.150340.2741@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com>
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- References: <BzzH4s.M60@well.sf.ca.us> <1992Dec28.200756.18681@cs.ucla.edu> <1992Dec29.135226.20152@panix.com> <1992Dec29.221407.24874@ryptyde.cts.com> <1992Dec30.122028.2193@engage.pko.dec.com> <bhayden.725732024@teal> <1992Dec30.193932.2582@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com> <bhayden.725781710@teal>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:03:40 GMT
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- bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) writes:
-
- >dan@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com (Dan Breslau) writes:
-
- >>bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) writes:
-
- >>>busta@vicki.enet.dec.com writes:
-
- >>>> 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.
-
- >>>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".
-
- >>And that vast Democratic majority in Congress was clearly imposed
- >>on the American people by a vast Communist conspiracy.
-
- It's really not nice to leave out the smiley I added -- no matter
- how clear it may be to you that I was being ironic.
-
- >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.
-
- Oh, so when Democratic incumbents in Congress get re-elected due to
- the privileges of incumbency, that's unfair competition; but when
- Reagan, using the bully pulpit of the White House, gets re-elected by
- a small majority of those who bothered to vote (*), that's a mandate.
-
- (*) Some talk of the '84 election as a landslide, but really, it
- was such only by the electoral vote, not the popular vote. The
- last *real* landslide, IMHO, was Johnson over Goldwater in '64.
-
- >Note also that Reagan had more votes than all of the democrats
- >in either one of the houses.
-
- Lies, damn lies, and.... This is a meaningless statistic if
- ever I saw one. To make the comparison meaningful, you'd have
- to add in all the votes given to the Democrats who *lost* their
- bids for Congressional seats.
-
- >Bruce E. Hayden
- >(303) 758-8400
- >bhayden@csn.org
-
- --
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- Dan Breslau
- dan@codex.com
- "Why quote someone else?" -- Paul E. Hoffman
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