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		<title>By: MarkH</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/restoring-our-values/#comment-1106425</link>
		<dc:creator>MarkH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1105942&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Argonaut @ 55&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Excuse me, but we need to *enforce* the Constitution, not ‘restore’ it. If we have learned anything in the last seven years it is that laws don’t enforce themselves. We have the greatest set of laws in the history of mankind and look where we are. Let’s bring Congress to a screeching halt and impeach the bastards. Win or lose, that’s a better use of our time than passing laws that nobody is going to enforce until they have a 400 seat majority.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ditto!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1105942"><em>Argonaut @ 55</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Excuse me, but we need to *enforce* the Constitution, not ‘restore’ it. If we have learned anything in the last seven years it is that laws don’t enforce themselves. We have the greatest set of laws in the history of mankind and look where we are. Let’s bring Congress to a screeching halt and impeach the bastards. Win or lose, that’s a better use of our time than passing laws that nobody is going to enforce until they have a 400 seat majority.</p>
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<p>Ditto!</p>
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		<title>By: Argonaut</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/restoring-our-values/#comment-1106228</link>
		<dc:creator>Argonaut</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Christy - I was talking about the RESTORE act itself, not your comment. And I’ll repeat I don’t care how outstanding a human being Rep. Holt is, or how marvelous the RESTORE Act is, passing laws is no more effective than passing gas if you can’t/won’t enforce them. I fear the Dems would tell you that passing RESTORE *is* upholding the rule of law. It ain’t.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christy &#8211; I was talking about the RESTORE act itself, not your comment. And I’ll repeat I don’t care how outstanding a human being Rep. Holt is, or how marvelous the RESTORE Act is, passing laws is no more effective than passing gas if you can’t/won’t enforce them. I fear the Dems would tell you that passing RESTORE *is* upholding the rule of law. It ain’t.</p>
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		<title>By: Christy Hardin Smith</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/restoring-our-values/#comment-1106001</link>
		<dc:creator>Christy Hardin Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Argonaut — it was a play on words on the House RESTORE act.  Since Holt was a major player in it and the start of the post, it was a sort of punny title.  Humor…it’s not just for breakfast any more.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Argonaut — it was a play on words on the House RESTORE act.  Since Holt was a major player in it and the start of the post, it was a sort of punny title.  Humor…it’s not just for breakfast any more.</p>
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		<title>By: Argonaut</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/restoring-our-values/#comment-1105942</link>
		<dc:creator>Argonaut</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Excuse me, but we need to *enforce* the Constitution, not ‘restore’ it. If we have learned anything in the last seven years it is that laws don’t enforce themselves. We have the greatest set of laws in the history of mankind and look where we are. Let’s bring Congress to a screeching halt and impeach the bastards. Win or lose, that’s a better use of our time than passing laws that nobody is going to enforce until they have a 400 seat majority.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excuse me, but we need to *enforce* the Constitution, not ‘restore’ it. If we have learned anything in the last seven years it is that laws don’t enforce themselves. We have the greatest set of laws in the history of mankind and look where we are. Let’s bring Congress to a screeching halt and impeach the bastards. Win or lose, that’s a better use of our time than passing laws that nobody is going to enforce until they have a 400 seat majority.</p>
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		<title>By: peony</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/restoring-our-values/#comment-1105939</link>
		<dc:creator>peony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1105505&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;rwcole @ 14&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hastert resigning to spend more time with his lawyers- to avoid spending more time with other criminals in close quarters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;17 House Repubs so far will not be seeking reelection in ‘08.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1105505"><em>rwcole @ 14</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Hastert resigning to spend more time with his lawyers- to avoid spending more time with other criminals in close quarters.</p>
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<p>17 House Repubs so far will not be seeking reelection in ‘08.</p>
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		<title>By: peony</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/restoring-our-values/#comment-1105912</link>
		<dc:creator>peony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1105487&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;AZ Matt @ 4&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bush thinks that we are so lucky that he came along to give us his “Bush Family Values”.  What more could we need?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Molly Ivins did warn us about him prior to the 2000 election.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh, well then, he’s far too modest at assessing his own “genius.”  How bout “to talk about him is to drain the vocabulary of superlatives.”  Or, if you still are in doubt, how bout Fran Townsend’s homage:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;”    In 1937, the playwright Maxwell Anderson wrote of President George Washington: There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, til all men walk on higher ground in their lifetime.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;    Mr. President, you are such a man.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;rightiyo there, Frances…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1105487"><em>AZ Matt @ 4</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Bush thinks that we are so lucky that he came along to give us his “Bush Family Values”.  What more could we need?</p>
<p>Molly Ivins did warn us about him prior to the 2000 election.</p>
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<p>Oh, well then, he’s far too modest at assessing his own “genius.”  How bout “to talk about him is to drain the vocabulary of superlatives.”  Or, if you still are in doubt, how bout Fran Townsend’s homage:</p>
<p>”    In 1937, the playwright Maxwell Anderson wrote of President George Washington: There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, til all men walk on higher ground in their lifetime.</p>
<p>    Mr. President, you are such a man.”</p>
<p>rightiyo there, Frances…</p>
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		<title>By: Sojourner</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/restoring-our-values/#comment-1105874</link>
		<dc:creator>Sojourner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1105496&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Veritas78 @ 8&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ONLY reason they are fighting so hard is because they must hide something intolerable, like spying on their political enemies, or the citizenry in general. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We haven’t seen this much diligence on a single legimitate task they’ve attempted, so it’s GOT to be something crooked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Perhaps crooked… But I am increasingly thinking that there are other psychological considerations, as well. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Junior seems to have a real big chip on his shoulder. I used to know someone like him who had never done anything right in his life, and that was because he was always trying to do the opposite of what his parents told him. He was just determined to do it his way — but he was extremely secretive about it, to the point that he would not tell anyone anything.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cheney is probably just as bad, but if you consider that Junior is probably rebelling against him too (or as much as he can), then our Prez has a real problem. He does not want anyone to know anything about what he does or wants to do, because he is afraid of questions and comments.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He probably has no idea how much people detest this administration, simply because he is so insecure that his informational briefs are censored or filtered. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt that a lot of what has gone on has been somewhat crooked, but maybe it has happened for reasons that have not been considered. Regardless, it has to end so that we can save our country!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1105496"><em>Veritas78 @ 8</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>The ONLY reason they are fighting so hard is because they must hide something intolerable, like spying on their political enemies, or the citizenry in general. </p>
<p>We haven’t seen this much diligence on a single legimitate task they’ve attempted, so it’s GOT to be something crooked.</p>
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<p>Perhaps crooked… But I am increasingly thinking that there are other psychological considerations, as well. </p>
<p>Junior seems to have a real big chip on his shoulder. I used to know someone like him who had never done anything right in his life, and that was because he was always trying to do the opposite of what his parents told him. He was just determined to do it his way — but he was extremely secretive about it, to the point that he would not tell anyone anything.</p>
<p>Cheney is probably just as bad, but if you consider that Junior is probably rebelling against him too (or as much as he can), then our Prez has a real problem. He does not want anyone to know anything about what he does or wants to do, because he is afraid of questions and comments.</p>
<p>He probably has no idea how much people detest this administration, simply because he is so insecure that his informational briefs are censored or filtered. </p>
<p>There is no doubt that a lot of what has gone on has been somewhat crooked, but maybe it has happened for reasons that have not been considered. Regardless, it has to end so that we can save our country!</p>
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		<title>By: cynic</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/restoring-our-values/#comment-1105715</link>
		<dc:creator>cynic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1105564&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;selise @ 43&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1105546&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Loo Hoo. @ 41&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I opened it the other day, selise.  When you guys first got it up.  Worked really well.  Amazing work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;on a pc? with outlook?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, that’s what I’ve got, and it really rocked!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1105564"><em>selise @ 43</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-1105546"><em>Loo Hoo. @ 41</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>I opened it the other day, selise.  When you guys first got it up.  Worked really well.  Amazing work.</p>
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<p>on a pc? with outlook?</p>
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<p>Well, that’s what I’ve got, and it really rocked!</p>
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		<title>By: cynic</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/restoring-our-values/#comment-1105710</link>
		<dc:creator>cynic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1105522&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;newtonusr @ 29&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1105519&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;selise @ 27&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;wow! it’s newtonur’s birthday!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;hippy bird day two ewes, newt!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and what can we do to celebrate?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Keep kicking ass, selise. That will do me just fine, thank you!&lt;br /&gt;
And from seeing the work you put into the Senate version of the v-card files, I don’t envy you the chore of putting together the House version! Will assist any way I can.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that was a hell of a nice file!&lt;br /&gt;
No, I don’t mean “heckofajob.”&lt;br /&gt;
I sincerely mean thank you. Probably speaking for all of us.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-1105519"><em>selise @ 27</em></a></p>
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<p>wow! it’s newtonur’s birthday!</p>
<p>hippy bird day two ewes, newt!</p>
<p>and what can we do to celebrate?</p>
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<p>Keep kicking ass, selise. That will do me just fine, thank you!<br />
And from seeing the work you put into the Senate version of the v-card files, I don’t envy you the chore of putting together the House version! Will assist any way I can.</p>
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<p>Yeah, that was a hell of a nice file!<br />
No, I don’t mean “heckofajob.”<br />
I sincerely mean thank you. Probably speaking for all of us.</p>
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		<title>By: Beerfart Liberal</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/restoring-our-values/#comment-1105598</link>
		<dc:creator>Beerfart Liberal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Rush makes me proud to be from NJ.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Upstream Red Team!  Red Team Upstream! R - U RAH!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rush makes me proud to be from NJ.</p>
<p>Upstream Red Team!  Red Team Upstream! R &#8211; U RAH!!!</p>
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