OT: Re: Eliot Spitzer, antismoking leader, self-destructs

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:07:33 -0500, "HeyBub" <heybub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>tim wrote:
>>
>> This saga prompts a thought...
>>
>> I was wondering why the Democratic majority in congress has been so
>> tame and has basically gone along with just about everything George
>> W. Bush has wanted for the past year. This case may actually offer a
>> clue.
>
>I wouldn't say they've been "tame." In the past year, there have been 
>seventeen resolutions, bills, and whatnot introduced, debated, and voted 
>upon requiring the U.S. to leave Iraq. All have failed. On the other
hand, 
>prior to the Democrats taking over the Congress, there were 24
consecutive 
>quarters of economic growth. This, in spite of 9-11, Katrina, the war,
and 
>other significant events. It took the Democrats less than a year to ****
it 
>all up.
>
>>
>> With the massive expansion of monitoring of emails, financial
>> transactions, credit card records, phone calls, Internet accesses and
>> s forth by the government since the 9/11 attack, there must
>> be a huge amount of material available to the administration.
>
>Republicans don't do that sort of thing. 
>
Sin and misuse of prosecutorial power are both bi-partisan and
bi-ideological.