From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Quayle on abortion
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Date: 3 Sep 92 22:11:46 PST
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In article <1992Sep2.193605.8575@umbc3.umbc.edu> alex@engr3.umbc.edu (alex) writes:
> In article <mykes.0d78@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>, mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>
> |> > 	What country are you from? Where I live, the oppertunity to vote
> |> > out a congress member comes up every couple of years, [...]
>
> |> No, we've seen the congressional franking priviledge abused over and over
> |> again.  Fact:  the amount of money congress is spending on mail this year
> |> is 2x higher than last year.  Campaign related, I say.  And a huge benefit
> |> for the incumbent.
>
> 	Uh, huh. And the white house chief of staff is now George Bushs
> campaign manager, at taxpayers expense. what of it? He's still going to lose.
> Franking priveleges give incumbants an advantage, being able to preempt
> the duties of the Secretary of State to help with teh campaign gives
> incumbants an advantage, being able to pass out pork during the primaries
> gives incumbants an advantage, but nobody forces you to vote one way or
> another. If the people vote for people they don't like, then they get a
> government that they disserve.
>

These things bother me, too, to a certain degree.  I am not particularly happy
about Dan Quayle using Air Force 2 to make campaign trips.  Not at all.  Never
said I was, either.  But I understand the rationale behind why the president
of the United States, no matter who he is, can't charter a private plane or
fly commercially.  Same applies to the VP.

But there are term limits on the President, and even if it meant Reagan didn't
get a 3rd and 4th term, I am still happy about it.  I'm curious as to why you
believe Bush is even running for a 2nd term...

As for Baker, he has ALWAYS managed George Bush's campaigns.  It is up to them
to decide if they wish to continue that relationship.  Oh, I see.  You'd deny
George the privilige of hiring who he wants?

The franking priviledges ARE being abused.  The amount of corruption in the
congress is outrageous.  Scandal after scandal after scandal.  I am embarassed
by it, as an american.

Keating 5.  Jim Wright resigns in disgrace.  Drugs sold at the capital Post Office.
Bank overdrafts at the house bank.  The Thomas lynching (and the terrible situation
that Anita Hill was put in).  Male prostitution rings run from congressmen's homes.
Abuse of franking priviledges.  Pay raises against the will of the taxpayers.  59,000
employees to maintain 535 congress critters.

> 	So glad to have you back, Mike, I really missed your perspective,
> and nobody else seems to see things quite the way you do.
>

I didn't miss your sarcasm :)

> --
>                                Alex Crain::UMBC Academic Computing Services
> The feminist agenda is a socialist, anti-family political movement that
> encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice
> witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. - Pat Robertson 1992

I don't agree with Robertson.  However, I do believe that the Feminist movement
has done more harm than good in many respects.

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