This is prima facie of Senator Lott’s pragmatic opposition to the first amendment to the constitution that he is SWORN to uphold: ‘Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech’.

His foolishness in this matter reveals an unfittness for his office. Maybe not in managerial ability but in an obtuse absence of restraint that only a proponent of big government, from the left or the right, would have.

I must confess, I secretly sometimes hope the liberals will someday get their wishes just to prove to them that thousands of years of history can’t be ignored, no matter how good it feels. It would be better though, if they would do their social and economic experimentation in another test tube, not the U.S.

He is a trader and he hates america by lashing out at talk radio which growing by leaps and bounds. They know they control TV but their are many sources of great information found on talk radio which opposes his crap every day.

TERM LIMITS WOULD SOLVE PART OF THIS PROBLEM.

SECOND: HE NEEDS TO REMEMBER HE IS A SERVENT OF THE PEOPLE. NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

LET”S CALL HIS OFFICE AND RAISE HELL MONDAY MORNING. I WILL AND SO SHOULD YOU!

As for Lott, he managed with a straight face during the Gonzales auto da fe to to make an absurd appeal to the body’s sense of collegial priorities, as if ‘blow job” no longer suggested anything more than his coif. What a solitary, and if I may say, recherche, glob of shit is this man.

Friends, until we manage to get suburbia to tie themselves to the mast, they will always want to “get the funk down” with Circe. Men into pigs, indeed.

I go to work on a horse. You ought to try it some time.

Lott is an idiot, who also happens to be wrong. There is a large cross section of America who have issues with this bill to varying degrees from many political stripes.

What’s laughable in this thread is the assumption that the guy is right in his basic premise. It’s not talk radio that is driving this, it’s the abilty to read the news, common sense and our experience with the federal government.

The sheeple are getting really irritated with Congress. Oh the horror that legislators aren’t merely able to rubber stamp their ideas. The American people are reminding them who they work for. Sheesh, it must suck to be them.

But hey, if it makes it easier to deal with, blame the talking heads. Being correct in one’s assumptions was never a prereq for having an opinion.

Oh Trent, is it all Rush’s fault? It wasn’t his fault when he helped you guys elected, or when he calls Obama, “The MAgic Negro.” But now that you can’t get what you want out of him, NOW you’re aggravated?

You might want to research a bit before making comments. The statement about Obama was actually stated by a Los Angeles Times article, it is an absurd statement but you might want to give credit to where it originated.

The following is a link to the article:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-center

Their message about immigration and freedom of speech is right on. Let not the reasonable thinker fear guilt by asociation.

In my opinion, all good liberals should be thinking, “What the hell is going on!?”

Sleeping giants.

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Half of what makes you so funny is that you don’t see the rank hypocrisy that’s oozing out of every pore on your body.

The other half? Well, I’d just like to say…”Love your hair!”

Read the mission statement of the DHS, “We will lead the unified national effort to secure America. We will prevent and deter terrorist attacks and protect against and respond to threats and hazards to the nation. We will ensure safe and secure borders, welcome lawful immigrants and visitors, and promote the free-flow of commerce.” Fund them and allow them to do their job.

Lott and all his Republican croonies will pay a huge price for their poor decisions on immigration, as will McCain, Graham, Kyl, etc.

Can you say “Push #2 for English?”

Absolutely loretta, in the good old days INS would raid employers who hired undocumented workers. Plenty of laws on the books to do so. But Bush wants only the biggest profits for corporations and is willing to destroy working class America to achieve that end.

Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — June 15, 2007 @ 5:22 pm

This whole post is extemely informative, too bad the idiot who needed to see it is gone. Isn’t that always the way.

To me, this is simply another example of the pervasiveness of corporate influence ruining the way our government works. Today, corporations have more rights and freedoms than individual citizens. This is definitely NOT what the Founders had in mind and we need to do something about it.

Public financing of all federal elections would be a good place to start.

Adam Smith had a number of reasons for distrusting corporations, which were usually called “Chartered Accounts” in his day. One of his main problems was that a corporation would set up an independent entity, the corporate Board, which would have neither the enlightened self-interest of the owners or the stockholders. Smith reckoned that a corporate board would work in its own interest. In this way, Adam Smith predicted corporate crime as we see today in places like the Enron and Worldcom scandals.

i found your history note very interesting.

i didn’t know that a concern for corporate behavior went back so far in our history.

thanks.