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Stephen Miller: we live in perilous times. The leader of the free world's power has become so neutered he cannot, even with the support…

On the recordApril 28, 2004
we live in perilous times. The leader of the free world's power has become so neutered he cannot, even with the support of the majority of the Senate, appoint highly qualified individuals endorsed by the American Bar to a Federal court. He cannot conduct a war without being torn to shreds by partisans with their eyes set, not on he defeat of our enemy but on the defeat of our President. The Senate has become just one big, bad, ongoing joke, held hostage by special interests, and so impotent an 18-wheeler truck loaded with Viagra would do no good. Andrew Young, one of the most thoughtful men in America, recently took a long and serious look at the Senate. He was thinking about making a race for it. After visiting Washington, he concluded that the Senate is composed of: A bunch of pompous, old-- And I won't use his word here, I would say ``folks''-- listening to people read statements they didn't even write and probably don't believe. The House of Representatives, theoretically the closest of all the Federal Government to the people, cannot restrain its extravagant spending nor limit our spiraling debt, and incumbents are so entrenched you might as well call off 80 percent of the House races. There are no contests.…
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Nullifier · South Carolina

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Criticizing the current state of the Senate and House of Representatives.

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