Does any US citizen believe that the Republican controlled congress will pass a meaningful ethics reform law?
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Meaningful, LOL, sorry I am skeptical of anything repuglican. I don't think they will ever pass anything meaningful to the common American people.
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Ethics in politics cannot exist.  They system doesn't allow it.\n\nShe already showed her true colors by protesting when Hastart suspended a Dem associate who leaked the NIE to the press and insisting that person's security clearance be reinstated.  Apparently it is OK for her side to break the law.
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Is anyone ever ready for democracy?
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Look further into it. This was 1989, 17 years ago. Are these all charges from one case or repeated incidents? If he was acquitted does that mean he was guilty? I haven't looked at his record yet, but I suspect there isn't much dirt on him or he wouldn't be serving on the Intelligence Committee already.\n\nSomehow the Republican Congress functioned under leaders who committed multiple federal and state felonies while in office  such as former House leader Tom DeLay. If his actions did not concern you, then perhaps the record of this guy should not make you nervous.\n\nBTW, a bill passed the Senate earlier this year that would have regulated Congress's relationships to lobbyists. The House voted it down. Perhaps this is something to write your congressman about.
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51% in House, 2/3rds in Senate, and Yes.\n-\n2/3rds vote in the Senate to Impeach will happen once the evidence gets aired on CSPAN during the trial.\n\nEvidence:\nhttp://impeachforpeace.org/evidence/\n\nAll we need is for a few Republican Congress members to realize that tying their political future to Bush reduces their chances of getting elected. Remember, one way or another, Bush is gone by 2009— but members of Congress may retain their offices beyond that date. Bush's poll numbers are extremely low, and most Americans support impeachment. This is a bipartisan movement. This means that if we make the pressure unbearable for Members of Congress, they'll turn on him to keep their own seats (like they did with Nixon). It's already starting to happen.\n\nAnd even if we only impeach on legitimate charges, and the Senate fails to do their duty.  It will only implicate the Senators who fail to do their sworn Constitutional duty.\n\nImpeach Bush Yourself:\nhttp://ImpeachForPeace.org/ImpeachNow.html
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I think it's a great idea! Clean election laws should be passed. No more special interest money flowing, but I'd still allow the average american to support a candidate by limiting contributions as they do now.\n\nThat means a CEO of a company can't give any more than what I can give. Under current law, a CEO can give his personal contributions but at the same time can also provide money through his company's PAC funds. Basically doubling what I can give.\n\nFunds distributive to a candidate should be limited, but is match base on contributions received by individuals only. He can sink all his own money into it, but that money is not matched.\n\nAs a union member of a national union that supports these types of election reforms, it gives the power back to the people.\n\nPeople need to be able to voice themselves through contributions!
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definitely no. i believe that politicians have every right to pass and execute a law that protects the interests of their people for their people only, even in a very authoritarian way. it is one way of being nationalistic.\nin an emergency in an airplane, who are you going to put an oxygen mask on first: yourself or your child? in this case, who do you serve first... citizens of your country or foreigners?
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The major flaw in this plan is the similar to the flaw in the US government.  The system of checks and balances works for each branch except the ethics commitee (or in the US the judicial branch).  Unless you are requiring a 5 judge concensus on all matters, the 3 unelected members hold all the power, simply because they happened to be  jobhunting when a position came available and were able to pass the exam.  I don't see a policy for deposing a member of the ethics committee, so I assume they hold the position for life.
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Am I concerned?  Very much so.  The other day I saw Rudy Giuliani on TV talking about God in an evangelical church.  Rudy Giuliani!  I was sick to my stomach for about 5 minutes.  It was much easier to look at the pictures of the couple that got bit by bed bugs that they keep showing on TV.  \n\nDo I think it will happen?  No.  The Republican Party is going to lose much of its moderate base if they keep this crap up.  I think that mainstream America is beginning to wake up to the real issues and understand that fundamentalists shouldn't be legislating our morals.
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I certainly hope so.\n\nI have been sick and tired of hypocrites winning in politics only because they mention their gawd every time, to be hiding their corruption under their cheap shield
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I don't think of the American conscience in these terms, so I cannot answer this question.\n\nI doubt the liberals will ever provide a consensus for morality.
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For the good of the nation and the good of the world, God, I hope so!\n\nThen we need the GOP congressives to stop spending like drunken sailors and read the Constitution, and GDubya to start vetoing the bloated bills that come to him.\n\nDo the congressives understand that their low polls are due to their failure to restrain themselves and the growth of government and their failures to support good and necessary legislation (immigration, soc.sec. reform, etc)?
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As long as this is a capitalist country. controlled mainly by big business, we will be seen as opportunist's.But the Democrats do a much better job of disguising this.and wont more for the people , So Yes things will improve.with the Republicans not having so much power.I pray for my country. God Bless The United States Of America. May we be a beacon of light for freedom and justice in the world.and please. no more killing of innocents.
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NO!\n I can not honestly say I respect the intelligence of someone who votes Republican. I can just not fathom what kind of person it takes to keep voting Republican even with all the BS Bush and his adminstration has pulled in the last 6 years.\n I can be fake nice very well,but I will not respect the opinions of people who are causing the downfall of this great country with their blind loyal faith to our President.
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I doubt it. Few, if any, politicians do their job, which is to enforce the will of the American people. I agree that most Americans are ignorant about matters of national security, but, on more public issues like taxes and health care, we are the ones with the first-hand knowledge.\n\nI am happy to see a lot of fresh faces in Washington and fewer career politicians. It was time for a good Housecleaning to get rid of the stench of corruption that had pervaded DC.\n\nPolls are important because they express what the "general public" is feeling on certain issues. They should not be used to dictate policy on national security issues, but more to get a feeling of the direction the country SHOULD be headed.
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In Reform and Conservative yes.\n\nIn orthodoxy no.
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Technically, yes.\n\nPractically, not a snowball's chance in hell.\n\nI actually believe in the limitations of government as established in the Constitution, and in the individual liberties and freedoms those limitations give us. That means no welfare, no social security, no medi-scam, no farm welfare, no corporate welfare, no bridges to nowhere, no self-aggrandizing monuments to KKK Byrd's ego with our $$ in West Virginia, no affirmative action, no government employee unions, no Depts of Education, Labor, HHS, Agriculture, etc, no nothing not authorized by that document. And I'd push to impeach every elected official or judge that acted, voted, or ruled contrary to the principles of the Constitution.\n\nAdd in my checkered past, my belief that marijuana should be legalized, etc, and I would not stand a chance. Other than myself, who'd vote for me?\n\nI'd piss off every constituency out there, almost all of them wanting to leech off others' paychecks.\n\nI'd give them freedom and liberty, but they are more interested in hand-outs and controlling others' lives.