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Lobbyists, money and corruption	excon	11/30/05
Hello experts: You do know that the congress has been sold to the highest bidder. Lobbyists even write legislation. Lobbyists suck. I hope they ban 'em - ALL OF 'EM. You? excon
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tomder55		11/30/05
They sure strain their relationship with free speech advocates but I am more concerned with politicians with their hands in the honey pot . Duke Cunningham could've quit Congress ;got a job on K Street and then all the stuff he got would've been legal but he was sworn to the public trust . On the tenth of May, 1972 Lieutenant Randy Cunningham and his partner LT(JG) Willie Driscoll would shoot down two MIGs, making them the first American aces of the Vietnam War.He went on to be a Top Gun trainer . His is a real sad story ;the fall of a genuine hero to hubris. The making of a Greek Tragedy . The Repubicans came into Washington in 1994 as the reformers to the system ;they apparently got caught up in it instead. Ethics rules have grown to the size of the tax code and yet the nature of the beast hasn't changed .The temptation grows as the size of the government does . I hope Cunningham enjoyed his commode . I have a feeling the crapper he sits on in jail will not be as comfortable.

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