Monday, October 03, 2005
WHEN THE 'FRINGE' IS IN CHARGE
"The only way to get rid of the termites eating away the people's House is to stamp them out at the next election".
"The most corrupt decade in the long and colorful history of the House of Representatives".
"What interests me is how this moderate, evenly divided nation came to be ruled on at least one side of Capitol Hill by a zealot. This (Delay) is a man who calls the Environmental Protection Agency "the Gestapo of government" and favors repealing the Clean Air Act because "it's never been proven that air toxins are hazardous to people"; who insists repeatedly that judges on the other side of issues "need to be intimidated" and rejects the idea of a separation of church and state; who claims there are no parents trying to raise families on the minimum wage—that "fortunately, such families do not exist" (at least Newt Gingrich was intrigued by the challenges of poverty); who once said: "A woman can't take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure." I could go on all day. Congress has always had its share of extremists. But the DeLay era is the first time the fringe has ever been in charge".
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On August 15, 1935, Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's plane crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow, in Alaska.