The Congressional Betrayal of America

by Edward Cline (October 6, 2008) "...I know that I have never been so well pleased, as when I could shift power from my own, on the shoulders of others; nor have I ever been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others." -- Thomas Jefferson on his presidency, January 1811* "Howard, have you ever held power over a single human being?" "No. And I wouldn_t take it if it were offered to me_.It was offered to me once. I refused it_I had to." "Why?_Out of respect for the man?" "_Out of respect for myself."** To his pathetic, costly and destructive legacy President George W. Bush has added the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (H.R. 1424) passed by a corrupted Congress on October 3. He anxiously signed it into law less than ninety minutes... [read full story]