Mickey Edwards
Mickey Edwards
Marvin Henry "Mickey" Edwardsis a former Republican congressman who served Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 1977 to 1993...
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Lobbying is a constitutionally protected activity because the opposite of lobbying is to treat public officials as demigods.
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This is at a scale that is really shocking. There is a certain kind of arrogance that in the past you might not have had. They were so supremely confident that there didn't seem to be any kind of moral compass here.
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The Bush administration is certainly not the first administration to do this kind of thing, ... but they seem much more heavy-handed about it.
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The president is always somewhere on the horizon in any midterm election, and in this one it might very well be more than the usual referendum on the president. Bush could be a heavy shadow in this election.
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The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.'
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It's easy to talk about our system not functioning. It's actually functioning exactly the way we've designed it to function by giving so much power to the political parties, which all of our, you know, leading founders - Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison - all said don't create political parties like the ones we have now. We did it, and we're paying a very high price for it.