Re: POL: Opposite of progress

Michael Lorrey (mike@lorrey.com)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 20:22:59 -0500

Phil Goetz wrote:

> > Transhuman Mailing List
> >
> > Well, it's 4:25 on Friday, and the House Judiciary Committee just
> > approved articles of impeachment to be sent to the floor of the House
> > for debate.
> >
> > I suppose that we can forget any other sort of legislation getting to
> > the floor before Christmas break, which may delay further restrictions
> > on such technologies as cloning and fetal research. I checked on
> > pending bills, and only one had moved out of committee as of last week.
> >
> > Kathryn AEgis
>
> When Clinton was running for re-election, I joked that
> we should all vote for Clinton in order to keep Congress busy
> and out of trouble. I didn't really mean it at the time.

Well, I'm just happy any time congress isn't thinking up some way to infringe the Bill of Rights or take more of my money. I get more entertainment value out of Clinton's drawers getting dragged through congress and the nation via c-span than just about anything the government does outside of the space program and bombing Saddam. Y'know, when congress shut down the government a couple years ago for a week, I didn't notice a thing, despite all the hooting and hollering on the news. If the impeachment can shut down the government for a whole year I'll be real happy....

Mike Lorrey