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- From: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (J H Woodyatt)
- Subject: Re: Victory is at hand for Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.201959.12199@wdl.loral.com>
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- Organization: Abiogenesis 4 Less
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:19:59 GMT
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- nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- # Why do you think the Congress dropped FOCA after Democratic leaders
- # announced that they had almost enough votes to override a veto?
- # (My guess: 1. They did not have the votes they thought they had.
- # 2. They were afraid the public would learn just how extreme FOCA was,
- # and that would have hurt Clinton's chances.)
-
- Admittedly, I'm not on the distribution list for the Congressional
- leadership's gossip loop, but let me take a guess anyway...
-
- Because `not enough votes to override a veto' combined with
- the President's highly believable promise to veto it means
- `not enough votes for it to pass?'
-
- Both your guesses suck. #1 is simply irrational -- no suprise there.
- #2 is a conspiracy theory -- a dumb one at that.
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- --
- +---------------------------+ ``Democracy is the theory that the common
- | J H Woodyatt | people know what they want, and deserve to
- | bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com | get it good and hard.''
- +---------------------------+ -- H L Mencken
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