Word: barres
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What could possibly induce die-hard conservatives Bob Barr and Henry Hyde and confirmed liberals John Conyers and Barney Frank to pose together ?- holding hands in "go team!" style, no less ?- just four months after impeachment ended? Turns out it?s something like principles. The four former foes led the House of Representatives in a resounding rollback of the government?s right to confiscate the property based on pure suspicion ?- like nabbing someone carrying a lot of cash because he might be dealing drugs. "During impeachment, Judiciary Committee members would always say that their reputation for contentiousness was overblown, that...
...BARR'S SHINING EXAMPLE...
Georgia representative Bob Barr's rationalization of his appearance before the Council of Conservative Citizens [LETTERS, March 1] was a joke. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone, Democrat or Republican, who believes that neither Barr nor his staff inquired about the aims of the council, which is described as a "white-supremacist group," prior to his arranging to speak before it. Barr's denial of knowing what the organization was all about is another shining example of the hypocrisy that Barr and many of his sanctimonious Republican colleagues have come to practice. MARVIN ROBERTSON Roseville, Miss...
REPRESENTATIVE BARR RESPONDS...
...BARR, U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 7th District, Georgia Washington...