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...during reading period over at Kirkland Pictures, that house's film society beat Mather's for lowest attendance one night. "I remember one night we were showing The Blob" says Gage. "We went to set up and show the film. But nobody came, and five people were studying in the dining hall, so we left...
...latest attempt to destory the blob by Phil Gramm (R-Texas) and Warren Rudman (R-N.H.) has fallen short. They had hoped to turn the fight over to one man, President Reagan. "He will save us from the monster," they cried while hiding under their desks from lobbyists knocking at their doors...
Congress approved their bill, which destroyed its power to control the budget, and transferred the rest to the President. The bill neutralized the organizational weapon of the blob by mandating budget reductions into law. No longer would congressmen be subject to popular pressure; PACs could no longer attack them for voting down the funding of a project dear to the heart of some special interest group...
...AMERICANS CAN cheer the recent federal appeals court decision declaring the Gramm-Rudman law unconstitutional. Federal judges decided that the Gramm-Rudman script to end the real-life version of "The Blob" was the wimps way out. Congress had run from the lobbyists...
When our elected officials take a firm stand and realize the difference between special interest and everyone's interest they will have the strength to take back the halls of the capitol. Only when this happens will the power of the blob shrink...