Word: congressmen
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...Defense of the Dems In Joe Klein's "Easy Targets for Karl Rove" [May 22], the description of Congressmen John Conyers and Charles Rangel as "embarrassments" was excessive and uncalled for. Conyers and Rangel express a clear-eyed African-American perspective gained from hard experience. Klein may not share their politics, but he still owes them respect. Adele Batchelder Rocky Hill, New Jersey...
...Congressmen Are Such Easy Marks They may have power as a group, but their junior-varsity status can get them into trouble...
...their parents were to World War II. However, the threat of a draft pulled them into civic discourse. Many ran for office, protested, and became radicals. They managed to get a constitutional amendment passed that lowered the voting age to 18, elected a new crop of congressmen, and eventually ended the war. Both those who supported and opposed the war saw an opportunity to allow their voices to be heard and wanted to participate in American democracy. The sacrifice of the draft forced involvement...
...dream, a private ambition for ourselves. But most of us will leave our dreams behind as we move through life. Unless our dreams are to become upper-middle class professionals, we will discover that our college dreams are difficult to fulfill. There are only so many senators and congressmen in the U.S. and only so many heads of states in the world. There are only 500 CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies, few major Hollywood producers, and even fewer best-selling authors. Most of them didn’t go to Harvard. None of them ever got invited...
...sure, there is intensity on the other side of the immigration debate, as the pro-immigration rallies in April showed. But those may have little impact on the 2006 congressional elections. The rallies were in cities like Los Angeles that are already represented by pro-immigrant, Democratic Congressmen. Most of the districts Republicans have to win in are places like Columbus, Ohio, and Westport, Connecticut - suburban areas without huge Hispanic voting-populations. And while Latinos are growing as a politically influential voting block, they still only account for 6% of the voting population...