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...Electronic town halls" featuring push-button voting have always faced one major rhetorical handicap: the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. The Founders explicitly took lawmaking power out of the people's hands, opting for a representative democracy and not a direct democracy. What concerned them, especially James Madison, was the specter of popular "passions" unleashed. Their ideal was cool deliberation by elected representatives, buffered from the often shifting winds of opinion -- inside-the-Beltway deliberation. Madison insisted in the Federalist Papers on the need to "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium...
...This generation is destined to enter the next century in a position economically, spiritually and politically inferior to their ancestors, who entered the 20th century in the shadow of slavery," Brown said...
Before Gingrich's ascendance, Robert Dole was the G.O.P.'s equivalent of a shadow President. At Newt's inaugural last week, the Senator from Kansas watched from the sidelines. He quickly exited after the festivities were over. Asked by TIME for his view of the events, he simply said, "I'd better get back to work." In the Senate the newly installed majority leader gave a speech more characteristic of Gingrich than the one the Speaker actually delivered, promising "to cut federal programs from A to Z, from Amtrak to zoological studies...
...approaches the crafty Long'er, played by Ni Da Hong, in the hopes of starting a business. Miserly Long'er lives in the house he won from Fugui's familiy, and declines to lend his former rival any money. Instead, he gives Fugui a chest of shadow puppets which become his occupation and his salvation...
...life. The loss of his house 'turns out to be a blessing in disguise. Long'er is killed during the Civil War for being a member of the elite. Forming a puppetry troupe with his old friend Chungsheng, played wonderfully by Guo Tao, Fugui travels the countryside performing shadow puppetry for a living...