Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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At one point, crowd signs blocked the TelePrompTer altogether, one official said, prompting her to ad lib one of her best lines of the night: “You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”
It called to mind President Bill Clinton’s 1993 health care address before Congress. When he began speaking, the TelePrompTer was loaded with a previous speech. It took several minutes to get the right speech up, and Clinton spoke from memory.
Asked if something like this ever happened during the Bush administration, a Republican who worked in the Bush White House shook his head and offered a glance that suggested, “of course not.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/04/palins-teleprompter-troubles/