It's traditional in congress to measure a Congress' success by the number of bills it passes. Relating to earmarks and porkbarrel spending, the fewer favors you hand out, the fewer chances to sell your vote. A do-nothing Congress is bad for the local economy. But it's fine for the rest of the country. Present bill pending to control earmark is sponsored by Republicans.

Wednesday morning on FM107 A Morning Breakfast by Ian and Margery Punnett they discussed the ingestion of trans fats in food.
In order to control trans fats there are two points of view. Be responsible and make your own choices or blame McDonalds. The term "personal responsibility" was used several times by callers to describe the fact that parents should control the use of trans fats by their children. With every right and privelege there is a corresponding duty and responsibility. This is the conservative way.
The liberal way is to "pass a law" to control McDonalds and pass the responibility to them.

American voters gave Democrats the floor--- and are now waiting to hear what they have to say, especially about Iraq.

IT AIN'T SAFE TO BE NO WOMB DWELLER.

Today, I saw you on the ultra sound,
You sure ain't very big around,
Warning! Warning! Little Feller,
It ain't safe to be no womb dweller.

Since your Momma took the notion,
She can kill you without commotion,
And I ain't got no say about your life,
Cause your Momma, she ain't my wife.

But how can they call it "prochoice"
When me and the little feller got no voice?
The Supreme court sez it's a woman's right.
SO DEAR SON, GOOD NIGHT.

The federal law passed by congress in 2003 and signed by President Bush , bans the procedure known medically as "intact dilation and extraction" which typically occurs in the second trimester of pregnancy or later. It generally involves the breech delivery of a fetus (helpless live baby), followed by the collapsing of it's skull to permit removal.(I'm glad no one crushed little Olaf's head)

The roll call on this bill was:
Senate Republicans 48 yea and 4 nay.
Senate Democrats 16 yea and 30 nay.
House Republicans 218 yea and 4 nay
House Democrats 63 yea and 139 nay.

If it had been necessary to make a choice between Jill and little Olaf, who's to make the choice? Mother, father, doctor or God. Not me I hope.

Roe v Wade provides for abortion thru the second trimester and at that time it amounts to partial-birth abortion. Right now the bill is before the supreme court for consideration. As expected the supreme court's most liberal members, Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer are opposed to the statute.

Partial-birth abortion bills were vetoed by President Clinton on 4/10/1996 and 10/10/1997.

The writer has presented the facts without giving an opinion and now, with the previous discussion in mind, the reader may form his or her own learned opinion.