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In article <3d50mm$j8i@pentagon.io.com> larrys@pentagon.io.com (Larry Smith) writes:
>In article <berlinerD0xoJs.3q4@netcom.com>,
>Guy Berliner <berliner@netcom.com> wrote:
>Guy, let me remind you that the electorate _voted_ Newt 
>Gingrich into the Speakership.  Now, they may not share his
>"militantly antienvironmental property rights zealotry",
>but they clearly feel a dose of it is just the ticket for
>handling the excesses in the opposite direction.  It is
>past time for the EPA to _realize_ and _deal_with_ its
>impact on people, or you will see more elections like
>the one just past - and it won't take many of them before
>the EPA finds itself on the chopping block.

Not really.  A Georgia Congressional district (located partly in Atlanta but mostly
in Cobb County [the Orange County of Georgia]) voted Gingrich into his Congressional
seat.  Republican Representatives then elected him to the Speakership.  Hardly vox
populi in any direct form.  Also, while the anti-environmentalist rhetoric he uses
may appeal to his voters in Cobb County, I didn't notice tearing down the national
park system, gutting the Endangered Species Act, and so on, on anyone in California's
short list of hot button issues, or for that matter on a national level.

Regardless of the issue of reform of environmental controls, any issue that Gingrich
takes up is NOT automatically a mandate from the hoi-polloi for action.

Rick
  

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