From: "Bill Mattox" 

Ours is a representative democracy, and as such it is their job to serve
the people as *representatives*, which does imply an element of
responsibility and leadership. If simple majority is your preference, why
not do away with our representatives -- and the Constitution -- entirely
and simply hook everyone up to the Internet? That way, any major decision
of this sort could be made with a simple thumbs up/thumbs down
instantaneous vote.

Heck, with such an efficient system, we wouldn't need laws either.

"Richard Hong"  wrote in message
news:3910f2f9{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> They're running for the tall grass because of the poll's
>
> Bill,
>
> So in criticizing them for doing so, you are implicitly stating that you
> would prefer to have govt officials who don't abide by public opinion?
Gee,
> and I thought their job was to serve the people.  I guess you have more in
> common with Fidel than you would like to admit.
>
> Rich
>
>
>

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