<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Since <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">conviction needs a 2/3rds vote by the senate, Trump has nothing to worry about. The rest of us...well...</div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">
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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:20px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.8em;margin:0px auto 18px;max-width:100%;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Buried at the bottom of<span> </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-variedand-globalthreats-confronting-democracy-1511193763" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(25,85,165);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(213,213,213);zoom:1;font-size:inherit;margin-bottom:18px;line-height:1.8em">a recent column</a>, the Wall Street Journal’s Gerald Seib relayed a nugget of data he’d picked up.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:20px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.8em;margin:0px auto 18px;max-width:100%;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">“David Birdsell, dean of the school of public and international affairs at Baruch College, notes that by 2040, about 70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states,” Seib wrote. “They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators representing them.”</p>
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</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 5, 2018 8:23 AM, "Tom Hansen" <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">. . . How soon after they are sworn in (in January) will impeachment proceedings begin?<div><br></div><div>I’m guessin’ that, if the Democrats do gain such a majority, the U.S. Congress ( for the first time in history) will convene every day through the holiday break, including Christmas day. Trump won’t be available, though. He’ll be busy packing his bags for his move to Moscow (the one in Russia).<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div><br>==============================<wbr>=========================<br>
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