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- From: PL436000@BROWNVM.BITNET (Jamie)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics
- Subject: Re: well, pardon me!
- Message-ID: <POLITICS%92122911122880@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 16:05:28 GMT
- Sender: Forum for the Discussion of Politics <POLITICS@UCF1VM.BITNET>
- Lines: 62
- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
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- >From: The Integral Differential <DEMON@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU>
-
- >>Nor did Walsh lose Bush. Yet. We'll see.
- >
- > Frankly, I expect Bush to do what Nixon didn't. "Lose" the documents.
-
- Ok. You've registered your prediction. We'll see.
-
- >>> Walsh is simply grandstanding, trying to get a President indicted.
- >>
- >>Well, he may be trying to get a president indicted. I think that's
- >>a special prosecutor's job. Or was Archie Cox simply grandstanding?
- >>
- >>("Impeached" is the right word, I think.)
- >
- > *If* a president is guilty. But I think Walsh just wants to be able to
- >say he got "a" president. Bush is the only one left :).
-
- Huh. Well, you're entitled to that opinion. (I'm still trying to
- one-up James in the toleration contest.)
-
- >>Note, though, that Bush could have saved a LOT of expense by acknowledging
- >>that he had the notes much earlier.
- >
- > He could have, but is there any reason why Bush should have cooperated
- >with a man like Walsh earlier? Walsh is using a shotgun, hoping he hits
- >*something* before he runs out of ammo.
-
- Yeah, there IS a reason. Bush should have cooperated so that the
- truth could have come out. Along the way, he would have helped save
- a lot of money. You remember, all that money you were complaining about?
-
- Walsh's strategy was a common one. Start with some relatively
- easy targets. As you nail some of the easy ones, you GAIN ammo
- to go after the tough ones.
- But the easier targets kept lying. They were convicted for it, and
- would have had to pay a little something, but the Big Boy handed
- out a "soft on crime" Christmas present.
-
- >>> That's why I said "supposed" to be independent. Any organization
- >>>staffed through patronage will end up like this.
- >>
- >>I agree. And Brett's suggestions about changing the way the Justice
- >>Dept. is appointed make some sense to me.
- >>
- >>Until Mitchell, though, I don't think the Attorney General was
- >>widely regarded as a "patronage" appointment. Now it's a commonplace.
- >>Jamie
- >
- > No, it was Reagan's appointments that started the downward slide.
- >(Horrors, I've said something bad about the Great One :). Most analysts agree
- >that the justice dept. in the 60s was the high point for that organization.
-
- Hmm. If the 60's WERE the high point, then the downturn did not
- start with Reagan! (Maybe I'd better go check some of the dates
- on Brett's notorious charts??)
-
- (Reagan was elected in the 80's, Brett, you probably forgot that. :-)
- There were all those 70's in between. And John Mitchell was the
- Attorney General during some of those 70's, the early ones.)
-
- Jamie
-