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- From: tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
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- Subject: Re: NO! President Bill, 72% of Americans are NOT lawyers!
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 05:36:39 GMT
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- riggs@descartes.tec.army.mil (Bill Riggs) writes:
- > 2. Did Ted know that the attorney general nominee appoointment was
- > withdrawn before he posted ? It strikes me that this appointment
- > has been gored specifically because of the political strife over
- > appointing a woman to this position. Better it would have been to allow
- > Bill to appoint Hillary to the job than to hawk the attorney
- > generalship among judges who don't want it, ideologues who want it,
- > but don't support Bill Clinton's moderate agenda, and the late Zoe
- > Baird, who suffered the fate of many "hurry up" Republican candidates -
- > and got through the screening process, only to end up embarrassing
- > the new administration. Clinton did the right thing by acting quickly
- > and aggressively to terminate the candidacy.
-
- She got gored for violating immigration law, not for being a woman.
-
- (One might say she was gored for violating tax laws, too, but the tax laws
- in question are held in about as much respect by the general public as the
- laws against speeding, so I doubt they had much to do with it.)
-
- --Tim Smith
-