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Article #893Re: Supreme Court halts Florida vote count: A black day for American democracy
From: Richard Brewer
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:22
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:22
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Larry Kessler wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:02:05 -0600, "Amy" <dont@spam.me> wrote: > > >To me, this is just a bit of "what comes around, goes around". Janet Reno > >was the 3rd person submitted by Clinton for the post of attorney general. > >The Republicans are complaining about "the politics of personal > >destruction". They have been practicing it for 8 years, why should they > >expect anything different from the Democrats? > > For Republicans, the past 8 years' PoPD is just payback for Robert > Bork, a highly intelligent jurist whose reactionary viewpoints made > him totally unacceptable (to Democrats, at least) as a Supreme Court > Justice. Objecting to Bork because of his extremist legal views, and > grilling him on those views, justify in the minds of many Republicans > a personal hatred of and a scorched-earth policy toward all Democrats. They haven't seemed to need much encouragement. The real problem with Conservatives is that they are just like Communists in government. If moderates decide to try to work with either conservatives or communists, the result is that they take over the government and moderates of any kind get excluded.
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