Humor_In_Cuneiform
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Thu Sep-22-05 07:25 PM
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Nixon administration actively sought "dirt" on 'liberal" SCOTUS justices |
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in hopes of making them resign so he could change the nature of the court by appointing conservative justices, like Rehnquist.
Just skimming "The Brethren" by Bob Woodward and a co-author.
Abe Fortas did resign, a couple others divested themselves of the connections that Nixon admin was planning to use against them.
And that era was Rove's training and practice ground for dirty tricks etc.
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Thu Sep-22-05 07:27 PM
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1. I think Nixon would have dug up dirt |
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on pat if he thought it would have helped him
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Humor_In_Cuneiform
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Thu Sep-22-05 07:30 PM
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4. And yet most here who lived through Watergate still |
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believe that the current admin is far worse than Nix..
Including me.
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Thu Sep-22-05 07:29 PM
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2. we will need to do this with rightwing judges when this administration |
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...falls. We will need to take the misbegotten appointments of this misbegotten administration and force their resignations.
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Thu Sep-22-05 07:29 PM
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3. LBJ kept recordings and photos |
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and often had anyone 'annoying' audited...to the last penny.
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Humor_In_Cuneiform
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Thu Sep-22-05 07:35 PM
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5. Abe Fortas was a friend of LBJ's and had |
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acquired a fortune.
Not being able to sustain the lifestyle he was accustomed to on the salary of a SCOTUS, he was taking outside money that was his undoing.
LBJ was not an example of the best of the Democratic party.
Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, the original, was another like him, only more so. The last of the big city party bosses, party machines.
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Thu Sep-22-05 07:42 PM
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6. You're wrong about Richard Daley. |
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He wasn't the last of the big city party bosses of party machines. Have you checke out his son?
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Humor_In_Cuneiform
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Thu Sep-22-05 07:45 PM
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7. I'm not following Chicago politics like I did when I lived in |
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"Chicagoland."
Are you saying that his son runs Chicago with the same "efficiency" that sr. did?
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