Fuss Over Ethics and Officeholders
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That’s a real smooth, typical Republican ploy: Bush proposing to bring special prosecutors under the benevolent supervision of the Justice Department, whose shortcomings are the occasion for appointing them in the first place!
It is understandable. But for the special counsel, the Iran-Contra affair could have been hushed up, exactly as Meese and his White House and congressional cronies would have wished. And Bush himself, but for the evidence now brought out at Oliver North’s trial, might have escaped the cloud of complicity hovering over his head.
It’s a transparent ploy: sugar-coat the poison pill. Another move toward the Republican dream of the El Supremo presidency.
But have they given any thought to what the consequences would be for them (or, indeed, the country) if we elect a Democratic President?
FREDERIC E. PAMP
Santa Ynez
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