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The Ridiculous LexisNexis Search that the Justice Department Used
[First name of a candidate]! and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or controvers! or racis! or fraud! or investigat! or bankrupt! or layoff! or downsiz! or PNTR or NAFTA or outsourc! or indict! or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd! or arrest! or intox! or fired or sex! or racis! or intox! or slur! or arrest! or fired or controvers! or abortion! or gay! or homosexual! or gun! or firearm!
Needless to say, when asked about it, Williams first said she didn't remember ever seeing it, then said she'd used an edited version just once. LexisNexis records show she used it, as shown, 25 times." Note that 'sex!' appears twice in the query. Must be VERY important.
Let's keep some perspective here. Bush catches flak for removing DOJ attorneys after a few years of trying to work with those people that were in place when he took office. An argument could be made that he tried to work with those across the aisle and realized that it was impossible.
Why didn't Clinton have the same problem? Because he FIRED THEM ALL as he took office and put his own people in. And it was CLINTON'S appointees that Bush was dealing with.
Bush politicizing the DOJ? Gimme a break!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22515
Wait a minute---you just told all the frothing, ill-informed Bush haters who have wholesale bought the Democrats' line about "politicizing" the DoJ (an agency of the highly-political Executive branch) that they don't understand Article II? And you got modded "Insightful"? On Slashdot? This must be some bizarre alternate universe.
But bravo anyway! I'm so tired of hearing this "politicization" line. There are plenty of legitimate complaints to lodge against Bush and the cut-taxes-and-still-spend Republicans in Congress, and plenty of issues open to serious, intelligent debate. This is not one of them.
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So I'm curious, when Clinton fired all 93 US attorneys was he filling political or career posts?
The point is every president replaces career posts with political allies, they just do it in a much more broad way than Bush did (Bush replaced 8, total.) Frankly "fire everyone and then rehire just those we like" seems like a fairly shady way to skirt the law.
BZZT! Karl, is that you?. If not, try turning the channel away from O'Reilly, because it's making you stupid.
When I was a kid, we only had one Darth.
The lower 50% of american workers pay NO income tax. They pay payroll and social security and that's it, they are exempt from the federal income tax.
Equitable treatment? Get a real fucking job instead of working for minimum wage or slightly above it. I'm a second year apprentice carpenter and after ~7months of working I'm making 16.73 an hour + full benefits. There is no legitimate reason to be making minimum or slightly above minimum wage unless you settle for it EXCEPT in the cases where someone is so disabled they can't work a real job.
Even if all those stories are true, which they aren't
So Clinton didn't bomb an aspirin factory the day his former mistress was supposed to testify in court?
And he never preemptively attacked Iraq?
And he didn't launch a war in the Balkans without Congressional approval?
Interesting.
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