Wrong Side of the Table (Jamie Gorelick)

NRO ^ | 4/12/2004 | Ethan Wallison

[jonno]

I also can't understand how Ben-Venista and Kerry got on this committee?

I think this is more of the "rope-a-dope " strategy. The administration, as Dr. Rice so admirably displayed, was indeed at the helm. But indeed they WERE blind-sided.

Put BenV. Gorelick, and Kerry on the commission, let them flail around, expend a bunch of political capital, and discover (hopefully along with the 'mercan people), that there is no "there", there.

[plain talk]

Along with Gorelick, I also can't understand how Ben-Venista and Kerry got on this committee? All three are highly partisan and had a stake in the Clinton administration, which is being investigated here?????

I understand how they were recommended for the committee since the Dem and Republican leaders each selected commission members for each side. What I don't understand is how our side allowed the rules for formulation of the commission to allow dems to select anybody they wanted without any veto power by the Republcians (and vice-versa). This is a major Republican screw-up IMO. But now that it's done, our side should be educating the people about these members and discrediting the dems on the commission BEFORE the report is issued.

[plain talk]

here's more on how it happened:

I found this at http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/wot/sept11/911commission.html
"... The New York Times reported, “The accord called for a panel of 10 private citizens of "national recognition" with backgrounds in public service, law enforcement, commerce and foreign affairs. Four would be appointed by Democratic leaders in the House and Senate and four by Republican leaders. One co-chairman would be appointed by the president, and a second co-chairman by the Democratic leader of the Senate in consultation with his counterpart in the House.”

[Mo1]

Oh yea, I'm sure Gorelick will be asking the tough questions / sarcasm>

[Ben Hecks]

I've heard that Gore-lick is changing her name to Reno-lick.

[nuconvert]

BUMP

[lentulusgracchus]

Darn, I will probably miss the Reno appearance as I have to be out. I know there should be some good notes on a live thread, though, and I hope there is careful attention to the Gorelick part.

I'll be interested to see whether Gorelick is actually in her chair when Reno testifies, or whether she's called away by an "emergency".

[lentulusgracchus]

It's unimaginable how they would have reacted had President Bush put those reforms [the Patriot Act] in place before 9/11.

Well, I know how I'd have reacted if Clinton had done it in 1998 or 1996 -- particularly in 1996, after he had, the previous year, basically accused Newt Gingrich of driving the Ryder truck to Oklahoma City and Rush of having lit the fuse. I'd have assumed that Clinton was attempting to reverse the outcome of the 1994 elections through his very most favoritest gimmick -- indicting, trying, and convicting his political detractors of some felony charge.

And that would have been a very real possibility. After all, Clintonoid political commentators had run up that "1992 was the rubber match and we won history; time to put Rush in jail!" stuff a couple of years before, in the middlebrow opinion magazines.

I'd have had the same problems with the Patriot Act that I do now (how do you catch terrorists when you afford them civic rights and insist that police and investigative agencies treat them like citizens? and if you make an exception for terrorists, how long before the exception widens to swallow all political opposition to the Executive?), but if they'd been authored by the worst man to be president since Lyndon Johnson, I would have been very, very deeply suspicious.

[lentulusgracchus]

But let's just have a nice conversation with the great Bubba, right all you Demo partisan *ssholes on the Commission???????

Very good question. Slick is no longer the Executive. He's just another citizen now. Let's get him in there and answer some tough questions for a change. Of course, it wouldn't be fair to him to let either Hillary or Monica sit behind him -- and cruel and unusual to seat both of them back there. Come to think of it, it might turn into an episode of "Jerry Springer", right there during a hard-news, gavel-to-gavel event.

[lentulusgracchus]

Sounds like a commission convened to offend nobody in office, while palliating the people holding pictures of their dead relatives.

[plain talk]

Well the way the dems stacked the deck with its partisan members, it sounds like a commission destined to focus exclusively on the Bush admin while ignoring the Clinton admin.

[AmericanVictory]

Attention, black conservatives and those circulating in liberal circles with ears open: let's collect reactions to watching partisan slime like Ben-Veniste try to trash this fine, intelligent, capable person and thrust them into public attention. It will help increase the exodus of smart folks from the captive minority liberal plantation and bring out the idiotic whuppers-in like Jackson.

"How come you don't sing like you're sposed to, Condoleeza?"

[Smartass]