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To: Wolfstar
Points all well-taken. Your comments raise a question: Why focus only on Gorelick? Kean needs to go; Ben-Vicious needs to go; Kerrey needs to go; every Commission member who has been running wild and unchained on the talking head shows need to go. The entire Commission is a fraud, and considering the importance of its stated mission, the manner in which its members have functioned make it a scandal. Kean said yesterday that the Commission membership has been operating in a bipartisan manner. I emailed both the Commission, and a few newspapers, suggesting that a Commission this important needs to be NON-partisan, not simply bipartisan. I think we all now understand the White House's hesitancy at establishing this commission.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire Commission's work has been corrupted and therefore discredited. I will not believe anything it releases. It needs to go.

32 posted on 04/15/2004 11:01:43 AM PDT by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: My2Cents
...a Commission this important needs to be NON-partisan, not simply bipartisan.

Although it's too late, I could not agree with you more. No one who served in Congress or the executive branch during either the Clinton or GWB administrations, or who had any professional affiliation with them, should have been on the commission. The commissioners should have been well-respected business and professional leaders, members of legitimate minority parties, etc. The Republican and Democrat members could still have been former governors, mayors, state attornies general, or others with similar elective or appointive experience.

As for the chair, the only appropriate chairman would be Rudy Guiliani, in my opinion. I don't mind Hamilton as co-chair.

But, of course, this is all moot, because we're stuck with the committee we have. No amount of pressure from our quarter is going to change things, because the so-called mainstream media is absolutely stone-cold closed to our concerns. (This isn't to say we shouldn't keep trying, if for no other reason than to bug the crap out of them, and let 'em know we aren't going away.)

As for any work product put out by this hopelessly corrupt commission, there isn't a word I'd believe or trust. Not even "is," since it would depend on how Gore-lick and Ben-Veniste learned from Bubba to define it.

An aside on the "is" thing: When I witnessed, live on my TV, a president of the United States say in all seriousness, "It depends on what the meaning of the word IS, is," I thought surely it was all over for him. Yet when he not only remained in office, but his media shills were able to even gin up a moderate public backlash against Republicans (!) in the 1998 elections, that's when my faith in the American voter hit rock bottom. It has not risen from the bottom since. Hopefully, my deep cynicism about the American voter will have cause to change for the better this November.

34 posted on 04/15/2004 11:42:27 AM PDT by Wolfstar (John F. Kerry is a true Leftist idealogue — a true Leftist believer.)
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