Posted on 04/23/2004 6:08:45 PM PDT by truth4
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:41:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
As dumb as it gets.
Who cares!? She would ONLY have lobbed Chris Matthews's style SOFTBALLS at any of her co-workers, because making THEM look bad, makes HERSELF look bad.
But as a member of the administration that is DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED to the current White House, she has NO BUSINESS grilling, judging, sifting evidence in order to SPIN THIS for the upcoming election in favor of democrats! Our 3000+ dead deserve better.
REMARKS BY CONGRESSMAN GEORGE E. BROWN, JR.
Snip...Much of this upheaval seems unthinking, driven simply by a desire to reduce the budget and eliminate Federal programs and agencies. Former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, in explaining his reasons for not seeking the Republican nomination for Senate in that state, said recently, "If the whole priority is just reducing the budget, you're just crunching numbers and you don't have a guiding philosophy and that's not governing." The absence of a policy debate on this guiding philosophy, which in the Science Committee translates into the lack of a full discussion on science policy, is the most unsettling part of the current political process.
Paul C. Light, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, said at this point, she should participate in everything.
Be a witness and swear under oath before the 911 commission.
LOL!
Your posts on Kean have me wondering who his financiers and political allies were in New Jersey. As I'm looking stuff up I see his family's political connections go way back:
Kean is a member of a New Jersey political dynasty going back to the 1800s; his grandfather, Hamilton Fish Kean, was an investment banker worth nearly $50 million (circa 1937!), and part of the Republican machine of J.P. Morgan. (America's Sixty Families. By Ferdinand Lundberg. The Vanguard Press, 1937 & 1938.)
KEAN, Hamilton Fish, 1862-1941
KEAN, Hamilton Fish, (father of Robert Winthrop Kean, brother of John Kean [1852-1914], and great-grandson of John Kean [1756-1795]), a Senator from New Jersey; born at ‘Ursino,’ his ancestral estate near Elizabeth, in Union Township, Union County, N.J., February 27, 1862; attended the public schools of Elizabeth, N.J.; graduated from St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H.; engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits; member, Republican National Committee 1919-1928; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in 1924; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1928 and served from March 4, 1929 to January 3, 1935; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934; engaged in banking until his death in New York City, December 27, 1941; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
So Kean's grandfather was part of the political machine in New Jersey during Prohibition--interesting. . .Reminds me of something:
"Organized Crime", The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001
The organized-crime syndicate in the United States is a product of the prohibition era of the early 20th cent. The efforts of federal officials to enforce the unpopular Volstead Act (see Volstead, Andrew Joseph) of 1920 generated the growth of highly organized bootlegging rings with nationwide and international contacts. Although loose alliances were joined among such groups as the Al Capone mob of Chicago, the Detroit Purple gang, and the Owney Madden ring of New York City, gang wars and gangland killings were distinctive features of the 1920s. Powerful gangs corrupted local law-enforcement agencies, even gaining access to high-ranking judges and politicians, such as mayors Frank Hague in Jersey City, N.J., and James J. (Jimmy) Walker in New York City.
HNN Series: My Life as a Historian ... THOMAS FLEMING
For those who don't remember him, Frank Hague was a combination of Boss Tweed and Carlo Gambino. He ran Jersey City and the state of New Jersey from 1917 to 1949. If you objected to the way he ordered the body politic, the safest thing to do was leave the state--and probably the country.
David Dayton McKean, The Boss: The Hague Machine In Action, 1940, Chapter 5: "BIPARTISAN OPERATIONS"
Nominating a Republican governor in 1928, Larson. The deals with Hoffman. Putting Frank Hague, Jr., on the Court of Errors and Appeals. Control of the Republican Party in Hudson County. The dare to investigate, and the bipartisan frustration of the Young Committee
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Mayor Hague's partisan convictions have been equally flexible. Although his speeches and public statements have urged upon his supporters unflinching allegiance to the Democratic Party, he has found it expedient upon occasion to engage in trading with the enemy. This activity would be party treason if engaged in by a subordinate, and would lead to instant expulsion from the organization; but when done by the high command it takes on that peculiar sanctity which people attribute to success. It has been successful, beyond doubt, for the Mayor not only controls the Democratic Party in New Jersey but an important segment of the Republican Party as well. This control is not absolute, but is rather a sort of ad hoc understanding renewable as new events bring new problems. These temporary agreements have been more satisfactory than an outright alliance, for they have left him greater freedom of action: the Republicans have always to be asking for his support. Many American state bosses have been able through their control of the majority party to dominate a state, but none except Mayor Hague has been able to dominate his state through the minority party.
Of course this was the era of Kean's grandfather. But it has me curious about whether there's continuity there with Kean's own era in New Jersey politics, so I thought I'd toss that out there if anyone wants to help dig into it.
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