Posted on 08/31/2007 7:33:05 AM PDT by NCDragon
LOS ANGELES — Then president-elect John F. Kennedy, summarizing the challenge of announcing that he had selected his brother to be Attorney General, famously suggested that perhaps he could go out and just whisper “It’s Bobby,” and no one would pay attention.
It’s hard to imagine any U.S. president today being allowed, by the Senate or the media, the privilege of appointing his or her brother (or sister) to the top law enforcement job in the nation.
The reason family relations aren’t appropriate is the same reason a president would want a relative in the job. As a friend said to me, in some distress, shortly after Bill Clinton appointed Janet Reno to the job, “the Attorney General is the only member of the Cabinet who can put you in jail. It’s no place for a stranger,” which is what Janet Reno was to the Clinton team.
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High minded sentiments, indeed, but hardly accurate.
At one time politics was part of government. Today, government is part of politics and the hypocritical Ms. Estrich is one of the prime practicioners of the philosophy.
Firing a few more attorneys who were refusing to do their jobs would have gone a long way in my book...
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