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To: betty boop
I think this is Hillry's show. Old Bill is more like the spoiled two year old that continually outwits the parents.

One of the major reasons for my thinking this is that Leon Panetta's position was about chaperoning Bill Clinton while in the White House.

Hillry was per Bill Clinton's own words "co-president" and I believe that she was the one who made policy, hired and fired.

One thing these Clintons did was to place these political appointees into civil service positions which are not positions that President Bush could vacate without cause. I also believe that the Clintons war room never ended just was transitioned from the White House to a Senate space.

I call her Hillry because that is what Bill calls her.
143 posted on 04/26/2006 2:31:11 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts; Fedora; Alamo-Girl; marron; hosepipe; Doctor Stochastic; Dark Skies
One thing these Clintons did was to place these political appointees into civil service positions which are not positions that President Bush could vacate without cause.

What an excellent catch, Just mythoughts! I didn't notice that -- til now. Thank you!

So do you suppose that sedition and treason might serve as appropriate/just causes for their removal, provided of course the charges can be proved in court, and validated by a jury in each instance?

I alluded to Clintons' mafioso-like tendencies in an earlier post. Since then, I feel like I owe Vito Corleone an apology. At least Vito was (arguably) a man of honor.

So, I take back the "mafioso" allusion, and cite instead Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince. Clinton is Machiavelli's classic "fox," in the flesh. And he/she's doing what the classical "fox" ever does: He/she's going after the classical "lions," seeking their utter destruction as unacceptable competitors to him/herself and impediments to the fulfillment of his/her most deeply-cherished dreams/plans.

If you haven't read The Prince yet, you might want to put it on your list. It's a fascinating work, an early exploration into the nuts and bolts of how people who manage to insinuate themselves into power, and retain it by ruthless means, can theoretically feed off all the rest of us "forever."

Of course, the work has an abject literary history: Machiavelli composed it for, and dedicated it to, the Grand Duke Ludovico di Medici. It is an act of grovelling for His Majesty's patronage, for a position at His Majesty's Court, in the most abject and grotesquely, vacuously unflattering ways -- to himself, Machiavelli, I mean.

In the end, Ludovico did not give Machiavelli the gig.

There is justice in that, somehow, under the circumstances. For Ludovico was not exactly "lily-white" himself....

Thank you so very much for sharing your thoughts, Just mythoughts!

147 posted on 04/26/2006 3:42:41 PM PDT by betty boop (The world of Appearance is Reality’s cloak -- "Nature loves to hide.")
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To: Just mythoughts
One thing these Clintons did was to place these political appointees into civil service positions which are not positions that President Bush could vacate without cause. I also believe that the Clintons war room never ended just was transitioned from the White House to a Senate space.

What specific positions are you referring to? Do you have any examples?

150 posted on 04/26/2006 8:29:28 PM PDT by kabar
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