> Me now: of course not. But bipartisanship, which Mr. Bush claims to
> embrace, involves taking some care not to totally alienate the opposition
> and even throwing it a few bones every once in a while. Reasonable minds
> may disagree on whether that's been done so far, but I think it hasn't.
I agree he needs to throw some real bones to the opposition, but how can
people so easily predict what these appointees are going to do before they
have even been confirmed, much less actually spent a day on the job.
> If anyone doubts just how powerful Justice is in
> enforcing our laws, just take a look at the mischief to civil rights,
> affirmative action, and employment law that was done almost entirely, if
> memory serves, by two high-ranking Justice Department officials under the
> Reagan administration, (and maybe some of the G.H.W. Bush administration):
> one William Bradford Reynolds and a then-little-known attorney named
Kenneth
> Starr.
What mischief did they do? Please enlighten me because I don't recall
issues regarding those laws during the Reagan administration. I'm not being
obstinate - I truly am not aware of such issues. As for the current AG Janet
Reno, many will argue that she has also facilitated some mischief in the
area of civil rights in the form of Waco, Elian Gonzalez, the FBI files that
were gathered up improperly on employees and others in the Clinton White
House, etc.
I may be completely naive, but I just don't see how a handful of people can
successfully overturn long-standing laws such as abortion, on their
political whim. I just can't see them being able to do that and get away
with it under our current system
Kakki
