With respect to the judicial appointment question it must be noted that an important element of that involves who controls the Senate. Bush and some of the other earlier Repugs (Nixon, Ford) were pressured to appoint somewhat more moderate Supreme Court justices (if not necessarily at the lower levels) because their appointments had to get approved by a Democrat controlled Senate. After his first two years Clinton has been facing the opposite situation with the Senate Repugs being very aggressive and all but promising to block any obviously "liberal" appointees. Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 3:40 PM Subject: Re: A Personal Note
>At 01:22 PM 4/20/99 -0400, Doug wrote:
>>Tom Lehman wrote:
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>>>"Another concern is that the Republicans will successfully elect a new
>>>national team in this country next year, partly by playing off against
>>>the
>>>perceived failure of the Democratic administration's Kosovo policy. In
>>>this,
>>>they will follow the lead of Eisenhower, who successfully argued in 1952
>>>that
>>>he would clean up the Democratic mess in Korea."
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>>>>From a personal note I received this morning from a prominent
>>>Philadelphia area Democrat.
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>>And remind me what would be so terrible about this? Might a Republican end
>>welfare, double the jail population, launch hideous foreign wars, and tell
>>lies from dawn until dusk?
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>Well, some of my female and gay friends are convinced that under a Repug
>administration their civil rights would suffer a serious setback. Another
>issue to consider is working of gov't agencies, like EPA, FDA or HUD.
>Clinton boosters claim that inner cities would be much worse off under a
>Repugs administration than under Clinton. Ditto for the unions. As to
>judicial appointments, you have already mentioned that Clinton's are to the
>right of those of Bush, but I remain somewhat skeptical.
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>But to be honest, I dunno, I'm only trying to play devil's advocate.
>Methinks, however, that seeing Repugs controlling the White House, the
>Congress and the Senate is unlikely. The ruling classes would not allow
>such a PR blunder. It would seriously undermine the myth of American
>"democracy."
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