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br> Re: The Washington Prowler's You Heard It Here /p> p>NOT SO FAST!! Republican candidates for the top job in California are in a real bind. Davis has them in a corner. True, the Democrat code, demonstrated time and time again, has been never show weakness when faced with proof of dishonesty, lying, corruption, or incompetence, never resign, and just tough it out. If Davis breaks that code (as Torricelli did in New Jersey) and resigns, he can obviate the need for a recall election and do it at his whim. As soon as Davis realizes (if he hasn't already) that he can't win, he'll begin to negotiate his "severance" package. Once that is done and at a time when he any his party believe that the Republicans have committed maximum resources, Davis will resign. He'll turn the state over to Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, who will continue to do to California what Davis has done except there will be many new replacement individuals who will be rewarded. The California constitution has provisions for succession which supersede any recall methodology. Bustamante will be governor long before any of the named Republicans. br> -- unsigned /p> p> UNPRETTY PICTURES br> Re: Reid Collins' Let's Not Go to the Videotape : /p>

Reid Collins concludes: "...if the Iraqi beneficiaries of this don't want to believe the collateral proofs, let them maunder on in their fantastical world. We needn't have changed ours for this."

It appears to be easy for Mr. Collins to project his, and most of our, attitudes and values garnered from a lifetime of relative comfort in a free society, upon the Iraqi people and conclude that they live "fantastical" lives. All of us have fantasies and pleasant ones at that, that may even include five gallon bowls of Ben & Jerry's with a side of, say, one of the Fox news men/women, but I dare say the average Iraqi, during three decades of oppression, was happy to fantasize that today his family would not be visited upon by a member of the regime.

p>I think they needed and deserved pictures of the death of their nightmares and may they have fantasies as pleasant as ours in the future. In fact, as long as I used the Fox example, I seem to recall reading that many of them were quite elated to have access to Fox on their newly available satellite dishes. :-)

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