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10.17.07 @ 12:01AM

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Re: Jeffrey Lord's Payback and the Chicken Lady:

Should Her Royal C win in '08, Jeffrey Lord predicts a Bush payback due to all "the pent-up fury of Republicans at the precedents set by Democrats during the Bush years." In this Bizarro World, Lord envisions bitter and angry Republicans calling for special prosecutors and staging filibusters. He sees a "snappish" McCain venting his righteous wrath during confirmation hearings. And my personal favorite: 'Bumper stickers appear proclaiming "Don't Give Britney or Hillary Custody of the Kids."'

Yes, well, lovely thoughts all, but this scenario is predicated on Republicans acquiring backbones. What a pity that it takes Madame Hillary winning to invigorate the DC Republicans' political passion. We here in fly-over country would have loved to have seen this reaction long before now.

Grover Norquist tried to warn us in 1992 in his prescient article "The Coming Clinton Dynasty," which appeared in the November issue of TAS (published before the election): "Conservatives who think the Clinton Administration will be a short interregnum are making a disastrous mistake. For since Watergate, Democrats have learned to deal behind the scenes to ensure their re-election -- with or without popular support."

Keep that bumper sticker, though. It's a winner.
-- Kitty Myers
Painted Post, New York

Regarding Jeffrey Lord's piece about a prospective Hillary Clinton regime, although I believe it was well written, I also can't see the Republicans acting in such a principled and outraged manner.

Since Pelosi, Reid and their crowd of scurvy Socialists have taken over, the Republicans have shown as much spine as a jellyfish (less on most occasions), and when the Republicans were in charge in the House and Senate, they failed to treat the Democrats as the minority should have been treated: Allowed to speak, but ultimately ignored as being irrelevant. The Republicans are so desperate to be loved that they cave in to everything the Democrats put forward, it seems. Now, if there were different Republican leadership, I could ALMOST see Lord's scenario coming to pass, but with the current crop of wusses, it would be more likely to see Hillary admit to actually being a power-hungry dictator wannabe than to see Republicans stand up for what's right.

There will be no "pent up fury" if I read my Republican politicians correctly (and I suspect I do). For Lord's predictions to take place, two things would need to happen:

The Republican ahem "leadership would first have to grow spines and then grow testicles...and after all these years of Bush's "New Tone," and the "inclusiveness" that was practiced when the Republicans were in the majority, those occurrences seem HIGHLY unlikely.

Nice piece of fiction, though.
-- Mr. Shannon Lucky
Bellevue, Nebraska

Mr. Lord's sharp-penned satire is right on the mark! Hill can bet her rather prominent behind that there will be no prisoners taken if and when her administration moves back into the White House (gee-do you think they will load up the wagon and bring some of the furniture etc back?). I remember the attempts by W to create a new tone, I remember W sitting down with the pompous phony Kennedy to write the education bill, I remember W NOT cleaning house of Clintonistas at Justice, I remember W not cleaning house at State, not clearing out the trash at the CIA, ad infinitum. OH and I remember ALL of the Dems giving the back of their hand to W, the military, the war effort, social security reform, the staggering incompetence of the local DEMOCRAT officials in Louisiana, the empty and pathetic attempts to paint Roberts & Alito as fascists, John Bolton, etc

I could seemingly go on forever recalling the shrill, shrieking partisanship and I, for one, guarantee that I will NOT forget that Hill and the Dems were more interested in promoting their partisan agenda than anything else.
-- Stuart Reed
Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan

With all due respect to Mr. Lord, he's living in a dream world.

There will be no "Bush Payback" for "President" Hillary Clinton. If she ascends to the Oval Office, Ms. Clinton may very well (as Mr. Lord predicts), fire all of the Republican U.S. attorneys. However, she will do so with absolute impunity. The Press will not feign outrage; to the contrary, they will squeal with glee at Ms. Clinton's "decisiveness" and "command" of the office. There will be no calls of "scandal" from the House and Senate minority leaders, and the rest of the cowardly Republicans in the House and Senate will stay silent and pretend that it never happened. No Investigations. No "special prosecutor." Nothing.

There will be no Republican filibusters appointees to any of the Federal benches, including the Supreme Court. If they were to do so, the Press would scream "hypocrisy!" at the tops of their lungs, and the Republicans would be cowed into submission by all the negative publicity. Ms. Clinton will appoint liberal, activist judges to all of the open seats, including seats still empty from the previous administration, forever changing the face of American jurisprudence.

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