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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.

Iraq? The Republicans, ever respectful of the military (and bad publicity) will not subject the woman (yes, get ready for that, too) who succeeds General Petraeus a tough interrogation. They will rubber-stamp her plans, and then pray that the situation does not deteriorate. If it does, Ms. Clinton and her willing accomplices in the Press will, of course, blame it all on President Bush and Vice President Cheney -- and the public will lap it up with a spoon.

I could go on, but I don't really see the point. Mr. Lord, please wake up. Your dream is a nice one, but it's simply not reality.

p>Have you been awake since 1992? br> -- Gavin Valle br> Peapack, New Jersey /p>

Is this what the right-wing has come to? Ignoring how much the failures of the Bush administration are its own fault, and how it has damaged the conservative movement and betrayed its principles, Jeffrey Lord instead focuses on the politics of revenge. I suppose he's hoping for a repeat of the last go-around, when the right hammered on Bill Clinton from the get-go that led to a period of Republican power. But cutting through Lord's fulminations, remember the Democrats aren't dummies. Republicans are going to be victims of their own tactics and find themselves relegated to the same corner of the room they were for decades, tolerated like your crabby decrepit uncle but largely ignored. Note, please the 2-1 swing towards liberalism among the under-30s and you see what you've accomplished.

p>Better to be constructive -- but that approach appears to have slipped out of Mr. Lord's sight and off the right-wing radar. br> -- Paul B. Weinstein /p>

That's a nice fantasy Jeffrey Lord has about a future Clinton presidency but it's just that; fantasy. First off Republicans aren't vindictive. The Democrats have been banging their high chair screaming in outrage over everything but the White House menu since 2000. Don't expect the Republicans to do the same. If a genuine scandal does present itself the media will go radio silent and leaders in the GOP probably won't push the issue into the light. Barring Hillary isn't found in bed with a dead boy or live girl I don't see a Clinton administration fending of a daily barrage of meaningless tripe.

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