From: rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
Subject: Re: Zoe Baird should step aside
Originator: rja@mahogany126
Organization: The 1991 World Champion Minnesota Twins!
Date: 21 Jan 93 13:16:22 CST


In article <1jki43INN1ph@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>, sunder@grusin.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder) writes:
> In article <1993Jan20.130740.7551@hemlock.cray.com>, rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson) writes:
> |> 
> |> After listening to the Zoe Baird confirmation hearings,
> |> I think Zoe should do President Clinton a favor and 
> |> step aside.
> |> 
> |> Her explaination of the illegal alien thing was pathetic.
> |> I can't help but believe that Zoe & her husband knowingly
> |> broke several laws to save some money.  If confirmed, she
> |> would be responsible for enforcing the same laws that 
> |> she (IMHO knowingly) violated.
> 
> Actually, it is her (humble) opinion as well. She ADMITS knowing 
> that she was probably violating the law.
> 
> |> The final blow had to be Orin Hatch's comments that the
> |> Senate should overlook Zoe's actions and that she is the
> |> best nominee that the Republican's could hope for from
> |> a Clinton nominee.  It does not suprise me that Hatch
> |> would like her: she is exactly what I would expect a 
> |> Republican nominee to be.
> 
> Except of course, had she been a Republican, every one from
> Joe Biden through Feinstein would have been piously proclaiming
> how terrible it was.

NPR (Nina Totenberg) just said that Feinstein & Braun are working
behind the scenes to get Zoe to withdraw.  I hope it's true.

>                       The reason Orrin Hatch likes her, as you
> very well know, and your snide remarks notwithstanding, is her 
> position on tort reform - she praised Dan Quayle's remarks on 
> the subject (though she might have been toeing the Aetna line
> on that).
> 
> |> Zoe should step aside.  If not, Clinton should withdraw
> |> her nomination.  There has to be someone better to pick.
> 
> This is what you get when you are hell-bent on making sex, ethnicity 
> or skin-color the deciding characteristic for a person to occupy a 
> position - you often wind up with someone you'd rather not have had 
> to choose.

If so, was the selections of John Tower or Bert Lance examples of 
what you get when you are hell-bent to select a white male?

I'd say that it is more a case of trying to get a qualified person
confirmed dispite the (ethical) warts.  They underestinated the
size of the warts, IMHO.

>              George Bush, caught up in the rhetorical smog that said
> that no one BUT a black could fill the shoes of the St. Thurgood,
> wound up with a woefully inexperienced Clarence Thomas (though 
> probably better than any nominee that Clinton will pick).

I've yet to hear anyone claim the Zoe is not qualified due to 
inexperienced.
>                                                            Clinton
> has his Zoe. Serves him right.
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