kerry@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Kerry Fahey) (03/03/84)
* A LESSON IN POLITICS This week we will once again be given the opportunity to watch one of those great recurring spectacles of American government which afford a priceless insight into the ways in which our despicable legislators mismanage the public trust. President whats-his-name (Goldwater? John Wayne? I forget) has nominated his chief partner in crime, Edwin "There's-a-chicken-in-every- pot" Meese to be the new head of the S.S. The Senate has now begun its confirmation hearings wherein it will successfully demonstrate for one and all and beyond any shadow of a doubt that this cretin is not fit to walk in human society: Senator Flatus: Do you mean t' tell me, Mistah Meese, that you defalcated over 2 million dollahs from th' American taxpayers last month and not one penny of it evah reached this heah co-mmittee? Meese: No, sir, that was the month before. Last month's figures are not yet available. After all of which, by a vote of 89 to 2, the Senate will approve this pillar of turpitude as the highest law enforcement officer in the land. It is an object lesson in American politics that is repeated several times in every administration and nobody ever bats an eye. When this travesty is brought to the attention of one of your more astute political scholars he is quick to invoke the names of Haynesworth and Carswell, two miscreants proposed by Adolph Nixon to preside over the dismantling of the constitution who were reprobated by a Congress confident that Burger and Renquist could make a better job of it. Haynesworth and Carswell. Remember those names -- 200 years from now the intellectual fascists will still be using them as justification for the tragic conceit that "the system works".