Is that I read in the Miami Herald that it was Bill Clinton who convinced him to drop out of seeking the Intelligence seat. I can't get the link to work but it's here:
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2007/04/hastings_clinto.html

Somehow the Clintons have a LOT of influence over him. It's stranger than Hollywood any day.

Sorry JeffC, but I'm going to have to express an ignorance in the Alberto Gonzales matter. I've read a great deal about numerous accusations, but I've been totally shell shocked by the Drive By Media's constant reading from the Faxes sent to them everyday from San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid.

I may be suffering from severe burn out. I've got to rest up since the primaries are 6 months away and already I'm completely bored by this insufferable news coverage.

So as to whatever Gonzales did or didn't do, I must plead stupid. I know I read where he fired 9 AAGs. I know Janet Reno fired 93 right before she burned all those people to death in Waco. So I might be a bit naive as to what the big deal is all about.

So, I'll demur to your knowledge of Alberto and make a preliminary counter punch to your argument by raising the race card that Democrats use so often. Yep, you don't like him because his skin reflects light differently than yours does.

Now that I've won that debate, on to more important issues.

Man, it's hard to muster up a lot of enthusiasm with such a long election left to go. It hasn't even really started yet and it seems it's been going on forever.

However, if you can convince people that I am some kind of bigot or racist then your powers of persuasion should lead you to seek elective office.

Janet Reno burned those people? Long time ago and I'm fuzzy. Was that before or after Griffin Bell killed Jim Jones and all those people at Jonestone?

Drive by media? You've been listening to Rush too long. That would be the media which reports the verifiable stuff right?

Speaking of more important issues, did you see my book recommendations blog?

Sorry Jeff, I've missed your last book review, my bad.

I don't read like I used to. I'm currently reading the biography on Bejamin Franklin right now, along with Peggy Noonon's When Character was King, which is a wonderful but not as well written as I expected book. (One day when I retire, I'll write my own novel, and sell dozens of copies, can I put you down for a couple? I'll autograph them for you.)

I find this damn computer takes up too much of my time. Plus my lasik eye surgery sort of screwed up my eyes and reading isn't as easy as it use to be. Never have lasik when your eyes are changing in the late 30's early 40's.

Being first on Google is intriguing. Has me thinking now. How their sypder has determined that my blog should be hit first? I've got to figure out why, so I can change my personal website's metatag and get it listed first without paying for it. Maybe because its a News Google.

So what books have you been reading. Chavez hasn't written anything lately. Michael Moore only makes movies. Hitlary is too busy trying to turn America into her very own communist manifesto, a.k.a. it takes a village. Bob Marley hasn't written one since, well, . . . he died. And your father's last book pissed so many people off, that all of the pages are stuck together. (Maybe they were just trying to put out the fire?) So I wonder what you've been reading.

I'd suggest the Fairtax book. It would finally be nice to be able to tax the wealthy elites in this country who are able to hide all of their assets through loopholes put in place by Democrats. (alright, Republicans too!)

Check out the "Recent Blogs" for book recommendations.

The Fairtax will collapse as soon as everyone finds out that one of the reasons corporations will be able to reduce their costs by the 21% reduction claimed for embedded taxes is that they are going to reduce everybody's pay by that amount. Poof! That's the Fairtax going up in smoke...

Businesses will be able to reduce everyone’s pay by 21%? If you assume that that will be done because everyone will have so much more take home pay due to the pre-bate and the elimination of the income tax and payroll tax, what’s wrong with that? Purchasing power would not be reduced. The big net benefit to everyone would be the elimination of $800b per year spent complying with the idiotic and grossly intrusive IRS regulations. That will benefit everyone.

The real reason that it will fail is that liberal “think tanks” will be able to convince the ignorant, whining masses that someone else will benefit more than they will.

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I am not necessarily opposed to the Fairtax proposal. I was just speaking to the politics of it.

A 21% salary reduction for everyone? Totally unexplainable and garners not a single vote in favor of the plan.

Pre-bate for everyone? That really needs to be thought out. I can see the left saying it’s not enough and it would hurt the poor and the right saying it puts everyone on welfare.

Taxing retiree’s savings at 21%? Wait till the AARP gets hold of that one. There is no explanation that will be satisfactory, no matter how valid.

It might be a good or even great idea. The real chances of it passing though, is zero.

I have to agree with your odds of it passing - maybe slightly better than zero, but not much.

The salary reduction, if any, would not be anywhere near 21%, but trying to convince people, especially retirees, that their purchasing power and standard of living would actually increase, although true, would be an impossible task.

Maximus
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