Correspondence: The Bush problem

I received a message from Michael Collins, author of the terrific piece "Did Bush commit election fraud?" -- published below. (Scroll down.)

Bush committed election fraud with Iglesias and the interference with the election process by proxy, i.e., through the selection of US Attorneys, and he looks up to his neck with the master plan and the Milwaukee test market. What a disgrace that is.

"Equal coverage" is one of the main culprits here. The Milwaukee Journal was like the Republican press organ, not due to any desire to be so, rather due to the nonsense that "they're two sides to every stor." Does this mean they'll start covering stories about the moon landing being filmed in Houston ?

This is enough to impeach him. Of course, Iraq is too but 80% of Congress endorsed that nightmare. There's lots of plausible deny-ability on election fraud. Book him and charge him.

Another corespondent reminds us of these words, written by Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist No. 76, "The Appointing Power of the Executive," Tuesday, April 1, 1788:

"[The President] would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure."

My sources tell me that when Alberto Gonzales read this text, he noted the date of publication and cackled: "April fool!"