Nixon to be cloned, Congress backs "Health of the Republic" exception
Newsday reports that yet another Nixxon-ian droid has surfaced in the 1600 Crew Adjunct Retread Department. Fred Fielding, an erstwhile young lawyer about 30 years ago who was John Dean's assistant in the Nixxon White House has apparently been quietly vetting candidates for Judicial nominations for President SockPuppet on behalf of of the evil, liberal ABA.
...While serving on the ABA's nonpartisan Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, veteran Washington lawyer Fred F. Fielding also worked for the Bush-Cheney Transition Team, accepted an appointment from the Bush administration and helped found a group to promote and run ads supporting Bush judicial nominees, including Estrada...
Guess who gets Mr. Fielding's highest recommendation? Ummm, three choices kids; can't guess? Here's a hint, Microsoft used his initials in an OS release, and it's not Xavier Paul...okay you got it, very, very good.
This brings up a point that seems to have surfaced in the comments about this over at Atrios, wasn't there some sort of de-Nixonification when he tearily left office in disgrace in that hot summer of 1974? Well, no.
"De-Nixonification" died/became moot when Gerry Ford pardoned the son-of-a-bitch, an act he is still proud of to this day.
Nixon on trial would have taken down many of the trolls who survived his administration and are running the government today. He (Nixon) knew how to play the system and would have offered up countless smaller fish to avoid (in his mind) prosecution and thus responsibility for what he did.
It's instructive that these trolls have mangaged to survive and thrive in the poisonous politics inside the beltway for all these years, only to reemerge supporting a true Puppet President and they play him like a fiddle. It must make them wince when he gets all "godly" on them, since they know that they are the true road to power.
I think if they looked at Nixon as their Leader, they look at Junior as their Sock-Puppet, they're way too smart and resiliant to not play him for all it's worth, and it's worth a lot, in terms of money and power.
