Thursday, September 15, 2005

Dizzy Dean Wants To Get In A High Hard One

WSJ.com - Dean of the Democrats

"The Dean whom Democrats have tapped to represent them at John Roberts's confirmation hearings this week is John W. Dean III, White House Counsel to President Nixon and one of the architects of the Watergate coverup.

This isn't the first time Mr. Dean will be appearing in the Caucus Room of the Senate's Russell office building. In 1973, he sat at the witness table during the Watergate hearings and testified about a "cancer on the Presidency." This was shortly before he spent two years in jail for obstruction of justice.

This paragon of the law is now a columnist for FindLaw.com, where he has been writing articles opposing Mr. Roberts's confirmation. Specifically, he wants the White House to release Mr. Roberts's documents from his time in the Solicitor General's office -- presumably the reason he's turned up on the Democrats' witness list. (He has a conflict on Thursday and will appear if the hearings are extended to Friday, says a spokeswoman for Senator Pat Leahy, the Committee's ranking Democrat.)

In other words, the Democrats are using a man who will go down in history for facilitating a Presidential coverup to make the case for open government. Meanwhile, they ignore six Solicitors General from several administrations, Democrat and Republican, who have said publicly that the Roberts documents are covered by attorney-client privilege and should be kept confidential."

This IS sinking rather low, but keep the faith; after all, didn't Biden tell Roberts he was the "best he'd ever seen before the committee"? Yeah right.

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