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Ginsburg is another matter. He seems to have been Meese’s choice, and if he was unqualified by all means score the point against Meese. But it isn’t clear to me that Ginsburg was in fact unqualified; he withdrew amid a flurry of hypocritical pouts about his having smoked marijuana on a few occasions years ago. If it didn’t occur to Ed Meese to ask Ginsburg if that particular skeleton was in his closet, all I can say is that it wouldn't have occurred to me either. The truth is — and Kilpatrick knows this — that the liberals have had their ax out for Ed Meese since the day he hit Washington, for the good and sufficient reason that he is a dedicated and immensely effective battler for conservative causes. Even back when he was still counselor to the president, they tried to stitch to gether a mishmash of allegations im plying that he had obtained federal jobs for various California friends in return for financial favors. They in sisted on, and got, a special prosecu tor — Jacob A. Stein — to investigate their grubby accusations. To their dis may, and Stein’s great credit, he con cluded that they were groundless. Since Meese moved to Justice, his liberal foes have labored tirelessly to have him indicted for something else anything else. They have managed to force him to testify repeatedly be fore grand juries investigating the Wedtech scandal and the Iran/contra affair, but have failed utterly to make any cognizable case against him. Re cently they have been reduced to ar guing that their harassment of him, futile though it has been, has kept him too preoccupied to do his job as attor ney general, and has smeared his rep utation to a point where, if he had any decency, he would resign even though nothing has been proved. And into this donnybrook barges Jack Kilpatrick, yelling for Meese’s scalp! It makes you understand how Caesar must have felt when, among the assassins crowding around him, he saw his old friend Brutus. “You too, Brutus? Even you!” Leave Ed Meese alone. Better yet, rally around him and give this dough ty conservative and splendid public servant the support he deserves. If the bell ever tolls for him, it will be toll ing for all of us.
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Key West Citizen
Key West, Florida, US
Mon, Nov 30, 1987
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