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Subject: Re: Watts gaffe:  an uncomfortable truth - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Oct  1 02:55:00 1983

Re: watt's gaffe

    HOWL OF INDIGNATION #1 (Assuming nobody gets here before me) ...

*sigh*...Actually, I could hardly care less.  Reagan is not keeping his
cabinet stocked according to some public-relations barometer--though latent
insubordination seems to be grounds for being ousted, if Haig was any clue.

Let Watt keep shooting himself in the foot--the periodic screams of outrage
in the press and other forums of our "open" society will rise and fall, and
be forgotten, while the real damage proceeds unabated.

And if Watt were replaced?  Well then, Congress would suddenly stand abashed
at its suddenly-visible inaction on real issues.  Yes, I say, let's have a
more low-keyed, urbane environmental rapist--what better would you expect
from Reagan?  Or from Congress?

    Just Cynical Tonight, I Guess,
	Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)