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From: david@rand-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Beat Him or Impeach Him
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Date: Tue, 29-May-84 18:10:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 29 18:10:51 1984
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Nice listing of trivia there, Mike, but I don't see a single `high crime
or misdemeanor' anywhere on it.   The Dems ain't gonna beat him, and there
ain't no cause to impeach him....sorry, Charlie...

By the way, the action in Grenada in no way vilated the War Powers Act; nor
has any of the U.S. activity in Central America; even the `surrender now'
faction in Congress doesn't argue about that.

Further, the `classified information' Casey received was no such thing;
`classified information' is stuff that to some extent is vital to national
security, something the Carter papers unarguably were not...while it may
have been private information, or even `commercially confidential' on some
level (since, after all, we do buy and sell the Presidency), it was not
government information.  Casey's action, while probably unethical, was
quite probably completely legal.

By the way, I dislike Reagan as much as the next chimp, but I really do get
tired of hearinfg how he's responsible for the sun burning out in five billion
years...believe it or not, campers, the man is right about some things
(the woeful state of our defenses, Grenada, the basic nature of the Soviet
Union);  while this in no way should excuse his many errors (the MX, James
Watt, school prayer, etc.), this constant flow of garbage making him out
to be Attila the Hun strikes me as sour-graping from folks who've never
understood that Jimmy Carter got beat in '80 for some very good reasons.

OK, afterburner disengaged...the betting line in California is Hart giving
3 to Walt...me, I'm voting for Truman...

Cheers!

							--- das