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...court reserved the right to appoint a "shadow counsel" despite Leong's efforts to decline representation...
When President-elect George W. Bush announced his intention to appoint former Harvard assistant professor Lawrence B. Lindsey as assistant to the president for economic policy, it coincided with the former Texas Governor's public declaration that the country should prepare for a potential economic slump...
...could say 'in your face' and appoint someone as conservative as Chavez; or he could lick his wounds and pick someone more moderate that labor could get a long with. Generally, a president is given more of a break on a second nominee. To get this first debacle off the headlines, Bush will be more advised to pick a moderate. Or make the political masterstroke of picking a Democrat, although I don't think there's much chance of that right...
More likely is that Bush would use subtler means to compromise Clinton's legacy. He could appoint agency chiefs who would hold up environment-protection plans, and omit funds in his budgets for projects drawn up by Clinton, leaving them to die on the vine. Unsympathetic officials could slow down the cleanup of PCBs from the Hudson and the implementation of the Kyoto climate-change treaty by sheer foot dragging...
...whites do not appoint black leaders. If they did, Colin Powell or some other outstanding African American would have the title. Jesse Jackson - a shameless hypemeister, a genius of self-promotion with a talent for survival and a gift for grifting silly old whitey - stays in business because of a complex racial physics dictating that his viability as a black spokesman/agitator stands in direct proportion to the extent he succeeds in infuriating white folks and, from time to time, shaking them down. He infuriates. He reconciles. The check comes forward in its smiling envelope...