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...safe bet that even if Congress and the media are temporarily distracted by the current document dump and revelations like the Federalist Society rankings, the question of the lost e-mails will be front and center for much longer. Waxman is dogged, and shows no sign of backing off on the issue. More broadly, the U.S. attorney firings has shown that the Congressional Democrats know how to put the White House on the defensive. The lost e-mails allow Democrats to hint darkly of a cover-up even if nothing nefarious was lost, placing the Republicans in the uncomfortable position...
...both prosecutorial and political experience. The latter category is broken down into columns showing time spent at the Justice Department, on the Hill, in political campaigns and government staff. The last column indicates whether or not the U.S. attorney is a member of the conservative legal organization the Federalist Society...
...will be interesting to see just how exercised the Democrats and the media get over that revelation. It confirms the widespread impression in Washington that the Federalist society has become more important as a tool for career advancement among Republican lawyers than as a forum for discussing and strengthening the conservative legal agenda. And it is tangible proof that Gonzales' team was giving weight to political and ideological purity as they assessed which U.S. attorneys they planned to retain or fire...
...first, and bitterest, campaigns against a President's course in wartime was mounted by the Federalist Party. The Federalists, followers of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, had accomplished great things during the 1790s. But they suffered from the taint of élitism and in the election of 1800 lost the White House and Congress to their enemies, the Republicans (ancestors of today's Democrats). Federalism shrank to a regional bloc based in New England...
...ended on a high note. The Federalist Party ended on a low one. It carried a new taint: defeatism and treason. The last Federalist presidential candidate ran in 1816, carrying only three states. Federalism became a political cussword; decades later, a young Abraham Lincoln would joke that his enemies accused...