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DOOLITTLE DOINGS (Chapter X, Verses 5-24) -- When the going gets tough, the tough get going, or so said Nixon Administration Attorney General John Mitchell as he was being led off to jail for obstruction of justice more than three decades ago. Let me hasten to say that our Congressman John T. Doolittle has not been indicted, arrested or jailed for anything, yet I thought of old John Mitchell the other day when I read in the Bee that JTD has joined the growing list of Republican lawmakers who are either abandoning or going soft on President Bush’s Iraq War. Our John’s taken to calling the war a “quagmire” and suggesting that “we get off the front lines as soon as possible.”
I’m sure that superhawk/chickenhawk JTD’s latest stance is the result
of his new staff’s advice to start distancing himself from the lame
duck Commander-in-chief if he wants to run for a 10th term next year
(provided he hasn’t been indicted, arrested, etc). Democrat Charlie
Brown, who narrowly lost to Doolittle last year and who’s already
campaigning to run for the same office next year, had this to say about
the latest Doolittle news: “Now that he’s facing the prospect of
criminal indictment, Doolittle is grasping at straws. He’s gone from a
position of blind allegiance to a president who ignores the will of the
American people, his top commanders, Congress and the Iraq Study Group,
to one that is grounded in desperation.” John Doolittle desperate? I
doubt it -- he’s one really cool cat! -- but I’d sure like to think he
is!
I’m heartened to know that Supervisor Bruce Kranz is still solidly in
the Doolittle camp and not ducking the congressman like many
Republicans are doing. No distancing for Bruce, who in great part owes
his electoral success to the big campaign bucks Big John ponied up for
him. Bruce accompanied his beleaguered mentor on a tour of the South
Tahoe forest fire area last week and, I presume, is regularly in touch
with him by e-mail, phone, snail-mail or Pony Express. And I’ll never
know why I’m the last to know that Roger Canfield, a first rate
governmental consultant and an even better writer despite his far-right
leanings, is now assisting Bruce with the myriad duties required of the
District 5 supervisor. I have a hunch Roger might have helped Bruce put
out his recent newsletter, which went to thousands of District 5
district households and was paid for with Friends of Bruce Kranz
campaign funds. I was disappointed, though, that it carried only nine
photos of Bruce.
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