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Here's An Advance Copy Of Rahm's Full Speech
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 25, 2007 02:06pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, April 25, 2007 08:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Believe me, I’m not naïve. President Clinton made me a top aide in the White House not because of my good looks or charm – and not because I was a top policy expert. No, I got to the White House the same way he did: through politics. I am not one who believes you can ever fully divorce politics from policy in a democracy. It would be like trying to do physics without math.
Yet I’ve also always recognized that there is a balance; that we should never allow the basic functions and solemn responsibilities of government to be subjugated to or take a backseat to politics or party interests.
President Bush came to the White House with an entirely different understanding.
Not since the days of Watergate, when our judicial system and intelligence community were deployed by the White House in the service of partisan politics, have we seen such abuses. And in many ways, what we have seen from this administration is far more extensive than that scandal.
Partisan politics has infiltrated every level of our federal government – from scientific reports on global warming to emergency management services to the prosecutorial power of the federal government itself. Even the Iraq War – from our entry to the reconstruction – has been thoroughly politicized and manipulated. |
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