Global Warming has been particularly active this week, dumping up to ten inches of snow in the Deep South and even dropping snow in areas of Mexico that haven’t had any in a century.
When the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked over and thereby rejected Bill Lann Lee’s nomination to head the Justice Department’s civil-rights division, the Administration cried foul: Lee merely held President Clinton’s views on “affirmative action.” True. That’s the problem. Clinton’s views, as revealed by his record if not his rhetoric, are that all preference programs based on race or sex should be maintained at all costs; that attempts to repeal preferences are unconstitutional; and that Supreme Court rulings to the contrary should be ignored. Yet Republicans from Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) on down have treated Lee as an isolated radical rather than make the case against the Administration’s policies. Indeed, the fact that Clinton thought he could get away with naming Lee the acting head of the division is testimony to the GOP’s feebleness on preferences. Just weeks ago, Republicans provided the marginal votes to kill the Canady-McConnell anti-preference bill. The latest news: Republicans are holding meetings on the “gender gap” with Nancy Reagan aide Sheila Tate and Jim Baker crony Margaret Tutwiler—two women who have spent decades apologizing (and not to conservatives) for being in the GOP. Why should Clinton negotiate with Republicans when they are negotiating with themselves?
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