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The Time to Say "No" to Ted Olson is Now | 20 comments (20 topical)

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he didn't get those clients (none / 0) (#5)
by scribe on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 10:23:51 AM EST
by sitting in his office and taking whatever walked in the door.  

No.  You're absolutely wrong here.

He was an active part in building the Rethuglican infrastructure that coughed up the hairballs currently sitting in those high offices.  He helped cultivate the careers of the same people who now would appoint him to protect them from the laws.

He and his clients are two sides of the same coin.

Noscitur a sociis applies spectacularly well here.

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Sounds like you are arguing (none / 0) (#6)
by Molly Bloom on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 11:03:30 AM EST
that he is the lawyer defending the mafia don who has stepped beyond mere representation and has joined the criminal enterprise.

"Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right"
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More than that (5.00 / 1) (#7)
by scribe on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 11:09:55 AM EST
he's one of the people most responsible for the don being the don.

The blood's on his hands.

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The Time to Say "No" to Ted Olson is Now | 20 comments (20 topical)

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