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Article: What the Wright hand's doing. (House Speaker Jim Wright)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 19, 1989
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WITH A FATALLY WOUNDED Jim Wright now bleeding all over the Democratic Party, Washington is busy searching for the moral. To many Americans, the Speaker's downfall is but a Republican attempt to even up the score for the felling of Bork, Meese, and Tower-i.e., politics as usual. True enough, it's not likely that l'affaire Wright would have exploded had not John Tower been so shabbily treated by a Democratic-controlled Senate. But what's at stake here is much larger than graft and greed, larger than Republican revenge, larger than Jim Wright himself.
To begin with, the differences between Jim Wright and the victims in the Reagan and Bush Administrations are ...