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Departing delusions
Washington Times ^ | Friday, October 4, 2002 | R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

Posted on 10/03/2002 10:52:30 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:57:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

So Senator Robert Torricelli bows out in disgrace. As I watched his 30-minute farewell address and testimonial to himself, his wolfish head bent over the microphones, his dark eyes suspiciously darting from one camera to the other, I was reminded of Virginia Woolf's old line: "He's not as nice as he looks." At one point he bawled, "I'm a human being." Alas, it is true. Genetic engineering might have more to recommend it than I had hitherto thought.


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Friday, October 4, 2002

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1 posted on 10/03/2002 10:52:30 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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Of course, unlike the senator and his friends in the Clinton administration, we cooperated fully with the authorities and were completely vindicated. Thus here I am today, a free and happy man, while Mr. Torricelli shuffles off into ignominy.

Sweet!

2 posted on 10/04/2002 3:11:09 AM PDT by The Great Satan
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