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Connections and patronage

Justin Webb | 03:03 UK time, Wednesday, 10 December 2008


This is and not just for Republicans. One of the great weaknesses of the American system of government is the role of family connections and patronage: Clintons and Bushs and Doles hanging around Washington and governors having the right to appoint politicians. How can anyone seriously think that in this hugely democratic nation it is somehow OK for a governor to have the right to appoint a senator under any circumstances? That's the real scandal, that and the governor's haircut...

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