Should Carter resign at opening session?

Because the Carter-Baker Commission is funded by some
partisan foundations (Pew, etc.), I believe that the radical right
cabal dreamed this circus up and cajoled Carter to join merely to give it a veneer of credibility. Perhaps he hadn't been informed until very recently by outside-the-Beltway, informed citizens (thanks to DUers and others) who have flooded him with data.

This may be a crazy idea but...I was just musing that President Carter might make an opening statement on Monday - to the effect that the witnesses/panelists as a whole were far too partisan, have their own questionable agendas to promote, and are unrepresentative of those most affected by a flawed elections process...every citizen of this country - and he would not participate in a stacked hearing. It would be dramatic, and it would surely get MSM attention and alert the public that something very wrong happened on 11/2/04. It would take major cojones, and perhaps there's a greater downside risk (what?), but personally I think it'd be the most useful thing he could do.
The public head needs to be turned to this topic in a hurry!

I would expect him to do exactly what you say. We shall see I guess.

... having James Baker III co-chairing a commission on election reform is like having Jeffrey Dahmer hosting a cooking show....

having Mr Dahmer giving child care lessons.

I think that it's better for him to be on the commission and work to do some good than have the commission do nothing at all because it's just Baker.

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