Well, *maybe* the last great Republican *politician*, though even of that I would not want to swear. And certainly I have known personally some wonderful Republicans who were not in government.
Well, *maybe* the last great Republican *politician*, though even of that I would not want to swear. And certainly I have known personally some wonderful Republicans who were not in government.
I thought "Well, THAT's gonna come back and bite us in the ass."
I thought that too, though I underestimated how wide that loophole in equal justice and rule of law would be stretched. How instrumental it was in turning the former "Party of Lincoln" into "All Treachery, All the Time" I can't say for sure, but it saliently demonstrated how loopholes in our system could be exploited wholesale, which modern Republicans have turned into an industry.
Ford is credited for pardoning Nixon for the "right reasons", and Ford never seemed like Machiavellian schemer, nor the brightest light on the tree; but it seemed more to me like dereliction of duty. Eric Holder, Obama's AG, infamously said "I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy." And unlike the Savings and Loan scandal, the AG's office did not go after wrongdoers, supposedly from the 'good" of the country, but with the overall problems left changed little in the end, and many of the "so large" institutions were deliberately made much larger.
It seems to me that we have been "smoothing over" a whole lot of unworkable, unsustainable, and treacherous stuff over the last several decades, and it's been biting us big time since. If not stopped now, it threatens to ruin everything.
Well, *maybe* the last great Republican *politician*, though even of that I would not want to swear. And certainly I have known personally some wonderful Republicans who were not in government.
I am old enough to recall some good faith Republicans. The Party appeared to sell it's soul after Nixon was pardoned.
I thought "Well, THAT's gonna come back and bite us in the ass."
I thought that too, though I underestimated how wide that loophole in equal justice and rule of law would be stretched. How instrumental it was in turning the former "Party of Lincoln" into "All Treachery, All the Time" I can't say for sure, but it saliently demonstrated how loopholes in our system could be exploited wholesale, which modern Republicans have turned into an industry.
Ford is credited for pardoning Nixon for the "right reasons", and Ford never seemed like Machiavellian schemer, nor the brightest light on the tree; but it seemed more to me like dereliction of duty. Eric Holder, Obama's AG, infamously said "I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy." And unlike the Savings and Loan scandal, the AG's office did not go after wrongdoers, supposedly from the 'good" of the country, but with the overall problems left changed little in the end, and many of the "so large" institutions were deliberately made much larger.
It seems to me that we have been "smoothing over" a whole lot of unworkable, unsustainable, and treacherous stuff over the last several decades, and it's been biting us big time since. If not stopped now, it threatens to ruin everything.