"We are obviously watching and the press is beginning to document the implosion of a presidency"
Damned liberals. If they didn't report this stuff, everybody would be just fine. I want to know, exactly what IS the problem with being crooked as a hound's hind leg??
Not to worry, I got that. Up here when we reference the dog's hind leg, it's in derisive reference to possible homosexuality [as in, the dog's hind leg is not straight].
Gotta love these regionalisms.
I'm a modest guy, but I really did like my connection with the urinating on image for it's figurative power, such as it was.
Ugly Thought Time : depending upon whether he's tried, convicted, sentenced and to where he's sentenced, TOFTT can have an massively unpleasant and entirely different meaning from it's customary usage on these boards.
Scooter Libby has fallen on the sword like the loyal soldier he is, and was expected to do. i respect him for his sense of loyalty. Indeed, it is that depth of loyalty that is the one thing I admire about Bush. He understands it, and rewards it. Libby was the first, and will probably be the Sacrificial Lamb. The media and the public get their pound of flesh, and the higher ups avoid being tainted. But if the investigation is allowed to proceed to its total depth, I believe others will follow Libby's indictment and subsequent resignation.
Pretty much like any other Repub Admin in the last 100 years or so.
But talk about potentially killing the goose that lays the golden eggs? Like so many of my fellow NYers, these guys have no sense of shame or embarrasment or restraint or any ability to look 1 nanosecond beyond the satifction of their immediate greeds and needs.
And they wonder why they're so reveiled [Libby and company and my fellow NYers].
100 years ago takes us back to TR, who was one of the 1st trust-busters. Wilson, an idealistic Democrat, was also a committed racist. Hoover was incredibly capable, as well as incredibly misguided - FDR and JFK were certainly capable of political chicanery. Eisenhower was probably one of the straightest presidents we've had, and LBJ was an old time suthin ward heeler, even if he did what he could to protect people.
The usual problem is when the politician involved doesn't fight the inherent crookedness, instead sleeping with the devil. You could argue that Dubya and Reagan were too obtuse to recognize the problem, but I'm not sure how that would change anything.
Libby is lucky. 100 years ago he would have been charged with treason and hung if found guilty. I agree with President Bush and Vice President Cheney, Libby should be presumed innocent until a court of law finds him guilty, but if that happens, he should not be spared if he is found to have performed an act of treason against his country.
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