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Eric Holder: Obama’s Harry Daugherty
Harding’s Attorney General disgraced for politicizing Justice Department.
Justice is supposed to be blind.
It isn’t supposed to be rocket science.
Eric Holder, he of the prestigious Stuyvesant School for the intellectually gifted, Columbia University (where he was co-captain of his basketball team), and Columbia Law School — is neither blind nor a rocket scientist.
Neither was Harry Daugherty, he the onetime legal whiz-kid who graduated from the University of Michigan law school at the precocious age of twenty — and then had to wait until he was old enough to take the bar exam in his native Ohio. Daugherty, who like Holder mixed his legal career with politics, wound up managing the successful presidential campaign of his friend Warren Harding. Who promptly — against considerable advice — appointed his friend and political ally to head the Justice Department.
Daugherty promptly turned the Justice Department into a political playground — and wound up resigning in disgrace.
As was true of President Harding’s Harry Daugherty, President Obama’s Eric Holder is a smart lawyer. And also as with Daugherty, no smart lawyer devoted to the law and impartial justice would come within a country mile of the type of repeated politicization both men favored and favor. Repeatedly bad decisions that have emerged from the Department of Justice during the two men’s respective tenures almost ninety years apart as the nation’s top lawyer could never come from the smart lawyers each was and is reputed to be.
Unless.
Unless, of course, the man now serving as Attorney General of the United States has made a coldly deliberate decision — as did Daugherty — to politicize the law. To intentionally, purposefully and with malice aforethought so abuse the Department of Justice for political purposes that it becomes a cesspool of the politics of injustice, with raw political sewage spilling out of the cavernous office of the attorney general and slowly seeping into every nook and cranny of a system specifically designed as a bulwark against tyranny, racism, thuggery, and political corruption itself.
Today, Attorney General Holder is attracting so many Daugherty-like allegations of bad judgment or political corruption in his running of the Justice Department that as with Daugherty’s critics, the demand is increasing for an investigation into the conduct of the Attorney General himself. And his resignation.
For Holder this list includes:
• The Black Panthers: the refusal to prosecute serious allegations of voter intimidation against the Black Panthers.
• Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: the decision to charge the Christmas Day “Underwear Bomber” in Detroit as a common criminal instead of as an enemy combatant.
• Detainee Photos: the decision to advise the President to release detainee abuse photographs, advise the President rejected.
• Investigating the CIA: the decision to seek a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA for decisions already checked into — and cleared — by a previous investigator for the Bush administration.
• Trial of KSM: deciding to locate the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City. Now reports in the Daily Caller indicate the trial will be postponed — deliberately — until after the November mid-term elections.
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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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bornorange| 6.22.10 @ 6:57AM
This article hits only the small "oversights."
How about the constitutionality of TARP, Bailouts, GM, Chrysler takeovers, Screwing GM's bond-holders etc???
Isn't the Justice Department... Just?
Alan Brooks| 6.22.10 @ 5:49PM
Notice Nixon, Ford, Harding, get stomped on because they were GOP, while the Democratic monstrosity LBJ is praised to this day?
Do you know what a hideous mess Johnson made of Vietnam?
Alan Brooks| 6.22.10 @ 5:54PM
... oh, and if someone wants to praise LBJ's energy, dedication, and certain policies of his administration, then I'll upgrade my opinion of him from monstrous to very pernicious.
His Great Society was a STUNNING achievement.
AMENBRO| 6.23.10 @ 6:25AM
Alan YOU IGNORANT SLUT
Stunning achievement in its enslavement of 4 generations of people into waitin for the mailman. Ever been in a home that circles around their check coming in the historical family hearth that GREAT GRANDPA bought & paid?
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STUNNNING in its absolute demolition of the US educational system et. al. into SOCIAL ARMAGEDDON AL
That same hearth, as in HOME ALAN, most often is complete with 2 generations of abandoned ILLEGITIMATE children whos presense on earth was created to assure MA & sometime, (namely the 3oth of the month) PA monthly PROCESS, nailjob and or drug habit.
WAKE up you libidinous incestor of the DOPE that is LIBERALISM.,
If you are so socially cognizant. so egalitarian possessive where have you been while 4 generations of inner city citizen still WALLOW IN SQUALOR?? Do you not see the moral relativistic debris this insidious misdirected specious compassion has wrought upon PEOPLE WITH THE MOST TO LOOSE FROM IT??? Or are you a glaucoma victim in addition to being plum et up with the DUMB-ASS.
Melvin| 6.22.10 @ 7:15AM
People, people, people Mr. Eric Holder is much, much too busy going after Tea Party Activists than actually doing his job.
But we must keep in mind that Holder just like Obama is out of their pay-grade and haven't a clue outside the usual pardoning members of the New Black Panthers and community organizing.
And the even sadder part is, that if the Republicans retake the majority, they too will have no gonads to investigate this Administration for corruption. Especially when Obama has willing allies/apologists in the Republican Party Leadership of Rep. Jeff Miller, House Minority Leader John Boehner and Minority Whip Eric Cantor, and Mike Pence proved this point.
I know some will say, that the Republican leadership is just playing politics and brinkmanship.
I don't know about the rest of you, I'm sick and damn tired of these games and the only way to improvement is repaving the road to D.C. with the political carcasses of the corrupt and the apologists.
Mikey| 6.23.10 @ 11:48AM
I agree 100% with Melvin. Even if the Republicans DO TAKE back control of the House and Senate, sadly no investigation will take place into the illegal acts Obama has perpetrated on the American people. That is the reason that we need to FULLY support good Senators like Jim DeMint, Mike Pence, and other GREAT CONSERVATIVES.
We need to get our country back. The game clock is ticking. . . . who will step up?
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.22.10 @ 7:39AM
When the American public views Eric Holder through the MSM filters, they perceive an easy going guy.
The truth is he's a political animal, not even eclipsed in his political hypocrisy by Barack Obama.
During his nomination hearings he "forgot" relevant material, including the fact that he had represented terrorists.
Eric Holder also stated he would not seek to change long standing policies from the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department. The OLC is the elite of the elite.
One of their policies dating back to the Kennedy administration concerned voting rights in D.C. The policy was that a statute could not change those rights.
Since Holder and Obama disagreed with that they immediately sought to change the police through legal subterfuge.
Highlight the treatment the Bush administration received for allegedly pursuing a conservative agenda which was met with much noise and hand wringing from the MSM while the leftist pursuits of Holder and Obama meet with stonewalled silence from the MSM.
Amazingly, the MSM is failing to do their job to notify the American public that between 7 to 9 Holder nominees are terrorist lovers, having represented terrorists in the past.
When Liz Cheney and Bill Kristrol ran a Web ad detailing the facts that Al Qaida lovers were working in the highest ranks of the Justice Department.
Ironically, the ad was observed by hundreds of thousands of citizens, many of whom called the Justice Department in a panic. For the ad, Liz Cheney was roundly criticized, including by Bill O'Reilly.
What's so alarming is that she is correct. The Justice Department has never been more politicized and never in this manner.
Eric Holder and his hands off treatment and delays of terrorists trails hoping they get off on the technicality they didn't receive a speedy trial is treasonous behavior.
And it's all applauded by the MSM and the progressives. A terrorist is a terrible thing to waste.
Mimi| 6.22.10 @ 8:03AM
Is there any way we could find a " COOLIDGE " around ? These BOYS..with so much power, need to go!
Brian Mc| 6.22.10 @ 7:59AM
I can hear the MSM now. "What a bunch of alarmists, screaming 'fire' at the first rumour of a hint of smoke."
An "uphill battle" is a poor analogy at this point. A better one would be an attempt to rip free of a choke hold...in a dark alley...with a gun at our ribs...while someone is lifting our wallet...and hauling our children off to internment.
Anthony| 6.22.10 @ 9:55AM
Mr. Lord, what proof is there that Holder is a "smart lawyer"? I've yet to meet a lawyer who has opined on something he or she has not read(the Arizona law) and then go on national TV to confirm the point.
Perhaps it's the way Washington D.C. lawyers practice law. Reading is so outre.
Perhaps the key to Holder's "smartness" come from his Columbia pedigree. Let's see, Obama sailed through Columbia as well, via a drug induced short term stint at Occidential College.
Perhaps it was the Columbia basketball program that made Holder appear so smart to the likes of Obama. Or maybe Holder & Obama liked a little one on one, ya know, driving to the hoop kinda thing.
Yep, these two Ivy guys sure are smart. America's enemies thank Allah each day for them!!!
Jeffry Pages| 6.22.10 @ 10:43AM
We as a nation, are so blessed to have a brilliant President and a brillian Attorney General! Eric Holder is probably the most talented AG this country has ever had! Of course President Obama selected him as Holder is simply the most qualified and most talented man available.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.22.10 @ 11:08AM
Jeffry,
How much did you get paid to write that post?
Please,
tell me that you got paid a LOT.
Otherwise, I must assume that you are either "stuck on stupid"...or an unrepentant communist.
...heh, which when I think about it amounts to the same thing.
Len| 6.22.10 @ 12:14PM
Way to recognize sarcasm.
Kipling| 6.23.10 @ 5:32PM
Obama and Holder, brilliant?
About a week ago, President Obama gave yet another speech, this time about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Three weeks before the spill, Obama announced that he’d consider permitting deepwater drilling, which he’d been assured was “absolutely safe.” What did he mean by using these words to describe deepwater drilling? There are two basic possibilities. One is that he knew that deepwater drilling wasn’t absolutely safe, as the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20, 2010 subsequently demonstrated, and that he now wants to insulate himself from criticism from those who have been saying that he was willing to consider risky drilling. If this is the case, then he is dishonest enough to say that he’d been told deepwater drilling was absolutely safe, even though he didn’t believe it, and stupid enough to think he could say such an astounding thing in a primetime speech from the Oval Office without anyone noticing. The other possibility is that he really did believe deepwater drilling was absolutely safe, in which case he is shockingly stupid, since even an intelligent child wouldn’t think that drilling for oil a mile below the surface of the sea is “absolutely safe.”
Obama’s academic transcripts from college and law school have never been released. If they showed that he was a straight-A student, they probably would have been. I don’t know whether he’s a fairly smart guy or someone of average intelligence who has a knack for sounding like a fairly smart guy, but I see no reason to believe that he’s brilliant.
As for Holder, it’s harder to tell just how smart he is. His public pronouncements, at least the ones I’ve heard, certainly don’t make me think he’s brilliant. What I know of Holder makes me think he’s willing to say and do highly questionable things for partisan political or ideological reasons, which raises questions about his judgment, if not his intelligence. Two examples spring to mind.
Holder was a deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration. He didn’t work in the pardons office at DoJ and wasn’t routinely involved in pardons. Holder evaluated a pardon requested on behalf of Marc Rich, a wealthy securities trader who was indicted in 1983 on multiple counts of tax evasion. Rich, who fled to Switzerland to avoid prosecution, was suspected of being an international arms dealer. Rich got Jack Quinn, a lawyer who once served as Clinton’s White House counsel, to seek the pardon. Rather than approach the pardons office, Quinn went to the White House and Holder. Rich's ex-wife, Denise Rich, was involved in the request for a pardon. She had given campaign money to the Clintons, contributed at least $400,000 to the Clinton Library, and bought thousands of dollars worth of furniture for the Clintons. Holder, when asked what he thought about Rich’s pardon request, told Clinton, “Neutral, leaning toward favorable.” Holder did not tell the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, since that office, which had wanted to prosecute Rich, would have opposed a pardon most vigorously. Marc Rich was pardoned by Bill Clinton in January 2001, just before Clinton left office. Holder provided the political cover. And Holder was appointed attorney general by Obama in January 2009 and confirmed by the Democratic majority in the Senate.
On May 13, 2010, Holder testified before the House Judiciary Committee and, while being questioned by Texas Republican Lamar Smith, performed verbal acrobatics to avoid saying the words, “radical Islam.” Holder explained that he didn’t want to offend any religion, but eventually he grudgingly admitted that those who espoused a misguided, radical version of Islam may have influenced the actions of Shahzad, the would-be bomber of Times Square, and others. Or words to that effect. Now, if Holder were just being polite to Moslems, then I might understand, but I don’t think that that was what Holder was doing. It sounded as though he was trying not to offend somebody’s sensibilities. Whose? Surely not people like Anwar al-Awlaki, who not only believe in killing the infidels wherever they are found but who are willing to act on their belief. They aren’t going to change their minds about America just because Holder and other American liberals refrain from saying “radical Islam.” They hate America very deeply, and they are sophisticated enough to focus on the actions of the American military and government (in conducting drone attacks along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, for example), rather than the words spoken by American officials. Some may think Holder was trying not to offend Moslems in general, but even if he’s just moderately intelligent Holder probably knows that many Moslems, even those who are not willing to commit terrorist acts, have been taught from childhood that America is evil and aren’t going to change their minds even if every official in the Obama administration says nice things about Moslems. No, Holder was speaking to liberals like himself and Obama, to those who think “engagement” and “dialogue” and knee-jerk political correctness are just as good as having an actual foreign policy. One of the hallmarks of liberalism is to treat the person who is willing to make a public declaration of his devotion to a liberal cause as a good person morally, regardless what kind of wicked actions that person is willing to commit when out of the limelight. One might dismiss Holder’s words as mere political posturing, except that a remarkably similar attitude was what allowed Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army psychiatrist whose M.D. was paid for by American taxpayers and who murdered 13 American soldiers and wounded dozens more, to get away with his crimes, under the influence of that exemplary imam, that wonderful spokesman for the Religion of Peace, Anwar al-Awlaki. It has been reported that Maj. Hasan got up at psychiatric grand rounds at Walter Reed and delivered extended remarks praising Islam and denouncing the U.S. Such behavior understandably alarmed his colleagues, but their fear of criticizing a Moslem was so strong that Hasan’s radical sympathies were not reported and investigated with sufficient vigor to prevent multiple deaths at Ft. Hood. I don’t think that Holder should have condemned all Moslems as jihadis, but his obstinate refusal to call a spade a spade is regrettable, in my opinion.
No, I wouldn’t say that Obama and Holder are brilliant or that we’re blessed to have them. Obama displays a remarkable singleness of purpose. His purpose is to use governmental power to bring about redistributive change, which means picking winners and losers, and I doubt that the change he wants will be good for me or the country. Holder may be the smartest fellow since Carl Friedrich Gauss, but I see little evidence of it. What I see is a man who is willing to practice sleazy party politics in private and spout dangerous liberal shibboleths in public. “[P]robably the most talented AG this country has ever had”? “[S]imply the most qualified and most talented man available”? Please.
S.L. Toddard| 6.22.10 @ 10:48AM
Mr Lord, continuing from our last discussion, you wrote that "the United States government, no longer United and having lost 11 states was in danger of perishing from the earth". If the United States consisted only of 22 states after the WBTS then what? When the colonies seceded from Great Britain, did Great Britain cease to exist - did it "perish from the Earth"? The government of the United States existed while the CSA were at war with the Union, and would have existed even had the Union made peace with the Confederacy. How could it both have existed and have perished?
Also, with regards to the Confederacy, you argued that the CSA were not entitled to independence because they established "a government based on slavery, where the government did not have the consent of the governed". If having "a government based on slavery, where the government did not have the consent of the governed" is a disqualifier for independence, then the US was not entitled to independence either. Is that not the case? Or are conceding this point and moving on to another (that the southern states didn't have their rights violated etc)?
Dai Alanye | 6.22.10 @ 11:16AM
The Constitution became the law of the land after nine states ratified it in 1788, and was solidified upon addition of the Bill of Rights in 1791.
The idea that states could rightfully, three-quarters of a century later, go back on the pledged word of their ancestors and predecessors is completely absurd.
Lincoln was correct: the Union was and is unbreakable, and we're all better off because of it.
Mel Torme| 6.22.10 @ 11:23AM
Mr. Alanye, where did any of the signers of the Constitution pledge to stay in the union forever? Tell me in which section/paragraph it is written. Any contract that is violated by one party can be considered null and void by the other party. I think that applies now more than it did back in 1860, BTW.
Len| 6.22.10 @ 12:19PM
Sorry, it's just ridiculous to assert that the living are bound by the decisions of the dead. You also ignore the fact that the US constitution came into being by violating the Articles of Confederation (Articles 7 and 13), and those by leaving the authority of Great Britain. So at minimum by your logic we should still be operating under the A of C.
Christopher Holland| 6.23.10 @ 12:48AM
Do I throw my copy of the Bible in the bin then? Written 2000 years ago, so definitely not binding any more - so yesterday. And go tell the Moslems the Koran is out of date - 1400 years old now. Take a helmet and a flak jacket, you will need it. Good luck on your mission.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.22.10 @ 11:10AM
SL
Thank you for adding another string to your violin.
You are still stuck on stupid...but at least with a different note. Heh.
Mel Torme| 6.22.10 @ 11:18AM
I was just about to write something, when I saw Anthony's post above, but I will continue.
I don't automatically see Mr. Holder as a smart guy, just due to his degrees from prestigious universities, as Mr. Lord seems to. Have you never heard of affirmative action, Mr. Lord? I have seen it in action, and it's not pretty. Mr. Holder may have gotten admitted into slots reserved for people based on skin color (I say "may", but I would put money on it). It is possible that a man or woman with the "right" skin color would get an admission slot, for which a man or woman with the "wrong" skin color would have no chance. For a (heck, let's just pick a sex and color randomly for an example) white guy, the qualifications (say, B average in HS, 600/550 SAT, member of the basketball team) that let Holder in, wouldn't give him a chance in hell. Good ole' AA, suck it up, people, you reap what you sow - now we've got this sow as Attorney General - nice job!
I didn't read any of your previous discussion with Mr. Lord, Mr. Toddard. However, your point doesn't even warrant a discussion. Of course, the South had every right to secede. Mr. Lord has a good grasp of current events, but I don't think he has any clue about the late unpleasantness. I hope he will not be surprised by the coming unpleasantness.
Dixie Pixie| 6.22.10 @ 11:53AM
Mr. Lord, I respectfully disagree.
Personally I think a more accurate appraisal would be to equate Eric Holder to Don Corleone's hit man Luca Brasi. Certainly only the most dimwitted lawyer would go before Congress to explain why he is suing the State of Arizona and then admit he has not read the Arizona Law in question.
The likeness to Luca Brasi goes even further as Eric Holder made his reputation as a loyal Democratic Party hatchet man. The South Floridian Cuban exiles will never forget Deputy Attorney General Holder sending 130 heavily armed gunman to kidnap Elian Gonzalez.
To make the comparison complete consider it was AG Holder who held the legal “gun” to the head of BP when Don Obama made “ an offer they can not be refused”.
In short I think is fair to consider AG Holder to be Luca Brasi's soul-mate in both spirit and actions.
Nate| 6.22.10 @ 6:18PM
You have good taste in movies, Dixie. But your analogy-making skills are a little less than functional. Holder as Luca Brasi? Obama as Don Corleone?
Come on, Dixie. You guys can do better than that.
I guess I should just be grateful you all are no longer informing me that Obama is actually Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, and Mao all rolled into one dark demonic overlord. So .... a little progress here, but still.
Tim*| 6.22.10 @ 7:28PM
Obama is Saul Alinsky's lovechild .
Nate| 6.22.10 @ 9:06PM
You're Beck's.
Dixie Pixie| 6.22.10 @ 8:28PM
Greetings Nate
It seems you are still persistently liberal as always.
Obviously the triumph of a Delusional Hope over Experience.
The purpose of making a political analogy is gain understanding by comparing similarities between past and present political entities. Mr. Lord seems to imply AG Holder is motivated by a intellectual light to politicize the AG office. Possible but not probable.
I am implying there is a hitherto unrecognized criminal element in the Obama administration. Specifically the conduct of the Obama administration during the BP Shakedown resembles the actions of a criminal syndicate such as the Corleone Family. If so then AG Holder falls into a characteristic pattern inhabited by a fictional character Luca Brasi.
Funny that you mentioned Obama as a “Dark Demonic Overlord”.
HHHHHHUUUUUUUMMMMMM
You wouldn't be trying to confess something, would you?
Nate| 6.22.10 @ 8:47PM
Dixie,
I have to say, each time you respond to my posts, you are polite and affable, and I have no fight to pick with you.
I've seen no evidence of a "criminal element" in the Obama administration. The BP oil spill is an unprecedented disaster. After the Exxon spill, Exxon hired an army of lawyers to fight paying what it owed people in Alaska and as of now has still not made good on their debt. The idea here was to make sure that didn't happen again. But call it a "shakedown" if you wish: the truth is, BP could have lawyered up and not gone along with this deal. It would have been another PR disaster for them, but they could have refused. They didn't. They know it's going to cost much, much more than 20 billion anyway, so why not make this deal? (By the way, it's 20 billion over the course of four years -- chump change for BP.)
Now, I do want to cavil with one thing you've written.
Analogies are famous for covering up as much as they reveal. Spend one minute talking about how Obama is like Don Corleone (I'm picture Barack sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office, stroking a cat), and you have to spend 10 minutes talking about all the differences. Sometimes plain speech is simply better.
Obama is a Democrat. He's more liberal than Clinton, but less liberal than most liberals thought he was. You don't support him because you're more conservative. You don't have to believe he's Satan to disagree with him, and all this talk about him being a gangster simply marginalizes YOU and makes what may be legitimate criticisms you have sound reckless and not very serious.
Dixie Pixie| 6.22.10 @ 9:37PM
Greetings Nate
Life is more enjoyable when one engages in civilized discourse.
Besides I have found it is silly to get mad at pixels on a screen.
To fully understand my current thinking on the Obama administration, please look up my post on TAS Online “The Oilers Vs The Stealers” by George Neumayr on 6/17/10.
Obama as a Dark Demonic Overload stroking his cat in the Oval Office.
I thought that was the James Bond character “Ernst Stavro Blofeld”.
A odd image for a liberal to make.
Are you sure you are not trying to make the intellectual leap to the Conservative side.
Run, Leap, Tuck and Roll,
Enjoy Life free of the chains of Liberal Delusions.
Dixie Pixie| 6.22.10 @ 11:29PM
Nate ---you have my apologies for the above misprint.
The line should read “ Dark Demonic Overlord.”
Although given Obama's inability to perform the duties of the Office of the President the line as written is funnier.
Christopher Holland| 6.23.10 @ 12:37AM
Obama drinks blood and cooks babies on a spit. And he throws like a girl. Holder is worse.
Christopher Holland| 6.23.10 @ 12:33AM
This is unfair to Luca Brasi. In the book there is a part where Luca Brasi captures two mobsters from Chicago who were sent to New York to rub out Don Corleone. Luca Brasi chops one into pieces and feeds him into a furnance while the other, bound and gagged, watches. The second mobster is so terrified he chokes on his gag and dies. Luca Brasi killed Chicago thugs, but Holder and Obama encourage them.
Len| 6.22.10 @ 12:16PM
What this is a surprise? The US constitution was abandoned a long time ago, and all law is now based on who has control.
Brian| 6.22.10 @ 4:45PM
@Len: I agree, but when exactly was the constitution abandoned? Many would say after 9/11, but was that really when? Was it not long before...
Brian Atwood
Louis Jenkins| 6.22.10 @ 5:03PM
Holder is a man on a mission. Just what his mission is it ain't too clear, but we can say he's doing the bidding of his boss. Holder exhibits many of the same inane qualities as the Pretender n Chief. He's consistently inconsistent.
aware| 6.22.10 @ 5:37PM
Harding and Coolidge.......quite probably the two greatest presidents we ever had as far as liberty and free markets go. That must be why most know nothing about them. Last ones to actually CUT government, taxes AND spending! The last Republicans to see government smaller when they left than when they came. But that was the "old" Right if I'm not mistaken.
Nate| 6.22.10 @ 9:11PM
If you want to live in a country like the one Harding and Coolidge presided over, there are plenty in the third world. Business reigns supreme, workers are unprotected, and no one has to suffer for a minute the horror of having clean drinking water, a police force, courts, or any of the other dreadful inconveniences with which you've been burdened in the United States.
Christopher Holland| 6.23.10 @ 12:42AM
Sounds like a 'Cuba has a good health care system' thing coming up. Any tyranny is a good idea as long as you can go to a hospital for treatment. Liberal political philosophy in a nutshell.
aware| 6.23.10 @ 5:41AM
Exhibit 1 in support of my contention of ignorance.
dw| 6.22.10 @ 7:41PM
What leftist morons like pages leave out or don't know regarding LBJ's great society is that without Sen. Everett Dirksen and his fellow republicans none of his policies would have been passed due to the racist southern democrats who wanted no part of it.
You are a babbling idiot.
dw| 6.22.10 @ 7:44PM
or brooks your all one in the same
WAKE UP| 6.22.10 @ 11:05PM
Alan Brooks: Notice Nixon, Ford, Harding, get stomped on because they were GOP, while the Democratic monstrosity LBJ is praised to this day?
Do you know what a hideous mess Johnson made of Vietnam?
Actually, Alan, Johnson was a very good domestic President, and hopeless offshore; Nixon was the opposite; the current guy is useless everywhere. The party affiliation is irrelevant; you pays yer money, you takes yer choice. Give me Harry Truman any day.
WAKE UP| 6.22.10 @ 11:07PM
WAKE UP| 6.22.10 @ 11:05PM
For clarity:
Alan Brooks: "Notice Nixon, Ford, Harding, get stomped on because they were GOP, while the Democratic monstrosity LBJ is praised to this day?
Do you know what a hideous mess Johnson made of Vietnam?"
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Actually, Alan, Johnson was a very good domestic President, and hopeless offshore; Nixon was the opposite; the current guy is useless everywhere. The party affiliation is irrelevant; you pays yer money, you takes yer choice. Give me Harry Truman any day.
AMENBRO| 6.23.10 @ 6:42AM
Were BAMMIE BAM the AG does anybody think things would be mcuh different?