Actions have consequences
A few minutes ago I was watching Fox News. Ann Coulter was talking to Neil Cavuto. Granted, I only caught about 20 seconds of it and what I saw was close-captioned. But the gist of it was this: "they," (Bush-haters) tried to get Bush with Cindy Sheehan. That fizzeld so then "they" tried to blame Hurricane Katrina on him. That didn't work so now "they" are trying to smear Bush with Tom DeLay's phony indictment.
They, they, they. Talk about paranoid!
It's similar to the revisionist history of the early 70's: Bush apologists will tell you that Nixon (whom they revere -- remember Cheney and Rumsfeld grew up there) they'll tell you that Nixon was finally hounded out of office by his haters when the haters got the press to cook up the phony Watergate scandal. Never mind that, in reality, it was Nixon's sleazy criminal behavior that finally caught up with him.
Another variant of Bush Apology Syndrome (BAS) posits that bad things just seem to happen to Bush. Poor baby.
For example, today I read this:
It's hard to spin [DeLay's indictment] as anything other than another problem dropped on the pile of troubles our side faces now. Bad news tends to come in bunches, and we've had a bunch lately.This kind of narrative is a classic example of the passive voice -- "mistakes were made."
People make it sound like a stretch of bad weather instead of what it really is: the direct consequence of years of incompetence and corruption by Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice, and all the rest.
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. . . and now Judy Miller is going to testify. Another thing that's just going to "happen" to Shrub?
I feel like Beavis at a cheerleading comvention.
HEh HEh HEHEH!
Posted by: Mark Adams![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.rubyan.com/politics/nav-commenters.gif)
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September 30, 2005 06:06 AM
No, no, no it wasn't that Nixon was innocent. It was that he wasn't sleazier than any politician before him, they were all sleazy but they had it in for him. It was a witchhunt. Poor Richard M. didn't stand a chance against the evil Democrat smear machine!!!!!
I love Ann Coulter, I think every Party should have one. I know you have Michael Moore but she's better looking and smarter.
Posted by: Rosemary, The Queen of All Evil![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.rubyan.com/politics/nav-commenters.gif)
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September 30, 2005 08:37 AM
Johnson was way more corrupt than Nixon. And Kennedy won office though corrupt machine politicians, so I'd have to say he was more corrupt than Nixon also. And both Johnson and Kennedy were corrupt and immoral liars and adulterers in person, although, as far as I know they never ordered any husbands into battle and had the other soldiers withdraw. I find their behavior disgusting.
Eisenhower and Truman were more honest than Nixon. I'm not sure about FDR.
Yours,
Wince
Posted by: Wince and Nod![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.rubyan.com/politics/nav-commenters.gif)
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September 30, 2005 11:20 AM
I've known married men (or men in a committed relationship) who did not commit adultery. And they were all generally honest. I've known married men (or men in a committed relationship) who've had affairs. And some were all generally honest and some were not. I've known married men (or men in a committed relationship) who chased tail like Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton. Some were charming. Some were nice. Some I liked hanging around with. But all were sleazy liars who would betray their friends or business partners as easily as they betrayed their significant other. But it wasn't a statistically significant sample, so what do I know?
Yours,
Wince
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September 30, 2005 11:49 AM
The "personal responsibility" party. Heh.
Posted by: shep![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.rubyan.com/politics/nav-commenters.gif)
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September 30, 2005 12:24 PM
Wince, Ro:
No President systematically trashed the Constitution like Nixon did.
Not. Even. Close.
Posted by: Ara Rubyan![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.rubyan.com/politics/nav-commenters.gif)
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September 30, 2005 01:39 PM
"No President systematically trashed the Constitution like Nixon did."
I forgot. They're also the "rule of law" party. Heh (again).
Posted by: shep![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.rubyan.com/politics/nav-commenters.gif)
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September 30, 2005 03:30 PM
No President systematically trashed the Constitution like Nixon did.
Examples please. I have a copy of the Constitution all ready to compare your allegations.
Oh, btw:
Who was it that put Japanese Americans and others in the internment camps?
Who made the Louisiana Purchase without any authorization?
Who bugged Nixon's campaign airplane?
One hint, 3 presidents all before Nixon's time.
Posted by: Rosemary, The Queen of All Evil![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.rubyan.com/politics/nav-commenters.gif)
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September 30, 2005 06:12 PM
Go read the House Judiciary Committee's recommendation, c. 1974, Peter Rodino, Chairman.
Posted by: Ara Rubyan![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.rubyan.com/politics/nav-commenters.gif)
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September 30, 2005 07:10 PM
You're making me look it up? That's just wrong. (I will but you suck!)
Posted by: Rosemary, The Queen of All Evil![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.rubyan.com/politics/nav-commenters.gif)
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September 30, 2005 07:25 PM
Wah, wah, wah, call the wah-mbulance!
:^)
Here's your link to the Articles of Impeachment:
- Obstruction of Justice
- Abuse of Power
- Contempt of Congress
In summary, "Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States."Read the whole article. You're too young to know what it was like to be in the political opposition during those years. So this article might begin to provide some much-needed context and perspective to your world.
P.S. And whatever you do, don't listen to, or heed, the observations of people like Pat Buchanan, Chuck Colson and G. Gordon Liddy when they talk about those days.
Just don't.
Posted by: Ara Rubyan![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.rubyan.com/politics/nav-commenters.gif)
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September 30, 2005 08:04 PM