Posted on 04/07/2015 9:00:12 AM PDT by PROCON
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Something happens to men and women when they gain a proximity to power. Most in public service, one can only assume, begin with noble purpose: to serve, to change and improve the world — whether that be a small town or, literally, the world.
Soon enough, many — not all, but many — want only to stay in that position of power, and will do what it takes, whatever it takes, to stay there. Where once they talked only of their dreams and ambitions, not for themselves, but for those they served, soon enough they spend their days tearing down — their campaign foes, opposing political parties and, in the end, anyone who doesn’t think like them.
Both parties are guilty of it, but Democrats seem to relish the dysfunction. The most liberal among them eventually lose all perspective, begin to believe that the ends justify the means, dismiss criticism as driven by partisanship and end up far, far away from where they began.
These past few weeks have brought some pure examples of this miserable human trait. The perpetrators: the Democratic leader of the Senate; a former secretary of state; and the highest law official in the land, the attorney general.
Sen. Harry Reid, first elected to the House in 1982 (and, by the way, set to leave office a millionaire), took to the Senate floor during the height of the 2012 presidential campaign to allege that Republican Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes in 10 years. He claimed an anonymous source had come to him out of the blue and told him so.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
If our Founding Fathers were alive today, they would already be laying siege to Capitol Hill.
With all due respect to the Founders, they’re not the ones who should be laying seige to Capitol Hill, it’s us.
DemocRATS and Republicans alike will continue to lie for as long as they can get away with it.
The words lying and democrat are interchangable.
Lying is acceptable when it serves the greater good.
The more I follow the news the more I believe that obozo will declare Martial Law in late 2016.
Sorry the Author is wrong.
Liberals don’t lose anything, they never had any shame or morals to begin with.
Yes like Democrat politicians, Republican politicians also lie* and have no shame or morals but the difference between the parties is the “rank and file” Republicans are generally good people while the “rank and file” Democrats are also degenerate filthy habitual liars without shame or morals.
Democrat Politicians are representative of their members, Republican politicians aren’t. Which is why Liberals love Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi while Conservatives hate John Bohner and Turtleman
* and ironically the #1 lie Republican politicians tell is they pretend to be (more) Conservative when they are in fact Liberal.
Doesn’t matter whether it is for the greater good or not. When lying becomes reflexive, one would expect it to become a given, and therefore possible to compensate for, by ASSUMING in most instances the individual is in fact lying, and whatever was the exact opposite, was probably the truth.
But when the lying becomes just nuanced enough to contain a few kernels of truth, the lie is harder to detect, though it is still there. And those few kernels of truth are distorted just enough for at least short-term plausibility. When the lie is finally unraveled, by then it has become “old news” and no longer relevant. Or so it is claimed. Policy decisions based on these lies often dog the affected people for years, if not generations, and raise endless mischief.
These people would lie when the truth would serve them so much better.
when the lying becomes just nuanced enough to contain a few kernels of truth, the lie is harder to detect, though it is still there
So true but you forgot to include treason. I am praying for an open season on Democrats.
These libtard liars are parasites, not on people as such, but on people who are deludable-people who are blind,ignorant, and gullible. They become dependents of the lowest kind: dependents not merely on the consciousness of others, but on their unconsciousness.They become fools,whose source of values is the other fools they succeed in fooling.
ass u me
Otherwise, a very good article naming names and citing examples. The tip of the totalitarian iceberg.
Want to have some fun. Make up a news organization call Harry’s office and ask about the child molestation charges or beastiality complaints and just tell them someone called your office with the tip. It doesn’t matter if it’s true now does it?
Stalinists lie. ALWAYS
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