Posted on 06/27/2005 6:02:49 AM PDT by moose2004
Euan Blair Will Work For The House Rules Committee.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Even if he were homosexual, has there ever been any scandal attached to him? Dreier has kept his private life private, just as he should. It's not as if he were Barney Frank, whose lowlife boyfriend was running an escort service out of his apartment. Frankly, I'd trust my son more with Dreier than I would my daughter with Bill Clinton.
"I would not let my son anywhere near Rep. David Dreier. He has long been rumored to be a homosexual and I figure where there is smoke there is likely fire."
You have a point, but do you think Drier would be STUPID enough to try something with young Blair knowing what kind of firestorm would ensue?
Louise Slaughter is not happy about it. Ha! She's a piece of work.
It's good that the kid will see the other side. I've been impressed with Drier every time I see him on the TV. He states our case very well.
I don't think the rumors are coming from anyone with credibility. The only basis that I can see is that he's always been a bachelor.
In this day and age, with paparazzi and investigative journalists and so on, I don't think a guy with Dreier's profile in Washington could keep real evidence of homosexual dalliances from being discovered for very long. I assume, therefore, that there isn't any.
I wonder if he has conservative inclinations, or simply wants to work with the governing party? It makes more sense working with the party in office than with the party whose only function is to delay, obstruct, bitch, and whine.
I think Tony Blair was naturally closer to clinton than to Bush, but he's a realist with a sense of duty. As England's Prime Minister, he must deal with the president, not with the party in exile. Presumably his son understands this dynamic.
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Is he an American citizen? How can we allow non-Americans to work within our government?
Another slippery slope.
Or maybe he just wants to work with some adults so he can actually learn something. The Dims couldn't even show enough maturity to wish the son of our staunchest ally's PM well in his internship - all they could do is whine about how he's working with "partisan" Republicans and dump unsubstantiated rumors about Dreier's sex life on the British press. It doesn't get much more low-class than that. If I were Blair, I'd make sure I stayed as far from them as possible.
He's not a government official. He's just an intern. We have non-citizens serving in our military in Iraq, so I don't see how this is a problem.
I agree, it would have been politically awkward for Euan Blair to be a dem intern while his father works so closely with a Republican President.
"He's not a government official. He's just an intern. We have non-citizens serving in our military in Iraq, so I don't see how this is a problem."
You hit it right on the hammerhead shark.
(I didn't want to use a cliche.) But I think
you're right.
We see no problem NOW.
But everything escalates -- before you know it -- there will be a problem.
Mark my words.
"The parliament is, by corruption, the mere instrument of the will of the administration. The real power and property in the government is in the great aristocratical families of the nation. The nest of office being too small for all of them to cuddle into at once, the contest is eternal, which shall crowd the other out. For this purpose, they are divided into two parties, the Ins and the Outs, so equal in weight that a small matter turns the balance. To keep themselves in, when they are in, every stratagem must be practised, every artifice used which may flatter the pride, the passions or power of the nation. Justice, honor, faith, must yield to the necessity of keeping themselves in place. The question whether a measure is moral, is never asked; but whether it will nourish the avarice of their merchants, or the piratical spirit of their navy, or produce any other effect which may strengthen them in their places. As to engagements, however positive, entered into by the predecessors of the Ins, why, they were their enemies; they did every thing which was wrong; and to reverse every thing they did, must, therefore, be right. This is the true character of the English government in practice, however different its theory; and it presents the singular phenomenon of a nation, the individuals of which are as faithful to their private engagements and duties, as honorable, as worthy, as those of any nation on earth, and whose government is yet the most unprincipled at this day known."-- Thomas Jefferson to Governor John Langdon, March 5, 1810
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