Posted on 01/29/2009 5:18:50 AM PST by Loud Mime
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Working inside American politics is coming to resemble Stalinist Russia. In good standing one day, party loyalists or public officials can find themselves the next day taking a random bullet. How low the bar has fallen for summary execution became apparent during the presidential campaign.
n March, Obama foreign policy adviser Samantha Power was quoted by a newspaper in nearby Scotland calling Hillary Clinton a "monster." The Obama campaign immediately threw her out the window. Cowed and numbed, no one in politics raised an objecting peep at the absurd disproportion.
Next, Mrs. Clinton's chief strategist Mark Penn was put on a train to the gulag. Remember why? Time's up. For going to a meeting at the Colombia Embassy in his role as head of Burson-Marsteller. Under Washington rules, this was sufficient to decapitate the Clinton campaign.
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What will happen to his competitors? He's started with Rush Limbaugh.
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Blago’s mistake was not being chosen for something in the Chosen One’s administration. Then crimes wouldnt matter.
Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $29,500 of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President.
But that happened in the days before the US had collectively become scum.
What happened to the “rule of law” when every man was equal under the eyes of the law. Now we have some “exceptional” folk who are more equal than others. He evaded taxes. So we put him in charge of the IRS. He starts out corrupted and we expect him to manage national financial policy. What kind of message does this send?
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