Daniel David Rostenkowski was a United States Representative from Chicago, serving from 1959 to 1995. He became one of the most powerful legislators in Washington, especially in matters of taxation, until he went to prison. Wikipedia
Nixon chose loyalty over legality.
You want a friend, get a dog.
Friendship with a crook over the American people.
Granted, the crook was an Illinois politician, and as my grandfather explained to me, being a crook is a pre-requisite for being an Illinois politician, so one can’t fault Rosty too much for getting the standard bona fides for his chosen profession.
But crooks, including Illinois pols, tend not to have good morals, and thus are poor choices in friendship.
Bush chose poorly.
I’m glad that Bush’s wish that no one else see the note has been honoured in the breach.
Read my lips...
Here we have a most intense paradox.
One can be collegial unto blessing — but one should not be collegial unto a fault. There are things to say yes to, and things to say no to, in this art of the possible we call politics with politicians, every single one of which is a sinner.
The American founding idea, in part, was that in numbers would be found the wisdom of many counselors which might elude an oligarchy.
Maybe there should have been a presidential committee rather than a single president provided for in the Constitution as well— under the same philosophy. But we have what we have, and Donald Trump, that madly wealthy commoner of a fellow, comes as close to being a populist president as any we have seen in a long, long time.
Daniel David Rostenkowski was a United States Representative from Chicago, serving from 1959 to 1995. He became one of the most powerful legislators in Washington, especially in matters of taxation, until he went to prison. Wikipedia
Taking a notorious crook as his close friend
raises troubling questions about his judgment.
That’s why he lost.
How’d that work out for ol’ Georgie? Pretty much handed Clinton the presidency, didn’t it? Not that hor-hay has any bad feelings; he still campaigned for Hillary over Trump.
I donated so much to lil shrub, that I had an original, autographed pix of him and his wife {long since burned because of my let down}.
How could I have been so naive?
There is something to be said for doing the job people elected you to do.
Too bad he didn’t see that .
His ‘friends’ ran him out of office and made him a one term president.
His concern about his ‘friends’ gave us Bill and Hillary Clinton...
The Bush’s chose friendships and housekeepers over the good of their supporters
I can imagine it was not friendship. 41 had been head of CIA. Why to we ascribe Boy Scout morality to him. He was chief of spies. And better at that than at being potus
