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Is a Tea Party Dynamic Growing on the Left? | 212 comments (212 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

A touching faith in legalism. Power determines results. Precedent is for the little people.

by rootless2 on Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 at 10:43:15 PM EST
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Power shifts. If the last president who got caught with his hands in the cookie jar had gotten 20 years in the shade, starting the second a new administration moved in, it might have inspired a certain amount of reflection on part of future culprits.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 at 10:53:32 PM EST
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Re: Reality check (none / 0)

As if the Bush administration believed it would ever lose power or that it would have believed that such a precedent meant anything other than it was itself licensed to jail the opposition.

by rootless2 on Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 at 10:58:10 PM EST
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Re: Reality check (none / 0)

If Raygun's crimes had been aggressively prosecuted, half of the Bush administration would have been unavailable for service.

What the other half might have though in that event is, of course, speculation.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 at 11:05:42 PM EST
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Re: Reality check (none / 0)

The reason Reagan's criminal enterprise was not prosecuted was that the Federalist Judiciary protected them. Given that the situation only got worse in the last 20 years, Obama and Holder would have to be dewy eyed innocents to imagine prosecutions against Bush administration figures would do better.

by rootless2 on Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 at 11:08:27 PM EST
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Re: Reality check (none / 0)

So nothing effective can be done. Just sweep the deck while the ship sinks?

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Jan 27th, 2010 at 02:50:45 PM EST
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