The Nixon Pardon

Regarding the Nixon pardon by Gerald Ford, it's difficult to reach any definite conclusion about the validity of the reasoning. right or wrong. And, the question persists: Would Ford have pardoned Nixon if he had known for sure that it would cost him any chance to win an elected term as President?

That there was a quid pro quo, spoken or unspoken, I have no doubt. This is how the game is played. However, I believe that Nixon should have been forced to admit his complicity and responsibility in the crimes of Watergate and other activities before the pardon was granted.

I'm afraid that a precedent may have been set. From now on, any President can "get away with murder" if he is certain that the person who succeeds him in office will grant a pardon, no matter what the circumstances.

This is not good.

 

 

Saddam is gone,------------

---------but bin Laden is still free.

Did we get the wrong guy? Why is this? Was it the oil? If so, where is the oil?

A triumph of idiocy.

Gerald R. Ford, gentleman politician

Gerald R. Ford was no doubt a gentleman and a person of integrity. However, he was a professional politician, and in that world, "Quid pro Quo" is the title of the handbook.

Nixon's vice-president was the corrupt Spiro Agnew. When Agnew was forced to resign because of tax evasion problems, Nixon needed a vice-president that was acceptable to the public and congress, and could be trusted.

When Ford's appointed term was up and he ran for the Presidency against Jimmy Carter, the Nixon pardon may be the cause of Ford losing the election.

At that time, it was very difficult for people, including this writer, to believe that the Nixon pardon wasn't a quid pro quo to gain the vice-presidency for Ford. Nixon had to know that trouble was coming and he needed a successor that was dependable.

Maybe, considering the times, it was the right thing to do. However, it left a very bad taste in the mouths of many, many people, and tarnished Ford's legacy.

 

 

Former President Ford dies

Gerald Ford worked to restore honor and integrity to the office of President of the United States after the morass of the Nixon administration.

Who will we find to restore the office of President after the disaster of Bush?

Hercules accepted the task of cleaning the Augean stables. Do we have a potential "Hercules" who is willing and able to muck out the Oval Office? Can the befoulment be banished and honor restored?

Stay tuned. The answer is far from certain.

A "Christmas Carol" for Bush

Ebenezer Scrooge was haunted by the "Ghosts of Christmas Past".

My Christmas wish is that Bush will be haunted by the ghosts of soldiers passed.

 

 

 

Don't sweat Iraq, go shopping!

When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping

December 21, 2006 8:45 AM

By DOUG THOMPSON

President George W. Bush has an instant remedy for anything that ails this nation or his failed administration.

Go shopping.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/news2/2006/12/lets_go_shoppin.html

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Bush, in his most recent press conference said not to worry so much about the war, but instead, "go shopping".

This sounds to me like, "Nero fiddles while Rome burns"

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Shakespeare wrote in MACBETH:

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

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Nero fiddles, Baghdad burns, the Idiot speaks, our sons and daughters die.

Jeb Bush? No Way!

"I have no future" -- Jeb Bush tells reporters

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-12-21T115653Z_01_N20428647_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-JEB.xml&WTmodLoc=PolNewsHome_C1_%5BFeed%5D-5

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Concerning Jeb Bush, I have this to say:

  We fought the War of the Revolution to escape the tyranny of dynastic kings and their claim that they ruled by divine right.

  We have had Bush  1 and 2, and it's damn well enough. As it is now, Bush 2 thinks he talks to God,and probably believes he has some kind of "divine right" to do as he pleases, even if the destruction of nations is the result. Bush 3 would constitute a dynasty, and who knows where it would proceed from there.

  My great-great -grandfather at the age of 15 years was a member of George Washington's Army of the Revolution. To succumb to the rule of familial dynasty would be a great dishonor to him, and to all his brethren who suffered and died so we could be free.

NO MORE BUSH FAMILY!

Bigger military=more war

Bush Says US Needs to Boost Size of Army, Marines

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Bush

Thinking about this, and the past few years, caused me to make a connection between Austria and Texas.

You figure it out.

Bush, the Bible Student (or not)

Proverbs 16:18

"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."

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Bush better go back to his Bible and study this carefully.

He is destroying Iraq, and for this he will fall from grace and history will crucify him.

 

The idiot son--------------

------------of George H. W. Bush has no clue. If the Congress allows him to continue in office, permanent harm may be done to our country. There is a Constitutional remedy for this problem but the Congress has no courage.

Senator Smith blows off Washington

Smith says Iraq war may be "criminal"

10 mins ago

Smith says Iraq war may be "criminal"

By MATTHEW DALY, The Associated Press
Dec 8, 2006 3:37 PM (1 hr 27 mins ago)
Current rank: # 66 of 11,677 articles

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Gordon Smith, who voted in favor of the Iraq war and has supported it ever since, now says the current U.S. war effort is "absurd" and "may even be criminal."

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Senator Smith, if you're smart enough to see it now, why weren't you smart enough  to see it then? The citizens of Oregon voted you into office because they thought you had the intelligence to see the truth and do the job. Now that you have admitted you were so very wrong, shouldn't you resign?

Stay the course, or change the course?

Various tv talking heads are discussing the possibility of Bush implementing all the recommendations of the Baker-Hamilton Commission.

In my opinion, not likely. I don't think that Bush is either flexible enough. or smart enough to follow this course.

Many, many more body bags will come back from Iraq before we see the end of this awful disaster.

"When will they ever learn?"

David Ignatius on Iraq

Below is a quote by David Ignatius in his op-ed piece in the WASHINGTON POST of December 7th. The link is to the article.

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" This is the real national security threat to America -- this sense in the rest of the world that Iraq symbolizes America's fatal new combination of arrogance and incompetence."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/06/AR2006120601673.html

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Many very concerned citizens of the United States have been saying much the same for some time now. In many parts of the world we are no longer seen as a shining beacon. Now, we are viewed with fear and loathing by much of the world.

How long will it take to turn this around?

Baker-Hamilton Report

The report says: "The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating."

When a physician, speaking of a patient's condition uses the words "grave and deteriorating", it means only only one thing. There is no hope and death is imminent.

Bush and cohorts should ponder this as best their limited intellects will allow.

Their greed and stupidity have led us into the Hell of Dante's Inferno where the words, "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" are engraved over the entrance.

If indeed there is a Hell, these fools deserve to spend eternity there, as they have created Hell on Earth in Iraq.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES

 Baker-Hamilton Report:

Time to bring back the old game, TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES. Bush is the contestant. If he doesn't tell the truth, face the truth, and implement the truth, the consequences should be severe.

No president in history has more deserved impeachment, conviction and removal from office, than has GWB.

Bad Day for Hypocrites

Cheney's Gay Daughter Said Pregnant

The Associated Press
Wednesday, December 6, 2006; 10:55 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/06/AR2006120600221.html

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Now, what will all the rightwing, hypocritical, evangelical Republican haters of  "San Francisco values" have to say about this?

Come on Nancy Pelosi, wipe that smirk off your face!!

Hillary for Pres?

Hillary Drumming Up Support for Possible Presidential Run

Dec 4, 2006 08:18 AM PST

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is drumming up support for her own possible presidential run in 2008.

She met with Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer yesterday in New York City, and she has been contacting other top Democrats, like Senator Charles Schumer, to see who would support her if she decided to run.

Clinton has not made an official decision, but many national polls show her as the front-runner for the 2008 Democratic nomination.

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I'll be surprised if Eliot Spitzer gives Hillary much support. There is a New York State tradition of crusading attorneys-general becoming governor and then running for president. Eliot wouldn't want Hillary in the way.

 

GOOD RIDDANCE

TO BAD RUBBISH

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News 14 Carolina Bush's contentious UN envoy calls it quits Raw Story - 54 minutes ago Washington/New York- John Bolton, US President George W Bush's contentious and outspoken choice as United Nations ambassador, has given up his post, the White House said Monday. http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Bush_s_contentious_UN_envoy_calls_i_12042006.html

So sad

 

but so true