There Is No Law But Caesar
Sep 29th, 2005 at 9:12 am by Susie
Ethics wars could intensify if Republicans uncork a new nuclear option — counter-charges hurled against leading Dems. Among the candidates under consideration for GOP attacks: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, Democratic Congressional Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), Representative William Jefferson of Louisiana, and Senator Jon Corzine of New Jersey, his party’s current gubernatorial nominee. What’s more, GOP prosecutors, both federal and local, will have even more motivation to try and nail a Dem scalp as Republicans try play to voters’ ingrained belief that when it comes to Congressional pols, “they all do it.” (emphasis added).
Business Week
DeLay’s Woes: The GOP’s Tipping Point?
September 29, 2005I don’t know what’s more frightening — the notion that GOP prosecutors at the federal and state level might follow the RNC’s lead in a coordinated campaign to “nail” the leaders of the (nominal) opposition party, or the fact that Business Week doesn’t seem to find anything objectionable or even unusual about the idea.
Probably the latter — I think most Republican prosecutors have better sense than that. Business Week, on the other hand, apparently assumes the criminal justice system is now playing by Moscow rules.
It’s interesting that, despite the tine of the Business Week article, the comments are all sensible and either moderate or a bit left of center.
Is BW out of touch with its readership?
Ooops, tine = tone.
Fooled the spellchecker.
I have been tinkering around with an idea for a while that with the death of the Soviet Union, by which we defined ourselves not as anything positive but only in terms of being the dialectical OPPOSITE of them, we have BECOME the Soviet Union.
Some of the marks of this: Centralization of power, fixation on military force, merging of the politcal party and the government, state control of business (and business control of state), coupled with complete corruption of the government and its alliance with organized crime.