Wednesday, January 24, 2018

None STILL Dare...

Some people were not alive, and others weren't paying attention, when Tricky Dicky Nixon was forced out of office in 1974, and seek to find parallels between then and now, where--other than the perfidy, treachery, and dishonesty of the perpetrators--there is very little similarity.
They (the GOPhux) are the majority now. So, their inaction is covering their asses...
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The biggest and most important difference then, circa 1971-74, was that the Democrats held substantial majorities in BOTH Houses of Congress. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93rd_United_States_Congress#Party_summary)
The GOP were the DEEP minority in 73. The Dems either had passed or were on the verge of passing the Bill of Impeachment in the House, but even with 57 seats, they didn't have enough votes in the Senate to convict, without GOP defections.
Scott, Baker, and Goldwater all went to Nixon and told him if he didn't resign, there were enough Senators who were ready to defect, including themselves. So Nixon squeezed out a pardon and departed.
Perhaps another significant difference is that the GOPhux in Congress were not implicated in Nixon's malfeasances; his crimes were committed solely within the Executive branch.
Whereas, now, at MINIMUM, we know that Sen. Yertle McConnell knew of the Russian interference as early as March of '16, and not only did nothing to interrupt or prevent it, but actually threatened Obama to expose and politicize it, in the RightWing Echo Chamber and through them the rest of the lap-dog, stenographic national media, and torpedo the whole election by delegitimizing the intelligence. And that, ladeeze and gennemuns, is treason.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/23/mitch-mcconnell-russia-obama-joe-biden-359531
Joe Biden said Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stopped the Obama administration from speaking out about Russian interference in the 2016 campaign by refusing to sign on to a bipartisan statement of condemnation.
That moment, the former Democratic vice president said, made him think “the die had been cast ... this was all about the political play.”
He expressed regret, in hindsight, given the intelligence he says came in after Election Day. "Had we known what we knew three weeks later, we may have done something more,” Biden, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, said.
Biden was speaking at an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, a block from his old office at the Old Executive Office Building, to discuss his new article in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, “How to Stand Up to the Kremlin.”

The irony of the title of the book Biden was celebrating, notwithstanding,
We should be measuring the motherfukkerz for nooses.

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