DOJ Gives ACORN An Early Holiday Present

Not that I don’t love Bigdawg, but this argument is somewhat embarrassing and reminded me of the it depends how you define sexual relations. These people have no shame. We must oust them! I am still shocked and appalled that we were able to impeach Bigdawg for “a lie” and we do not seem to think there is anything that equals “a lie” or “shady deals” or anything like that with Pretendident Odrama. Oh, that’s right. That is because it is always someone else’s fault.

I’m sick now–I have to go to vomit.

It seems that a good way to save money now for our government would be just to get rid of the DOJ since it doesn’t really work anyway.

Lost one in the spam filter, already. Impossible to post here. Thought this site was addressing the problem?

This justice department elevates politics over the rule of law. Most laws are to a degree ambiguous, and even when they are not ambiguities arise in their application and/or implementation. The key ingredient in the interpretation process is practical wisdom. Time and again Holder and the people who work for him lack practical wisdom. And, as stated above, they always seem to bend to law to political necessity real or perceived. In the process, they violate their oath. Gonzales was bad. Holder is worse. And his influence permeates the organization. This is not a good thing.

Also, if memory serves, Holder is the one who pressed for the pardon of Frank Rich–after all the damage he Soros and others did in Eastern Europe, Also, he represented United Fruit as I recall in matters the execution of a pro union movement in a south or central american republic. These episodes cast further doubts on his judgment–at least in my mind.

HelenK mentioned this upthread, but I’m waiting for the call for a national tax revolt. This would be the Mother of civil disobedience acts if a large part of the populace refused [either through necessity or design] to give the Federal government a unified rasberry on April 15th.

Amy’s article on the DOJ’s response to ACORN funding is just one more chink to the crumbling wall of confidence in business as usual. Whether it be this or the nosediving economy, the healthcare deform bill, the war in Afghanistan, the Fed’s currency games, the tax and cap sham, etc, etc, etc., people are fedup.

Should be an interesting Spring!

So let ACORN take us to court – We can just do a Sarah Palen:

For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house.
Part of a comment posted by Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman

1776
Wasn’t that the year some people went to war over taxation without representation?
Didn’t they win?

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

OK, this may get me banned for the sin of “defending Bush 43,” this regardless of my longtime Independent political status (of which you’re all aware) and the approval my previous posts have received here. I also know that it’s too bloody long.

But here goes, anyway.

(Background music, For What It’s Worth, by Buffalo Springfield, ref. lines, “Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep …” If you haven’t listened to it lately, do so–the points it makes are just as relevant today as they were in the 60s.)

The belief that George W. Bush (regardless of what any of us think of him, or of his policies, or of his failures or successes, or of the legitimacy of Supreme Court’s decision in the 2000 election) ever had any intention of usurping the orderly political process of executive succession in order to stay in office beyond the end of his second term is the product of a specific, long-term campaign of corporate media-disseminated disinformation and corporate media-induced paranoia. The same applies to VP Dick Cheney, whatever else he may have done or not done while in office. It also applies to the other member of the Republican establishment under Pres43. Even the most cynical members of the Republican Party (including those who aren’t too big on the ideals of the Constitution and might consider violating it so blatantly if they thought they could get away with it) are not that bloody stupid. They also still, to this day, adhere to the “gentleman’s agreement” that used to exist between the parties before the present group of radicals hijacked the once-great Democratic party and reneged on that agreement.

This extra-Constitutional, unwritten agreement, in general, is used to ensure that the transition of power, despite any bitterness on the part of the losers, takes place smoothly. The parties have traditionally adhered to this agreement in part to guarantee the integrity of the process, but also, in large part, to maintain their dominance within and stranglehold upon the two-party political system. It’s a part cynical, part noble, and typically American political compromise–it generally works, or it used to work.

Obvious evidence of how this agreement works is the close personal friendship and working relationship that former Presidents George H. W. Bush and William J. Clinton have formed. When the two of them visited Galveston after the hurricane hit last year, Pres42 suggested, and Pres41 readily agreed, that, once he’d finished his term in office, they would do their best to co-opt Pres43 into their Bush-Clinton humanitarian initiative. I don’t think either of them were lying, and I don’t think either of them would have suggested this if they thought that Pres43 would have ever violated his oath and the Constitution to seize power or extend his term unlawfully.

Yes, I have my suspicions and my concerns about the present administration’s intentions, these based on what happened in the Democratic primaries, the obvious reneging by the “new” Democratic party on the “gentleman’s agreement,” election support from shady groups like ACORN and the SEIU, and the destructive nature of just about all of its actions and proposed programs. Still, until we see what happens in the 2010 and the 2012 elections … well, I’ll withhold my judgement as to whether or not the members of the present administration might indeed be that bloody stupid.

The primary tactic that this administration’s backers used to put it into office was the sowing of disregard, divisiveness, hatred, and outright paranoia among not only their political enemies but among their supposed political friends–and it started at least ten years ago. Most of you here first recognized the existence/use of this tactic when it was shamefully turned against Sen. Clinton and even Pres42 during the primaries; some of us had become aware of it much earlier, especially as it was used extensively against Pres43. The shock troops, the front men in the paranoia campaign against Pres43 were the same group of corporate media hacks who later attacked Sen. Hillary Clinton, Pres42 Bill Clinton, Sen. John McCain, and Gov. Sara Palin in exactly the same fashion, using exactly the same tactics. This is the same group of corporate media hacks who have fallen all over themselves to support every aspect of this administration and its policies, no matter how cynical, corrupt, or destructive.

Tingles up the leg, anyone?

Yeah, I know that I liked Pres43 better than most here, but then, I also liked Pres42 enough to vote for him and to support some aspects his agenda–I’m an Independent, remember?–even while I disagreed with others. I’ve never blindly supported any political figure. My standard answer to any enthusiast is that the politician never lived and never will that I’d trust as far as I can toss a cheesecake under water.

In fact, my biggest gripe with Pres43′s performance in office has a bearing on this subject. It was something that he overlooked in his zeal to effectively prosecute the war (something I heartily approved of) against the enemy. To wit, the fact that his expansions of executive powers would persist beyond the end of his term and the end of the war; the fact that there was never any guarantee that those powers wouldn’t be abused by his successors, that they might be used against someone other than the enemy.

Scary thought, that–especially nowadays.

There’s always a danger when you cede too much citizen power to public servants, even for the best of reasons, and I believe that we’ve certainly allowed that to occur in the past half century. As Heinlein noted through one of his fictional characters (paraphrased from memory here), “In most advanced societies, ‘civil servant’ can be translated as ‘civil master.’” This condition is what we should be most concerned about, and what we should guard against, and, I think, what the present administration and its backers plan to bring about (or bring to an even greater consummation than already exists).

Juvenal said it best: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” (Who watches the watchmen?)

I think it’s up to you and me–all of us–to watch the watchers. It’s up to you and me not to be deceived by disinformation, or to allow ourselves to be divided, or to give in to hatred, or to allow paranoia-mongers to addle our brains with fear.

Paranoia Strikes Deep.