John D. Giorgis wrote:
> At 07:14 PM 3/15/02 -0800 Doug wrote:
>
>>>Well, Republicans are somewhat unusual in considering honesty to be an
>>>important quality in a President. Not that Republicans insist upon 100%
>>>honesty, just that they are unusual in considering it to be important.
>>>
>>Is that humor? The party of Nixon honest????
>>
>
> Let's see, when one Party found out that their President had lied, they
> forced him to resign.
ROTFL!!! The Republicans forced Nixon to resign? Because he was
lying? Your to be excused for thinking that the two episodes
(Watergate and Lewinski) are similar in scope since you weren't
around back then, but you should check your history books again.
Nixon wasn't forced to resign because he lied.
>
> Another Party nominated and elected a President who had a reputation for
> being a "slick liar." Said President then committed criminal lies when
> questioned by a Grand Jury under a law he pushed through Congress and then
> signed. This Party then not only did not force said President to resign,
> but demagogued the entire process, arguing very prominently that "lies do
> not matter."
>
> Thus, Republicans are unusual in considering honesty to be important, not
> that they demand 100% honesty mind you, but they are unusual in considering
> it to be important.
>
Yuh. Here's an example of how important honesty was to the Reagan Administration:
From the Conclusion of the Report of the Independent Council for
Iran/Contra
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/
"The underlying facts of Iran/contra are that, regardless of
criminality, President Reagan, the secretary of state, the secretary
of defense, and the director of central intelligence and their
necessary assistants committed themselves, however reluctantly, to
two programs contrary to congressional policy and contrary to
national policy. They skirted the law, some of them broke the law,
and almost all of them tried to cover up the President's willful
activities.
What protection do the people of the United States have against such
a concerted action by such powerful officers? The Constitution
provides for congressional oversight and congressional control of
appropriations, but if false information is given to Congress, these
checks and balances are of lessened value. Further, in the give and
take of the political community, congressional oversight is often
overtaken and subordinated by the need to keep Government
functioning, by the need to anticipate the future, and by the
ever-present requirement of maintaining consensus among the elected
officials who are the Government."
And of course, now we have the W. administration, tight as spandex
with the scandal plagued Enron Corporation (something like 35
staffers are ex-Enron), obfuscating on related matters.
You got blinders on, boy. 8^)
--
Doug
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"Now people stand themselves next to the righteous
And they believe the things they say are true
They speak in terms of what divides us
To justify the violence they do"
Jackson Browne, It Is One
