FinanceDude said:Australia still loves us...................from what I hear............
Hopefully Bush will be out of office before we invade Australia and have them hate us also. :
FinanceDude said:Australia still loves us...................from what I hear............
twisted, cynical, sinister, crooked, cruel, sociopathologic, and the like
Maybe that's why I enjoy your posts.
HFWR said:Hey, JG; isn't it against board rules to have two IDs...
astromeria said:I don't feel the least bit sorry for Bush or any members of his administration. Principled people resign when their boss goes off the deep end.
My fellow geezers, remember the Saturday Night Massacre? President Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was appointed by Richardson to investigate the Watergate matters. Richardson refused and resigned in protest. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus to fire Cox. Ruckelshaus also refused but didn't resign, and Nixon fired him. Solicitor General Robert Bork, however, was only too happy to fire Cox. (But Congress remembered when Bork was up for Supreme Court Justice, and he was rejected.) What a national nightmare! At least nobody died.
Of course it was stated. We liberals couldn't stand Bork for his policies but the Watergate piece added a little fuel to the fire.Lazarus said:Well, this is something I didn't know. Republicans portrayed this as an unjustified attack. Why weren’t these facts stated when he was rejected? It’s very hard to find the truth with all the partisan politics.
I was a little to young to follow the Nixon drama.
Indeede. "Politics ain't beanbag."* Things happen for multiple reasons. Democratic members of Congress had learned to despise, distrust, and fear the very partisan Bork (partisanship is a two-way street!).Lazarus said:It’s very hard to find the truth
donheff said:Of course it was stated. We liberals couldn't stand Bork for his policies but the Watergate piece added a little fuel to the fire.
Leonidas said:I was in junior high during Watergate and did not know Bork's role. But I remember his appointment hearings and thought his nomination was nixed (accidental pun) because of the perception that he would overturn Roe v Wade.
Lazarus said:My family in the 60's were big Kennedy Democrats. In the 80's they were all Regan Republicans. Including me.