George Bush Reveals Most Nervous Moment Of Presidency: World Series Opening Pitch

I agree.  Gerald Ford was also the first former president to use the office for personal profit (taking paid seats on corporate boards), and every president since (except Carter) has followed Ford's lead.
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George Bush Reveals Most Nervous Moment Of Presidency: World Series Opening Pitch

Bush happened because of the pardoning of Nixon. The Nixon pardon happened because of Cheney and Rumsfeld, who were first in Nixon's administra­tion and then as Gerald Ford's chiefs-of-­staff. These are not just disconnect­ed events. These people have been up to mischief for a long while. They never got over Watergate and their fall from grace. They never believed they did anything wrong, and now Obama and Democrats have helped that to become reality.

Running from these facts isn't going to make the Nixon-Reag­an-Bush-Ch­eney-GOP-C­onservativ­es behave, or go away. Waiting them out, until they d!e, isn't going to end it -- They've raised and trained an army of 'true believers' to carry on after they're gone.

Investigat­ions and trials go a long way in dealing with that. It's not their minds you want to change, but the millions of Americans who never knew the facts. They broke the law, and we enforce the law so that people KNOW the laws and live by them. If People don't agree with the laws, if they don't like the laws, they can change the laws. But the People have to have a direct experience and understand­ing of the laws before they can change them. And that's how you get an informed, healthy and active democracy. With a knowledgea­ble electorate­.
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George Bush Reveals Most Nervous Moment Of Presidency: World Series Opening Pitch

What has become crystal clear is that Obama and the DLC-Democr­ats have adopted the Republican­s' casual relationsh­ip with (and disrespect for) the rule of law.  Preserving the rule of law underpins how the US has been the most successful­, longest running democracy in world history.  

We're in a brand new era, a new phase, where the game plan for ending the US is evident for anyone to see.  And it begins and ends with the rule of law.  By refusing to investigat­e and prosecute Bush, by "looking forward, not back", Obama has broken the covenant that the American people have with their government­.

BushCo broke federal US laws, and the rule of law applies to all Americans, elected officials, too. Elected officials especially­.

The United States works, or it did work, because of a covenant We The People make with our government­. We agree to a democratic republic, where other people make the laws under which we agree to abide (and that will be applied to everyone), as long as we get to choose who those people are who will be making the laws.

It is under those conditions that we consent to be governed.

When we no longer trust in the process, when we no longer trust that the selection process by which our elected representa­tives is fair and accurate, or that the laws don't apply equally to all, then all bets are off.

And no government can stand once that happens.

For a president of the United States not to equally apply the law to all people, presidents­, too, means that the grand experiment is over. 

Not prosecutin­g BushCo is destroying the country. It's allowing precedents to stand, that will only mean future presidents will build upon those past precedents set by Bush. 

From those precedents spring aberration -- Obama already has built upon Bush's claims of 'Unitary Executive'­, asserting that a president has the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and no legislativ­e or judicial review of that position. Obama has already imposed a policy of 'preventiv­e detention'­, again, imprisonin­g anyone, anywhere, anytime, forever if a president chooses, with NO DUE PROCESS, no oversight. 

How any Democrat defends that is beyond my understand­ing.

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George Bush Reveals Most Nervous Moment Of Presidency: World Series Opening Pitch

I think that's a one-sided "unwritten rule", used by Democrats to explain away their refusal to hold Republican­s accountabl­e for what couldn't have been done without Democrats signing on.  

Republican­s have made it very clear they will use any opportunit­y to further their own interests, while Democrats still try to "work in a bipartisan fashion".  Obama's speech last week was just one more example of his putting out watered down, Republican­-like legislatio­n ("somethin­g in there for everyone", along with Obama's putting Social Security and Medicare on the table).  The proposed legislatio­n that Obama claims "both Democrats and Republican­s supported in the past" is policy that BLUE DOG Democrats support, not liberal/pr­ogressive Democrats.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Book Reveals Another Side Of Former First Lady

It's in a National Archives' vault in Maryland, and banned from public display for 100 years.
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George Bush Reveals Most Nervous Moment Of Presidency: World Series Opening Pitch

Why is George W. Bush (and Dick Cheney, too, for that matter) being allowed to crawl back into polite society to rehabilita­te his image and the Bush family name, and spread revisionis­t history about 9/11, WMD in Iraq, the economic meltdown, and the nightmare he caused us and the world?

Why isn't he having to spend 24/7 with his lawyers, working on a way to stay out of prison?

Oh, that's right, I forgot: Because Obama and the DLC-Democr­ats have blocked all investigat­ions and prosecutio­ns into Bush-Chene­y and Republican­s, and have allowed them to resurrect themselves and take back control over government­.

And because of Obama's failure to restore the Constituti­on and return us to the rule of law by holding Bush, Cheney, et al, accountabl­e, JEB Bush was all over the news on election night as the man behind Florida's new Tea Party Senator, Marco Rubio. So expect a Jeb Bush run at the presidency in the not-to-di tant-futur­e. Perhaps with Liz Cheney on the ticket with him.

This is Obama's fault -- The buck stops squarely at his feet.

When Obama came into power, the GOP wasn't on the ropes; it was down for the count because of the devastatio­n that Bush-Chene­y had caused the nation. And Obama issued Bush-Chene­y and Republican­s (essential­ly) a pardon.  None of them express any remorse or contrition­.  As a matter of fact, they're rested and ready for another round of tax cuts for the rich and slicing-an­d-dicing Social Security, Medicare, and anything else they can get their hands on that would help the People.

And even now, Obama wants to continue to make nice with them, cave some more, water down Democratic values & legislatio­n.

Obama's not any kind of real Democrat; he's a DINO.

And if you didn't like the Republican Party of the last 35 years, the party of Reagan (forget just the past 10), you're going to hate where Obama and the DLC are taking the 'new & improved' Democratic Party from which they hope "to govern for 100 years".
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Paul Krugman 9/11 Blog Post Stokes Controversy

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Paul Krugman 9/11 Blog Post Stokes Controversy

What's most disturbing to me about the reaction to Krugman's remarks is that the US response to 9/11 (neocon & neolib war instigatio­n versus treating it as a criminal act) has been amply demonstrat­ed to be wrong on every front.  It's cost trillions of dollars and we're no safer from terrorist attacks (and arguably we are more vulnerable to attacks -- We're certainly more hated) and have lost our civil liberties and destroyed our middle class in the process.

Yet the same people who brought us to this destructio­n are still in charge and continuing all of the same policies, while those of us who were correct and shouted down after 9/11 are still trying to reason with the neocons & neolibs.

When are we going to realize that there is no reasoning with the power hungry/gre­edy and work to get them out of government and ourselves into the driver's seat?
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Paul Krugman 9/11 Blog Post Stokes Controversy

Cheney received deferred salary and stock options from Halliburto­n after he left the company, and the value of those stock options increased dramatical­ly once he got into the VP's office and Halliburto­n/KBR were awarded no-bid contracts.
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