Somewhere, it is written that I'm old skool. For example, I was an active watcher of the fall of Richard Nixon, resigning to avoid impeachment. Go back to those times a minute for a quick review:
Richard Nixon was almost impeached because his campaign committee had an unreported campaign slush fund, breaking campaign finance laws while playing tricks on Democratic candidates, and covering it up.
How incredibly quaint. What America, through our representatives, would not tolerate back then. The comparison is below the fold...
The America of today is very different. Here is what this administration has allowed and our representatives have tolerated -- and it's a limited list:
Ignoring repeated warnings of impending terrorist activities.
Secret prisons outside of the United States.
Abandonment of Osama Bin Laden in favor of unilateral invasion of a sovereign (but lousy) nation.
Lying about Weapons of Mass Destruction
Changing Terror from "Crime" to "War" and enabling every nut case to have a common enemy
Sending too few to fight and ignoring requests for more troops.
Authorizing $20 million for governmental victory celebrations on wars we shouldn't have been in and have not won.
Gitmo trials - not.
Removing 900 years of habeas corpus.
Authorizing torture on prisoners
Repudiating the Geneva Convention
Attempting to privatize Social Security
Enriching the rich and ignoring the rest
Oil dependence, not energy independence
A Katrina rescue mission that showed the world how unprepared we are to handle any emergency.
Defining an "Axis of Evil" - and not including the United States (OK, that's snark...)
3,000 of our dead, 20,000 wounded. Tens of thousands of deaths on the other side. In a war we should never have been in that had "Mission Accomplished" stamped on it years ago.
We, and our representatives, tolerate that today as compared to a campaign finance law cover up in the 1970's.
But, we have now found common ground between the political parties: illicit sex trumps everything.
Not the dead. Not the wounded. Not the standing of America in the World's eyes. Not the lies. Not the explicit racism. Not the removal of our Constitutional rights. Not the torture.
It just took me a long time. It's the sex, Old Abe. It's the sex.
I wish I would have know that in year one of this administration. We could have had a takedown a long time ago.
Get out the vote.
Old Abe