Well, where do we start. I guess we start with Al Gore letting his opponent's "family" steal an election from him without so much as a raised eyebrow; hell, he even chuckled at the quaintness of the Congressional Black Caucus pointing out one particularly heinous aspect of that theft.
And that, following as it did the Clinton Penis Envy Flogging Sessions, set up the pattern: GOP throat-grabbing when the slightest bit of unprotected Dem flesh is shown, followed by Dem throat-clearing when orders-of-magnitude-more-serious GOP crimes are not only committed in broad daylight, but also admitted to by the Republican criminals in question.
Cue the laugh track.
Or not.
Here; read this:
"Well, yeah, the Constitution is worth it if you can succeed." -Nancy Pelosi, 6/29/07.
That comment was made in response to Mike Stark, when he pressed her about her (and the Party's) unwillingness to bring the criminals in the Bush Administration to justice by demanding a Special Prosecutor, and/or absent that, demanding and working toward, an Impeachment trial.
"The odds were stacked against us," Pelosi and all the other Dem leaders plead.
Jesus. For a dram of GOP political go-for-the-kill instinct in the ranks of Democratic leadership. The Sestack Dustup, while serious if true, is, again, orders of magnitude less so than any dozen Bush-era crimes (let alone the criminality of BP and Massey Coal), but the subtext is our "leaders'" documented fight against us, the grassroots, as they preferred an actual Republican who has screwed us repeatedly.
Let the Special Prosecutor be appointed, I say. And if there's never an investigation of the GOP's Turn of the 21st Century Crime Wave, at least we will have nailed some capitulating Democratic assholes.
Maybe this is what TS Eliot was talking about.