After defaming a Georgetown Prep classmate of Brett Cavanaugh’s on twitter last week, Very Serious Person (™) Ed Whelan did the only thing he COULD do, being President of a conservative think tank called the “Ethics and Public Policy Center.”
He resigned his position.
But the Board of EPPC, filled with other Very Serious People (™), in its deep and significantly unethical way, declined to accept his resignation.
I’ll say that again: The Board of the ETHICS and Public Policy Center, in Washington DC, DECLINED the resignation of its President (who publicly defamed a private citizen, by showing his pictures, both past and present, and layouts of his childhood home, and accused HIM of attempted rape of Ms. Ford).
The board of the Ethics and Public Policy Center convened a special telephonic meeting on Friday, September 21, 2018. After the meeting, Edward Whelan, who has led EPPC with integrity and excellence for many years, offered his resignation in light of what he described as an “appalling and inexcusable” error in posting online a series of comments that he has now deleted and for which he promptly publicly apologized. After deliberation, the board declined to accept Mr. Whelan’s resignation, but determined that he will take a leave of absence from the organization during which time Yuval Levin, EPPC’s Vice President and Hertog Fellow, will be in charge. The board will meet in a month to review the situation.
One wonders how that meeting went:
Chairman: “Wait until it all blows over?”
Board Members: “aye” “aye” “aye” “aye” “aye” “aye” ……. “nay”
Chairman: “WHO said NAY?!?!”
Board Member: “……..…………………………..…….aye?”
Chairman: “the aye’s have it.” Meeting adjourned.
Let’s meet for apple crisp and decaf coffee in the sex dungeon……….
Why not tell the EPPC what you think about all of this?
ethics@eppc.org
Phone: (202) 682-1200
Fax: (202) 408-0632
Make sure to tell them who sent you.
Monday, Sep 24, 2018 · 2:10:24 PM +00:00 · AlyoshaKaramazov
It appears not everyone at EPPC is not am R-toady
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The Full-Spectrum Corruption of Donald Trump
For decades, Republicans, and especially conservative Republicans, insisted that character counted in public life. They were particularly vocal about this during the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal, arguing against “compartmentalization” — by which they meant overlooking moral turpitude in the Oval Office because you agree with the president’s policy agenda or because the economy is strong.
Senator Lindsey Graham, then in the House, went so far as to argue that “impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”
All that has changed with Mr. Trump as president. For Republicans, honor and integrity are now passé. We saw it again last week when the president’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen — standing in court before a judge, under oath — implicated Mr. Trump in criminal activity, while his former campaign chairman was convicted in another courtroom on financial fraud charges. Most Republicans in Congress were either silent or came to Mr. Trump’s defense, which is how this tiresome drama now plays itself out.
It is a stunning turnabout. A party that once spoke with urgency and apparent conviction about the importance of ethical leadership — fidelity, honesty, honor, decency, good manners, setting a good example — has hitched its wagon to the most thoroughly and comprehensively corrupt individual who has ever been elected president. Some of the men who have been elected president have been unscrupulous in certain areas — infidelity, lying, dirty tricks, financial misdeeds — but we’ve never before had the full-spectrum corruption we see in the life of Donald Trump.