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>LOL. His opponents also campaigned on bringing troops home, but now act aghast that the words become deeds. Bad Bad BOM.
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Agreed. If Obama had done this (he should have) he'd have been hailed as a peacemaker.

> His cutout is the AG- but since AG serves at his pleasure, a venal officeholder willing to flout tradition and decency could launch personal attacks on whomever she pleases.
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Lots of precedent for that.

From Wikipedia, regarding John Mitchell, Nixon's AG:

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On February 21, 1975, Mitchell, who was represented by the criminal defense attorney William G. Hundley, was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison for his role in the Watergate break-in and cover-up, which he dubbed the "White House horrors." As a result of the conviction, Mitchell was disbarred from the practice of law in New York.[55] The sentence was later reduced to one to four years by United States district court Judge John J. Sirica. Mitchell served only 19 months of his sentence at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery (in Maxwell Air Force Base) in Montgomery, Alabama, a minimum-security prison, before being released on parole for medical reasons.[56]

MItchell's successor, Richard Kleindienst, wasn't much cleaner.

Bad things happen when law enforcement people start mixing with politics.



>Until now the impediments were precedent/the expectation of good faith and the 4th Estate. The former is destroyed by the antics of the likes of Schiff and the latter has emasculated itself via overt bias. You guys better wake up: a good business principle is "what if everybody did it" and at the moment, lots of mud is being flung by people who could not survive if the tactics they claim are noble and proper when used against your disgusting degenerate, were applied in reverse. Wait for it...
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Agreed. I get my news on CSPAN where I can see people saying things first hand. No one is telling me what someone else said or what it meant.

>And while all that goes on: if the Republic has any hope, you need a "Congressional Corruption" bill that does away with the ridiculous notion that corrupt practice becomes noble if it's via preferential IPO access rather than cash or via a placeholder entity to disguise origin or unnatural benefits accrued by family members or any of the rest of it. Might open up the field for a better sort of candidate too.


Benjamin Franklin, a printer, became Postmaster General because the guy before him refused to distribute Franklin's magazines in the US mail.
Washington has extensive land holding in the then-western frontiers that were being threatened by native warriors, and his insistence on a strong military to protect those frontiers benefited him greatly.

That's the way things have always been here and that's OK because they were both open about it.
The professional political class wasn't around then, however.
Now we have people doing things solely for the purpose of staying in office.
Here in NJ we have US reps whose sole job is keep a military base - that has no earthly reason to exist- open because of the jobs it supports.
Bad things happen when people think that way.