I'm reminded of Rush Limbaugh's retorical question about how much damage one man can do (in the last two years of his presidency). Now we know.
On the other hand, had the bent serial purjurer been impeached we would now have Albert Gore as president.... and that thought leaves me hyperventilating.
Indeed, if not for a small cuban boy, this Nation would now be in mortal danger.
There's an old saying, "De mortuis nil nisi bonum." But exceptions must be made for public figures, when the good of the Republic requires that we speak the truth.
Senator Moynihan was an extremely intelligent man--absolutely brilliant, in fact--who also knew the difference between good and evil through his Catholic upbringing. He had a remarkable degree of moral and intellectual insight for a United States Senator.
Senator Moynihan was among the first to perceive that the welfare system was destroying black families. He said as much to Lyndon Johnson. Johnson leaned in him in some manner or other--probably blackmail--Moynihan caved, and the War on Poverty went forward like a juggernaut to break up almost ALL the black families in the inner cities, throw them on welfare and into drug dealing, and thus incidentally adding them to the roster of reliable Democrat voters feeding at the public trough.
The same pattern repeated itself again and again. Moynihan had the intelligence to discern the truth, and he had the moral insight to discern right from wrong; but again and again he chose wrong out of political expediency.
The clinton impeachment trial and the gift of his senate seat to Hillary! were only two of the latest incidents in this sad decay of a great man.
Most of the time it could be seen by the dullest eye that Senator Moynihan was drunk. I doubt that his blood alcohol level ever went below 0.1%, even when he woke up in the morning before taking his first drink. I have always assumed that he drank like a fish because he had a bad conscience and was seeking forgetfulness.
Let's hope that he repented in the end before he died. What is certain is that this man of great promise left behind him a legacy of shame. If he had not been a major public figure, we could let sleeping dogs lie. As it is, we have an obligation to speak the truth about his political betrayals, in the faint hope that other politicians may behave better in the future or that voters may learn better sense than to keep voting such failures into office.
IF-->> Monihan were smart he would'nt be a democrat...
He was a (unrepentant)democrat therefore... Duuh!..
There are three words >NOT< found in the American Constitution; Democracy, Democrat, Democratic By design, it's not an ommision. The founding fathers knew these words and deemed not to include them. If you don't know why, then you are politically naieve and subject to the lies of dumbocrats, as they try ever harder to make the U.S. a democracy, and its working
It's not easy to take the democrat out of the party BUT it is damned near impossible to take the democrat out of the democrat. All you end up with is a RINO{Republican in NAME only}
Actually anybody that thinks democrat is a benign word presupposes.....gross ignorance...
Good one, here....thanks Mia.
