The measure of a man is what he does with power. ~Plato
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Posted on 05/13/2014 1:59:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The return of Benghazi is the latest evidence that the GOP is putting its unhinged obsessions before the good of the country.
Back in March 2013, I wrote a column titled, "Why I am no longer a Republican." A more accurate (though admittedly more ponderous) title would have been, "One important reason among many that I am no longer a Republican."
That important reason was the Iraq War, which I never supported and which the Bush administration and its legion of defenders in Washington and around the country justified in terms that struck me at the time as highly ideological, fundamentally anti-empirical, and more than a little paranoid. Let's just say that nothing that happened after the initial invasion persuaded me that my original instincts were wrong.
If the Iraq War debacle had been an isolated incident — one that Republicans forthrightly acknowledged as a mistake and showed signs of learning from — it's possible that I wouldn't have bolted the party.
But it wasn't an isolated incident. It was the start of a whole new era for the GOP — an era in which the stridently ideological, anti-empirical, and paranoid tendencies that gained the upper hand in the run-up to the Iraq War (and which had always been present in certain factions of the conservative movement) infected the party from top to bottom, corrupting its thinking on foreign and domestic policy and inspiring its lockstep opposition to the Obama administration's governing agenda from day one.
Today, my voting record says I'm a Democrat. I voted for Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008 and 2012. I nearly always support Democrats in House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections. But I don't identify closely with or feel deep loyalty to the Democratic Party, its agenda, or its electoral coalition....
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
“unhinged obsessions”.... “Good of the country”...
Remember kiddies...
Nothing is a crime if Committed-While-Democrat!
Just ask anyone at CBS/ABC/CNN/MSNBC/NPR/NBC/E!/TMA/TheDailyShow/WashPost/Pacifica/NYTimes about this.
Damon sounds like he’s been listening to too much Jackson Browne.
The measure of a man is what he does with power. ~Plato
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Obama surrendered at Benghazi. He cut a surrender deal with Al Qaeda. Then, he provided Al Qaeda with funds, weapons, armored vehicles and night vision equipment. That is treason. That’s why the Democrats are fighting this to the death. It could be life or death for some of them.
“Nothing is a crime if Committed-While-Democrat!”
It seems lefties have an “assumption of benevolent intent” towards all ‘rat politicians.
Even if they do commit technically illegal acts,
it’s OK because they mean well.
Yup. I’ve got to feel a bit sorry for Leon Panetta for all those years of faithfully serving the RAT machine in congress and other appointed positions. In the end, they throw him under the bus for showing a little integrity on this one single solitary issue.
Well then, instead of telling you to eat s**t, how about you eat some used food?
From what I skimmed, this is the typical leftist moron.
Why do you suppose that this fragile shell of a man ever supported the Republican Party? I don’t believe him; he’s probably a homosexual, if I were to guess. Bob
Yep. They did just because they could. Here is a guy who was totally loyal to party and state department, went to the right schools, toed the party line faithfully, was even the right sexual orientation and they toss him under the bus just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
This guy is way too into himself. Why would anyone else care about his opinions enough to read all his opuses?
Today, my voting record says I'm a Democrat. I voted for Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008 and 2012. I nearly always support Democrats in House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections. But I don't identify closely with or feel deep loyalty to the Democratic Party, its agenda, or its electoral coalition.
That's also silly. I suppose in Damon's media world, everybody he meets is a slave to one party or the other, to one party's monolithic world view or the other's.
In the real world, at least a quarter -- maybe a third -- of voters don't feel strong loyalty or attachment or identification with either of the two major parties.
People out there are Democrats or Republicans in the same way that Damon Linker is a Democrat -- not a Republican -- because they dislike the party they usually (or always) vote for less than the other one.
But we don't feel the need to send out missives regularly about our opinions and their evolution.
Oh, PLEASE Damon. You live near Philadelphia. We are SO close to making progress there. What do we have to do to persuade you and your Ithaca-educated wife to become Republicans and put our Grand Old Party over the top in Philadelphia?
If you can tell me why 4 Americans died on American soil and no one came to their aid or was held accountable, then I will agree with you.
If you vote for a Marxist, what does that make you?
Pray America wakes up
I guess he wasn’t getting the invites to all the cool people’s parties he was expecting..................
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
What bunch of BS nonsense.
........while he was dying, while Obama was preparing for a trip to Las Vegas. This guy doesn’t care to know what happened?
Another Commie justifying his transgressions?
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