parados wrote: An interesting take on the outcome okie... So if an entire party votes one direction and the other party splits does that always equate to the party that votes completely together is putting their party ahead of the law? That is the only objective standard I see in your statement. Come up with a different one if you can.
I see more lockstep and group think among Democrats, with the exception of an occasional Zell Miller. In general, Republicans tend to act and vote more as individuals, not entirely of course, but moreso than the Democrats. Of course, this makes sense because the Democratic Party is a party of groupies, such as unions, etc., whereas the Republican Party is a party that believes in individual rights and responsibilities. Even campaign contributions reflect this.
Increasingly, the morality of the Democratic Party can be likened to the old frontier philosophy of "good and bad" as opposed to "good and evil." Its good to steal a horse from somebody else's tribe, but bad, very bad, to steal a horse, even a trinket from your own tribe. The act of stealing may be good or it may be bad, the act itself cannot be judged, it is who you do it to. Same philosophy now. Corruption was not an issue a few years ago. Now, its a huge issue. Strange how that works isn't it Parados?
More okie observations from personal observation of politics over the last 50 years. Of course none of this is valid, right?
The point of all this is the obvious point that if Clinton were in office now doing the very same thing with "wiretapping" terrorist connections, the political firestorm, if any, would display itself in a totally different fashion. First of all, I do not think it would be a controversy, in fact, we might not have even heard about it because it might not have been leaked in the first place. The same partisanship is reflected in the fact that a Democrat icon, as FDR, is never condemned in the same fashion than if it had been Richard Nixon that had rounded up the thousands and thousands of Japanese Americans and placed them in concentration camps. Nixon would now be compared to Joseph Stalin or Adolph Hitler in the history books. I think everybody here knows this, but perhaps not all would admit it.
