Reply #108: everybody has a different idea of bad consequences [View All]

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at least different groups do. In their view, our policies lead to over a million dead babies a year from abortions. Note, I am not saying their view is valid, but they certainly believe it is. We may shake our heads and ask how they can ignore global warming, civilian casualties, and habeas corpus and they wonder how we can ignore a million babies.

To give a couple examples from the memory hole. Back in the 1990s, President Clinton was issuing signing statements and using executive privilege to fight Congressional subpoenas. He also paid something like $700,000 to Paula Jones to settle her lawsuit. Granted that the adultery and lying about Lewinsky were not a big deal. (Certainly I would be willing to over-look that for my man John Edwards, if he actually kept pushing on his promises to end poverty.) But sexual harrassment at work IS a big deal - isn't it?

As I discovered during the primary season, President Clinton made phone calls to help kill SCHIP because he said it would hurt the budget agreement. Yet at the same time he was also pushing a tax cut with huge benefits for the wealthy, including a big reduction in the inheritance tax. DU's Hillary supporters did not want to hear any of this in the primary season.

It's human nature, we cover up or ignore the flaws of those we see as friends, and we magnify and exxagerate the flaws of those we see as enemies.

DU being Underground, and with a solid and vocal contingent of Greens and socialist symps, will always have a faction that is quite happy to bash Obama, Pelosi and Reid. At least I have not seen a purge while I have been here. But Obama, Pelosi and Reid will also always have their defenders here too.