Tool Chest Builder: a True Conservative on Wartime Dissent
This should not be a partisan issue. Liberals and conservatives should agree: a President may need to fill in the gaps, but a President may not break a law passed by Congress. It's 6th grade Civics, right? Congress makes the laws, the president enforces them.
Once again, it is the Republicans who are letting partisanship get in the way of doing the right thing. Robert A. Taft said this just a couple of weeks after Pearl Harbor.
Once again, it is the Republicans who are letting partisanship get in the way of doing the right thing. Robert A. Taft said this just a couple of weeks after Pearl Harbor.
“As a matter of general principle, I believe there can be no doubt that criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government...(T)oo many people desire to suppress criticism simply because they think that it will give some comfort to the enemy to know that there is such criticism. If that comfort makes the enemy feel better for a few moments, they are welcome to it as far as I am concerned, because the maintenance of the right of criticism in the long run will do the country maintaining it a great deal more good than it will do the enemy, and will prevent mistakes which might otherwise occur. “
-"Mr. Republican,"
Sen. Robert Taft.
posted by KISSWeb | 6:44 PM
1 Comments:
Keep it up with the Taft scholarship, KISSweb. He's a goldmine of embarrassment for today's Republican poseurs--not, of course, that they or the 74 percent of Republicans who still somehow worship at the wingtips of President Faux-Cowboy give a rat's ass about their party's history or would even recognize intellectual consistency if it bit them in said anatomy.
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