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Personal responsibility. Is this just an abstract concept to those in power today? I don't understand it. I was raised to take responsibility for my actions - I make a mistake, I own up to it, say I am sorry and try to make it right.
But typical of the right-wingers currently in office, Shrub and his lackeys appear to be avoiding personal responsibility. Sure, when the name of the person who leaked a CIA operative's name to the press was just an anonymous press leak, the Bush White House took the hard line.
"The White House promised if anyone was involved in the Valerie Plame affair, they would no longer be in this administration," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "I trust they will follow through on this pledge. If these allegations are true, this rises above politics and is about our national security."
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The disclosure also left in doubt whether Bush would carry out his promise to fire anyone found to have leaked the CIA operative's identity. Rove is one of the president's closest confidants - the man Bush has described as the architect of his re-election, and currently deputy White House chief of staff.
(From Excite News)
Today, it came to light that Karl Rove, one of those closest to Shrub, is one of the people responsible for leaking the operative's name. Has the White House done anything about this? Have they fired him? Have they pulled his security clearances? No, nothing doing. The hard line rhetoric has proven to be just a line of crap fed to us by a whole bunch of suit-wearing weasels.
Same thing with Rush Limbaugh. "Yes, all drug users and dealers should be locked up and the key thrown away!" Six months later..."Well, I didn't mean ME of course - I am sick, I have an illness!! You can't have my medical records! Wah fuckin' wah!!"
Damned hypocrites. Not that liberals are less hypocritical, I guess. They are just less bold about it.
But typical of the right-wingers currently in office, Shrub and his lackeys appear to be avoiding personal responsibility. Sure, when the name of the person who leaked a CIA operative's name to the press was just an anonymous press leak, the Bush White House took the hard line.
"The White House promised if anyone was involved in the Valerie Plame affair, they would no longer be in this administration," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "I trust they will follow through on this pledge. If these allegations are true, this rises above politics and is about our national security."
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The disclosure also left in doubt whether Bush would carry out his promise to fire anyone found to have leaked the CIA operative's identity. Rove is one of the president's closest confidants - the man Bush has described as the architect of his re-election, and currently deputy White House chief of staff.
(From Excite News)
Today, it came to light that Karl Rove, one of those closest to Shrub, is one of the people responsible for leaking the operative's name. Has the White House done anything about this? Have they fired him? Have they pulled his security clearances? No, nothing doing. The hard line rhetoric has proven to be just a line of crap fed to us by a whole bunch of suit-wearing weasels.
Same thing with Rush Limbaugh. "Yes, all drug users and dealers should be locked up and the key thrown away!" Six months later..."Well, I didn't mean ME of course - I am sick, I have an illness!! You can't have my medical records! Wah fuckin' wah!!"
Damned hypocrites. Not that liberals are less hypocritical, I guess. They are just less bold about it.