Thursday, March 22, 2007
Abu Gonzalez' US Attorney purge and the degeneration of the Republican PartyCracker legend Theodore BilboJosh Marshall, whose TalkingPointsMemo blog operation has taken a key role in driving the US Attorneys purge story, wrote in a post of 03/21/07: Back up a bit from the sparks flying over executive privilege and congressional testimony and you realize that these are textbook cases of the party in power interfering or obstructing the administration of justice for narrowly partisan purposes. It's a direct attack on the rule of law.But there was a time and a place where this kind of behavior was the norm in the United States: the crassy politicized justice, ignoring the rule of law, rampant crony capitalism, massive governmental corruption, rank dishonesty in government, and swaggering arrogance on the part of public executives. It was in the American South during the segregation decades. The governments of Mississippi under Ross Barnett, or Arkansas under Orville Faubus, to take just two examples, operated much like this. But it's not that they were exceptional in that. It was more-or-less the way that segregation governments worked. Those with notably more integrity were the exceptions. Today's Republican Party is the hell-spawn of the marriage of Nixonian cynicism to segregationist cracker politics, the mature result of Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy" started nearly four decades ago. Tags: attorney purge, authoritarianism, republican party | +Save/Share | | |
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