Quote for the Year
Jan. 30th, 2007 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaunthieIndeed, this should be a quote for every year, for every American, as a basic part of every individual's responsibility as a citizen.
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else." --Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 (my emphasis added)
To reiterate: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Here's looking at you, Joe Lieberman, Rush Limbaugh, Tony Snow, Jonah Goldberg, Ann Coulter, and a depressingly long etcetera - you unpatriotic, servile, morally treasonable warts on the bum of America. Anyone who looks at Twinkie's record and then dares to suggest that ANY criticism of him and his presidency is wrong/unpatriotic/giving help and comfort to our enemies/treasonous needs a remedial course in basic civics and democratic principles at the very least.
And what sparked this latest outraged blog, might you ask? Beyond the egregious recent comments of the above-named morons about the "unpatriotic" behavior of Americans who dare to criticize the Great Decider?
Oh, just this little executive order, mentioned today in the New York Times:
"In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries. The White House will thus have a gatekeeper in each agency to analyze the costs and the benefits of new rules and to make sure the agencies carry out the president’s priorities."
That's right. Every agency (like, say, the EPA, the FDA, the FCC, the FAA...) must now have a political stooge (appointed by the President) to make sure whatever rules they are considering "carry out the president's priorities" in regards to regulating industry.
How Orwellian can you get? The Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves like high-speed lathes. This kind of overt political totalitarianism would give Stalin a buzz.
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else." --Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 (my emphasis added)
To reiterate: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Here's looking at you, Joe Lieberman, Rush Limbaugh, Tony Snow, Jonah Goldberg, Ann Coulter, and a depressingly long etcetera - you unpatriotic, servile, morally treasonable warts on the bum of America. Anyone who looks at Twinkie's record and then dares to suggest that ANY criticism of him and his presidency is wrong/unpatriotic/giving help and comfort to our enemies/treasonous needs a remedial course in basic civics and democratic principles at the very least.
And what sparked this latest outraged blog, might you ask? Beyond the egregious recent comments of the above-named morons about the "unpatriotic" behavior of Americans who dare to criticize the Great Decider?
Oh, just this little executive order, mentioned today in the New York Times:
"In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries. The White House will thus have a gatekeeper in each agency to analyze the costs and the benefits of new rules and to make sure the agencies carry out the president’s priorities."
That's right. Every agency (like, say, the EPA, the FDA, the FCC, the FAA...) must now have a political stooge (appointed by the President) to make sure whatever rules they are considering "carry out the president's priorities" in regards to regulating industry.
How Orwellian can you get? The Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves like high-speed lathes. This kind of overt political totalitarianism would give Stalin a buzz.
