Some Perspective Please
Conservative Jonah Goldberg writing in the liberal LA Times on the subject of the over-the-top poisonous rhetoric that dominates our political circus:
At Sunday’s trial lawyer conference, for example, Barack Obama proclaimed that “people are tired of ‘Scooter’ Libby justice.” Clinton’s pardons for loyalist Susan McDougal, billionaire tax-evader Marc Rich and bomb-setting Puerto Rican nationalists apparently have slipped down the memory hole. For eight years, the right screamed bloody murder about Clinton’s overreaching. He minted new executive privileges, “accidentally” rummaged through the FBI files of political opponents and sought electronic wiretapping powers — during peacetime — that today are denounced during the war on terror. Some on the right feared we were on a slippery slope to tyranny. Liberals often chortled about such right-wing paranoia.
“over-the-top poisonous rhetoric that dominates our political circus”
Translation:
“Those that don’t share my point of view won’t roll over and die quietly.”
I don’t see where I said one party was at fault. In the 90s the Republicans were nearly as bad.