It’s a Duty, Not a Lifelong Career
Im’ fairly sure that a lot of Republicans are seeing this story as a bad thing. I don’t.
Veteran Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) is expected to announce tomorrow that he will retire from the Senate in 2008, according to several informed sources, a decision that further complicates an already difficult playing field for Republicans next November.
I largely like the work that Senator Domenici has done and think he’s served this country well. That said, I’m glad he’s stepping down. No one should spend most of their working career as a US Senator, or as a poliician, for that matter. Politics in America was always meant to be a part-time job. It was something a person did when they were needed, for only as long as they were needed. They served a few years, then went back to the jobs and lives they built before they entered politics.
One of our big problems today is that there is that politics is a career position. It doesn’t take much thought to determine that having career politicians is a bad thing for democracy and for government by the people. Think about it for a second. If you’ve been doing something for twenty or thirty years, how kindly would you take it if someone was always telling you how to do your job and demanding that they do what you want them to do? You wouldn’t take it well and neither would I. Politicians aren’t immune to human nature.
I see this as a good sign for the Republican Party. It’s also something on which they can campaign. Very few things can separate them from the Democrats better than demonstrating, in the person of Pete Domenici, that they are not the party of lifelong politicians who have been in office so long that the will of the people no longer matters to them.
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nice try
Get in.
Steal as much as you can.
Trash what remains.
Get out.
it will also give pete time to work on his defense for when his obstruction of justice charges are brought. don’t forget, he’s still under investigation….
Oh, you mean the thing with the US Attorney?
What a joke. The President can hire or fire them at will. End of fake controversy. I kind of hope the President fired a US Attorney whose knees tremble when a Senator calls once and asks how a particular case is going. I don’t want that person prosecuting any case. Ever.
I’m considering rewinding to the part where Pete tells us he’s concerned not only about the moral state of the country, but also about what’s been coming out of his ass lately. I mean, they edited it for MSM consumption, but the guy says it started with turds that were in the shape of #2 yellow Ticonderoga pencils, then spinning tops, now he says they look like small forest creatures, characters from Tolkien tales and astral projections of alien beings hoping to beam him up to the mother ship in time for the Rapture. What do you think? We’ve got a lot of time on my hands (idle hands, the devils work, and such) before we throw the whole lot of lollygaggers out. What shall we do, what shall we do? Lot’s o’ questions, no possible answer. Some say drugs is the answer. That’s too simple. Tried it, been there, done that, too much of a hassle, and what about those running sores? All those running sores. Personally, I’m thinking maybe coffee enemas or I’ll get a paper route.
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My friends, this whole process is going to be a piece of cake with carpet tacks substituted for raisins. And the reason for my hubbub, bubs? Two hours sleep the previous night, courtesy of some lame pudenda ramming my poor truck’s funky butt almost nigh 3 ½ years hence. Yea, I heard the cock crow, the mermaid sing, and the fat man chuckle as he set off on yet another adventure in search of the fabled black bird. The stuff dreams are made of? Or take your dreams and get stuffed? I guess it’s just as confusing on the other side of the eight ball as well. I suppose Mr. Hawking never took my lie dream of the casino soul scene seriously, so I’m left right were I started, searching for that singularity. Save your pennies for your eyes and eye/wheel hit this subject betwixt the nose, nostrils held thusly! Send lawyers, guns, and money!
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jimmie,
So the President can fire any USA who don’t hand him a suitcase full of twenty dollar bills each month?
Nice.
Of course, that didn’t happen in this case. He only fired those who would not politicize the Justice Department.
Why SHOULD the Justice Department mete out justice fairly anyway?
Since you brought up fake controversies, remember way back when MoveOn.org rightfully called out Petraeus for being a political hack?
Without those kind of fake controversies America’s fainting couch industry might have gone belly up.
The president has the authority to fire any US attorney. Period. Why no gnashing of teeth when Clinton fired every damn one of them? Huh?
Robert, the President can fire any US Attorney (or Cabinet members, the Attorney General, the Director of the CIA or FBI, and many others) for any reason at all. They are “at will” employees. It’s hardly a novel thing. In most police departments, the top echelon of officers (the bureau and department chiefs) serve at the will of the Chief or Superintendent and can be fired without any reason given.
And let me correct you on something else. MoveOn did not call General Petraeus a political hack. They called him a liar and a traitor. That’s different. Check your dictionary.
Heard on the news yesterday (haven’t seen it confirmed anywhere) that Domenici has a terminal incurable brain condition. Don’t know any specifics.
In fact, MoveOn did call “call” Petraeus anything. What they, in fact, did was place his claims alongside the facts to highlight the falsehoods in his claims. Then they asked questions about those discrepancies and contradictions allowing the reader to, upon examination of the facts, come to their own conclusions. For those of us who care about the truth, it was clear that he was “carrying water”, as it were, for the NeoCon agenda, led by Bush et al, at the expense of the truth. Which is what got us into this war in the first place. Call them whatever you want – cooked facts, history re-written, incomplete intelligence – the NeoCon agenda is based on lies. I guess the NeoCon political hacks take this so personally because people who tell lies are usually, in fact, referred to as, well, liars.