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"Not one commenter has addressed the thesis of my post; that Reid’s junketing and missing a former President’s funeral is violating both good manners and tradition."
Well, before Gerald Ford it was "traditional" to wait until AFTER someone is convicted of a crime before granting him a pardon. Party loyalty: 1 -- Tradition: 0. And Gerald Ford our "least partisan" president??? Ford actually boasted that he set a record for the number of bills he vetoed (66). On a brighter note, I'm sure Bush will do his damnedest to break that record in the next 2 years, thereby giving new meaning to the word "bipartisan" (and convincing voters that the only way to get this country back on track is to put a Democrat in the White House).
Oh, and where I come from, meeting with the presidents of 3 South American countries hardly qualifies as "junketing". Now Tom DeLay's golf trips at taxpayer expense ... that's what I call junketing.
Gerald Ford spent all of 2-1/2 years as president and he wasn't even elected to the office, he deprived this country of the right to know exactly how corrupt the Nixon administration was, and he didn't even have the courage to let Woodward publish his disapproval of Bush until after he was dead. Harry Reid might be guilty of "bad manners" but maybe he decided that was better than being guilty of hyprocrisy.
Comment Posted By 3reddogs On 31.12.2006 @ 10:00
