“What difference does it make?” Hillary notoriously asked in the Benghazi hearings. The absolute abdication of principle and betrayal of oaths by the Republicans once more brings that question to the fore, but this time in the context of an old admission from one of Bill Clinton’s ideological mentors. “The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers,” Georgetown University professor Carroll Quigley advocated.
“Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.”
Here’s the roll call for the House and for the Senate.
How did your “servants” vote?
Kurt Russell in “Tombstone” asks the essential question each of us must answer:
“Are you going to do something or just stand there and bleed?”
