It seems to me, without knowing much about it, that the Democrats have as much or more to lose from this escapade in Ukraine than Trump Republicans, in the long run.
Biden is on video at some conference crowing about withholding a billion dollars, doubtless at President Obama's direction, in exchange for some internal Ukrainian official firing, I think the prosecutor under discussion now, and doubtless also had his son, who sits on a board of a gas company in Ukraine, a non public official, involved covertly as well.
"...They don't really know, to tell the truth, what an ambassador is for...." George F. Kennan, 'Flashacks'
"...That is not all. To be offended by the subversion of our constitutional order, the public needs to understand and revere it. It no longer does. The Constitution--or at least, the 20th century interpretation of it--has been under attack for decades by the Right, who want to cripple the federal power to regulate the economy (something which, by the way, was well established at the time the Constitution was adopted.) Increasingly university students learn nothing about the Constitution except that it did not specifically enshrine equal rights for female and black inhabitants of the country. The reverence for the Constitution that Lincoln used to fight and win the civil war, that civil rights leaders exploited in the middle of the twentieth century, and that Sam Ervin and others used to bring down Nixon, is almost absent from our public discussions today. It will not bring the necessary Senate Republicans over to the side of conviction...." DK
I would point out here the unfortunate Whig partisan bias in this account, though true, of attacks on the Constitution, and to present at least a thumbnail sketch of the enormous but often glossed over attacks on the constitution from both the liberal center, and from the left including the infiltrated Soviet communist left, which, if anything, have been more devastating, than the much more recent and much weaker attacks on the constitution from the Right.
Thumbnail sketch coming soon.
"There was at Yalta specifically talk of a supranational body that would prevent outbreaks of future warfare and ensure the universal reign of justice. (The subject had earlier been raised at Quebec and Teheran.) This was a chief preoccupation of FDR, who in emulation of Woodrow Wilson before him thought the founding of such an agency would be his great legacy to the future." Stalin's Secret Agents, p. 15
You see here that the left liberal project, going back to the American Rebellion and the French Revolution, was deeply skeptical of all states having any strength, or even for example having a standing army at all. They rebelled against monarchy.
So, the American Constitution showed on its face these concerns, even while at the same time establishing a state which, by the time of Lincoln, a liberal like Bobbitt could dub the first nation state of terror, the very thing that later liberal leaders like Wilson and FDR were subsequently determined to restrict in the 20th Century by universalist multinational anti nationalist organizations and institutions.
So, when you hear Professor Kaiser criticize modern Republicans regarding lack of reverence for the Constitution that Lincoln used and abused, think about the bigger picture of lack of respect for the constitution that has always been there, since before 1776, from the left, which, for many here in the 20th Century, saw world Communism as the best answer to the problems of imperialism, nationalism, as well as the new thing called Fascism.
When Wilson called for self determination, that is, liberation from imperial mega states, and the creation of nation states, the very thing that liberals came to abhor, remember that Wilson's exhortation came with its own anti nation state strings attached, binding those newly free nations, to new multinational organizations and institutions restricting any nation's constitution, including ours, as much as they felt it utilitarian (quite the correct term) to do.
"...The Constitution--or at least, the 20th century interpretation of it--has been under attack for decades by the Right, who want to cripple the federal power to regulate the economy (something which, by the way, was well established at the time the Constitution was adopted.)..." DK
This passage has some special issues I will touch on.
For a long time, the federal government did not even have much of a budget. It was a constant problem.
Until after the Civil War, citizens of states referred to the country as these several states.
State economies were considered the relevant units by everyone except those in Washington. There was little federal largesse.
The power to regulate the economy was always limited, in principle in the constitution. The federal power to regulate commercial relations received a highly doubtful interpretation improperly enacted after the Civil War, when what powers the federal government had had, and which had usually lain dormant, were actuated in connection with other agendas regarding interstate commerce.
Regarding reverence, one can scarcely look further than J G Randall's The Civil War and Reconstruction, especially Ch XXXV Postwar Politics and Constitutional Change. Randall wrote a separate full length book on constitutional problems created by and during that era.
The last thing white Northern Republicans who had elected Lincoln would have wanted was to have white Southerners removed from the franchise and from political office, and have freed negroes enfranchised to vote in their place and to hold offices they had been deprived of.
Nothing further from the intention of the founders and drafters of the Constitution can possibly be imagined, except perhaps say a full fledged negro monarchy, a Negrocracy, rather than merely puppet negro state and local governments.
We have been the laughingstock of the entire world, not just the Western world, ever since.
We have long privately been laughed at especially by negro dictators, who have been quick, over many decades, to take our dumb foreign negro aid.
Matter of fact, we have payed more to foreign negroes than to our own! Trust me!
Thumbnail sketch coming soon.
"There was at Yalta specifically talk of a supranational body that would prevent outbreaks of future warfare and ensure the universal reign of justice. (The subject had earlier been raised at Quebec and Teheran.) This was a chief preoccupation of FDR, who in emulation of Woodrow Wilson before him thought the founding of such an agency would be his great legacy to the future." Stalin's Secret Agents, p. 15
You see here that the left liberal project, going back to the American Rebellion and the French Revolution, was deeply skeptical of all states having any strength, or even for example having a standing army at all. They rebelled against monarchy.
So, the American Constitution showed on its face these concerns, even while at the same time establishing a state which, by the time of Lincoln, a liberal like Bobbitt could dub the first nation state of terror, the very thing that later liberal leaders like Wilson and FDR were subsequently determined to restrict in the 20th Century by universalist multinational anti nationalist organizations and institutions.
So, when you hear Professor Kaiser criticize modern Republicans regarding lack of reverence for the Constitution that Lincoln used and abused, think about the bigger picture of lack of respect for the constitution that has always been there, since before 1776, from the left, which, for many here in the 20th Century, saw world Communism as the best answer to the problems of imperialism, nationalism, as well as the new thing called Fascism.
When Wilson called for self determination, that is, liberation from imperial mega states, and the creation of nation states, the very thing that liberals came to abhor, remember that Wilson's exhortation came with its own anti nation state strings attached, binding those newly free nations, to new multinational organizations and institutions restricting any nation's constitution, including ours, as much as they felt it utilitarian (quite the correct term) to do.
"...The Constitution--or at least, the 20th century interpretation of it--has been under attack for decades by the Right, who want to cripple the federal power to regulate the economy (something which, by the way, was well established at the time the Constitution was adopted.)..." DK
This passage has some special issues I will touch on.
For a long time, the federal government did not even have much of a budget. It was a constant problem.
Until after the Civil War, citizens of states referred to the country as these several states.
State economies were considered the relevant units by everyone except those in Washington. There was little federal largesse.
The power to regulate the economy was always limited, in principle in the constitution. The federal power to regulate commercial relations received a highly doubtful interpretation improperly enacted after the Civil War, when what powers the federal government had had, and which had usually lain dormant, were actuated in connection with other agendas regarding interstate commerce.
Regarding reverence, one can scarcely look further than J G Randall's The Civil War and Reconstruction, especially Ch XXXV Postwar Politics and Constitutional Change. Randall wrote a separate full length book on constitutional problems created by and during that era.
The last thing white Northern Republicans who had elected Lincoln would have wanted was to have white Southerners removed from the franchise and from political office, and have freed negroes enfranchised to vote in their place and to hold offices they had been deprived of.
Nothing further from the intention of the founders and drafters of the Constitution can possibly be imagined, except perhaps say a full fledged negro monarchy, a Negrocracy, rather than merely puppet negro state and local governments.
We have been the laughingstock of the entire world, not just the Western world, ever since.
We have long privately been laughed at especially by negro dictators, who have been quick, over many decades, to take our dumb foreign negro aid.
Matter of fact, we have payed more to foreign negroes than to our own! Trust me!
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