From Jim Crow to Eat Crow: 'No one is above the law' - Holder, Biden and Theodore Roosevelt.

[denem]

In order of chronology:

April 22, 2009

Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that he would "follow the law" as he weighed potential prosecutions of Bush administration officials who authorized controversial harsh interrogation techniques...

"We are going to follow the evidence, follow the law and take that where it leads. No one is above the law"

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-22/politics/torture.prosecution_1_interrogation-earth-day-prosecutions?_s=PM:POLITICS

September 2, 2008

This week an ordinary citizen asked Joe Biden if the Obama Administration would "pursue violations that have been made against our Constitution by the present administration." His answer? Yes...

Looking to the future but with one eye on the past, Biden also promised that an Obama-Biden government would go through Bush administration data with "a fine-toothed comb" and pursue criminal charges if necessary...

"If there has been a basis on which you could pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued. Not out of vengeance, not out of retribution. Out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no one, no attorney general, no president, no one is above the law.

http://www.tressugar.com/Joe-Biden-Says-Obama-Administration-Would-Pursue-Bush-Crimes-1918715?page=0,4
http://warisacrime.org/node/35826

December 7, 1903

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

Theodore Roosevelt, State of the Union Address.

One man, the Republican was true to his word. The Democrats have progressed from the party of Jim Crow to Eat Crow.

If you like plain talk, you can hear Joe Biden's hogwash here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13HbMfKTXr4

[mmonk]

1. My recommend was countered. The one man true to his word

was a progressive.


That is why I'm never going to just assume a Democrat today is progressive anymore. I'll need to know.

[denem]

3. He was a Republican President - what are you talking about.

The Republican/Progressive slit took place in 1912

[mmonk]

4. And what else did he run as?

[denem]

5. 1900 Republican VP, 1904 Republican President.

He said those words as a Republican President, and kept them as a Republican President..

This is basic civics. Progressives left the Republican Party AFTER 1912

[mmonk]

6. Another basic civics lesson (or history). He left after frustration with that party and ran as a

Progressive.

[denem]

7. He said it as a Republican; He kept his word as a Republican.

By 1908, no one could fault him applying the law without fear or favor. If you are saying the Republican party of 1913 was not the same as 1901 well ... duh. In 1916 he campaigned for Charles Hughes, the Republican candidate for President up against Wilson.

[mmonk]

9. Irregardless, he was progressive.

The label doesn't matter. Which is my point. I'm progressive and a Democrat. I put my emphasis on progressive.

[denem]

10. And my point is there was a time when the Republicans were progressive.

t was not until the 1920 that the Taft/Coolidge laissez-faire policies triumphed.

[mmonk]

11. And Roosevelt feared a shadow government out of it.

[denem]

12. And he was absolutely right. Perhaps the biggest difference

is that today the 'shadows' don't even bother hiding. They strut their stuff shamelessly in front on the MSM brass bands.

[mmonk]

14. You've got that right.

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[Kolesar]

8. Unless you're gettting anthrax in the mail...eom

[denem]

13. ...