For everyone’s delight, some excerpts from the Senate Watergate hearings of May 1973. Look! A few respectable Republicans. And some very shifty ones:
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
~~Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chance for Peace address, April 16, 1953
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2005—IN-08: Heartless vote comes back to haunt Republican:
The Indiana 8th CD is known as the "bloody eight", and it produces some of the tightest races every single cycle. It's been held by Republican John Hostettler for a few cycles now, but a new sheriff in town (literally) -- Brad Ellsworth -- and he aims to clean house (literally).
Suddenly, events in the Gulf Coast and his district have conspired to make Hostettler’s life miserable.
Expect to see a lot more of Vanderburgh Co., IN sheriff Brad Ellsworth. He's been a steady television presence over the weekend, calming nerves and briefing the press after tornados killed … The district is represented by GOP Rep. John Hostettler, who was one of eleven in the House to vote against the mammoth Katrina aid package last month. Hostettler was excoriated by editorial boards (and even a local priest) for his vote.The tornado killed 22 people and injured more than 200 in Vanderburgh County. Suddenly, Hostettler's heartlessness to the victims of the Katrina disaster has local salience.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Kentucky Republicans contemplate stealing the election. What to expect from the first public hearings, next week. Fox Nutwork wildly screws up "PC" claim. Barr declines to exonerate Trump in presser. Sauds used Twitter employees to spy on dissidents.
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