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Judicial Betrayal

CedarStrip Wrote: Jul 04, 2012 2:27 PM
The oath of office means little to Progressives (John Dewey preferred New Liberals) because they are aware of the flaws in the Constitution. Dewey, father of modern education, said of the Founders, "But they failed to perceive that social control of economic forces is equally necessary if anything approaching economic equality and liberty is to be realized... Organized social planning, put into effect for the creation of an order in which industry and finance are socially directed in behalf of institutions that provide the material basis for the cultural liberation and growth of individuals, is now the sole method of social action by which liberalism can realize its professed aims." See more at: http://cedarstrip.wordpress.com/
Betrayal is hard to take, whether in our personal lives or in the political life of the nation. Yet there are people in Washington -- too often, Republicans -- who start living in the Beltway atmosphere, and start forgetting those hundreds of millions of Americans beyond the Beltway who trusted them to do right by them, to use their wisdom instead of their cleverness.

President Bush 41 epitomized these betrayals when he broke his "read my lips, no new taxes" pledge. He paid the price when he quickly went from high approval ratings as president to someone defeated for reelection by a...

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