>Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages >appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the >second time as farce. Caussidière for Danton, Louis Blanc for Robespierre, the >Montagne of 1848 to 1851 for the Montagne of 1793 to 1795, the nephew for the >uncle. And the same caricature occurs in the circumstances of the second >edition of the Eighteenth Brumaire.< -- Marx, THE EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE.
I picked up a few details of the Congressional committee meeting that voted that US Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr., should be held in contempt of Congress. It was like history repeating itself: the GOPsters were ranting about "cover up" and "stonewalling," using a lot of the other Watergate-era terms. It goes on and on. To add to the nostalgia, President Obama had asserted executive privilege over some documents sought by the panel. But this is clearly a farce: Watergate was an effort by Nixon's team to sidestep the law to get him reelected, by hook or by crook. Operation Fast and Furious, on the other hand, was just EXTREMELY STUPID. It's true that there are elements of cover-up in F&F, but these scandals are on two completely different levels. -- Jim Devine / "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
