Rep. @Liz_Cheney: "I think that both parties got China wrong for about 20 years. [...] Simultaneous to their openness economically, the technology became available to conduct what really is a massive surveillance state."
I have been tweeting less lately b/c of feeling like a man in this old Soviet joke:
A man is caught posting "illegal flyers" & taken to the KGB for interrogation:
Q: Why are you posting blank sheets of paper?
A: What is there to say? Everyone already knows what is going on here.
For once, I agree with Mike Pence: Trump has a lot in common with Andrew Johnson--as a crude and lawless president who made impeachment unavoidable. https://t.co/WSWuaYLa0R
“Critics of the law complain that it puts U.S. businesses at a disadvantage in places where bribes are customary.”
You know what else puts our companies at a disadvantage? Child labor laws & human rights protections. But we don’t scrap those, either—because we have principles.
.@AlanDersh comments on impeachment on Larry King Live, 8/24/98
01:41:04 DERSHOWITZ: “It certainly doesn't have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty.”
Clashes broke out between protesters and police in Hong Kong, cutting short a rally calling for electoral reforms and a boycott of the Chinese Communist Party
https://t.co/1NQWwA8iTf
In Federalist No. 65, Hamilton does not warn—as Dershowitz and some Rs claim—that we should reject impeachment when parties clash over it. To the contrary, Hamilton cites the inevitability of partisanship as a reason to support the Constitution’s approach to trying impeachments.