02-01-2017, 02:30 PM
(02-01-2017, 09:45 AM)xxlt Wrote: Missed the press conference. My understanding was she directed her underlings to not enforce the order. But, honestly, if she had a press conference that distinction doesn't matter to me. Right is right, and I don't give many style points. If your superior is subverting the Constitution, or abusing the power of their office, I say find the nearest bus. That's why we have whistle blower laws.
See, here's your problem, you're claiming right is right, but what we're discussing is her opinion, and yours. This is not a clear cut, right and wrong order. It is not unconstitutional, although certain elements may be, nor is it abusing the power of the office. Yates, and yourself, find the order personally and politically objectionable. You are both absolutely entitled to that opinion and you are entitled to act on your convictions. What you are not entitled to do, if you want to claim you're doing the right thing, is lambaste your superior in public and expect to keep your job. Yates is being called courageous when in fact she is a coward and an opportunist. A person of morals and conviction would have talked to their superior in private about their reservations and then, if they still felt incapable of performing their job, they should resign. That's what a person of integrity did in the Nixon example that the left has trotted out as their latest Trump conflation.
Quote:Sometimes your kind get their way though, and power trumps righteousness.
Gotta love the tolerant left. If your opinion differs from theirs you're either a Nazi, racist or a fascist. Keep it up and the GOP will have 70 seats in the senate by the end of 2018.
