Political and social observations from two aspiring hedgehogs who love the Isaiah Berlin essay.
This is funny, and makes an excellent point about the Democrats' requests for protected or privileged documents from John Roberts' tenure in the Executive Branch. (HT: Power Line.)
posted by Lowell Brown at 2:39 PM
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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." --Archilochus
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
--John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770.
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I have thought the same thing about politicians in general for some time. We know that special interests provide information and expertise for bills in congress and it is not too difficult to think that their information is slanted towards their position. It also doesn’t take too much imagination to believe that politicians will respond kindly to the help they receive. That is human nature and is not necessarily graft, but there is no transparency as to the relationship between the lobbyist and the politician for the public. The senator’s or house member’s correspondence is not released for public review, however I don’t believe there is a basis for the information to be kept secret. But congress usually thinks that the executive branch has to offer up documentation that they would be horrified to think about releasing. Just a little hypocrisy on congress’s part, I would think. Maybe before elections there should be a freedom of information release of all politicians’ government records. Gee, that certainly would be entertaining.
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