It is a dirty bird that dirties its own nest.
I pity Freshman U.S. Representative RONALD DION DESANTIS a/k/a RON DESANTIS (R-Ponte Vedra, Fl 6th)(born 1978, Jacksonville, Florida) and freshman U.S. Senator RAFAEL EDWARD CRUZ a/k/a TED CRUZ (R-Texas)(born 1970, Calgary, Alberta, Canada). Both are ingrates, attacking their alma mater.
Both DESANTIS and CRUZ are openly and notoriously red-baiting their law school alma mater, Harvard Law School (HLS), using HLS as a punchline for acerbic red-baiting remarks..
How ungracious, untruthful and uncouth. Were they plants? Did they go there with the express purpose of embarrassing HLS? What fools and tools these weird whippersnappers are proving to be.
Both DESANTIS and CRUZ went to the Ivy League knowing it was liberal -- intelligent, well-informed professors usually are -- it is a fact of life.
Congressman RONALD DION DESANTIS graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. DESANTIS was a military and corporate lawyer, representing corporations for HOLLAND & KNIGHT. DESANTIS' wife is a TV broadcaster for GANNETT, monopolistic news media empire, operator of FIRST COAST NEWS in Jacksonville, combining ABC and NBC affiliates in possible violation of antitrust laws; this duopoly was allowed to exist by dint of Bush II era FCC desuetude of law enforcement.
Senator RAFAEL EDWARD CRUZ graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. CRUZ was Harvard Law Review Editor. Then CRUZ clerked for an appellate judge, then for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, then helped Bush steal Florida during the 2000 Florida recounts, was rewarded with appointments to work for Bush at the FTC Office of Policy & Planning (planning regulatory desuetude, perhaps?), then at the Department of Justice, then was Texas's Solicitor General, and and then worked for the corporate law firm of MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS, heading its Supreme Court and appellate practice since 2008, defending the ruling classes and their corporate fiefdoms. Senator TED CRUZ's wife is an investment banker with GOLDMAN SACHS and formerly worked in the Bush White House for Condoleeza Rice. For USA Today to call CRUZ "anti-establishment" is, at best, facetious.
Rose Kennedy's favorite Bible verse was, "To whom much is given, much is expected. The public record is devoid of any evidence that either CRUZ or DESANTIS -- two educated men -- ever did anything to help anyone else. They are corporate tools -- corporate consiglieres elected to public office at a young age by Big Money. These red-baiters are acting today like spoiled brats. Both appeal to yahoos, bigots, Tea Partiers and KKK members by attacking their own alma mater with errant falsehoods.
What a waste of a good education, in both the case of DESANTIS and CRUZ!
Both CRUZ and DESANTIS lack social skills, empathy and common sense -- legal idiot savants.
The pitiful sight of freshman Rep. RONALD DION DESANTIS in Palm Coast February 19th, responding to the parents of a murdered seven year old from Newtown CT, was utterly without empathy -- "I'm sorry for what happened to you," as if someone stubbed their toes or gave them a C in First Year Civil Procedure. How shallow and callow.
Then, DESANTIS and CRUZ red-bait Harvard Law School, of which they were once proud to be a part.
It is a dirty bird that dirties its own nest.
I graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, which I knew to be a conservative school when I applied there. I was and am proud to be a part of GU, even thought I am a lifelong liberal Democrat. I learned a lot there -- and on Capitol Hill. I especially learned from professors with whom I disagreed.
It is called "diversity," and "academic freedom" -- two things for which the Tea Party termagants CRUZ and DESANTIS have no respect. CRUZ and DESANTIS prefer worshipful, gullible Tea Party acolytes, bears of little brain, who provide them with fawning obeisance, as at DESANTIS' Nuremberg-style rally at the Tea Party in Palm Coast on February 19th (held the same day of the month and same time and same place as regular Flagler County Tea Party meetings -- that was no "Town Hall" meeting, it was a Tea Party meeting).
Some of my most lasting memories of academia at Georgetown include conservative icons like World War II Polish Underground diplomat Jan Karski, who blew the whistle on Nazi concentration camps to FDR and Churchill and Frankfurter, et al; economist Lev Dobriansky, later Ambassador to Bermuda; and political theoretician Jose Sorzano, later Deputy UN Ambassador under Professor Jeanne Kirkpatrick, under President Ronald Reagan. I respected their intellects, and they encouraged dissent. I never once heard them, or anyone else teaching at Georgetown, engage in low-class red-baiting of liberals, which would have been seen as unseemly, unscholarly and undiplomatic.
Indeed, Professor Dobriansky, et al. went to great lengths to explain the important differences between democratic socialism (e.g., Israel, Sweden, etc.) and Communism (USSR, Soviet bloc, Cuba, China).
That's called nuance, something the unsophisticated, anti-intellectual lugubrious goobers in the Koch Brothers-funded Tea Party would not recognize.
You won't see, read or hear me bad-mouthing Georgetown University. When I disagreed with it, I used persuasion to win the day, not insults. (With the Gay and Lesbian Alumni of Georgetown University, we encouraged GU to settle a Gay rights case, after two pro bono corporate law firms won the case in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, rejecting Edward Bennett Williams' demand to seek certiorari from the Supreme Court, which would have doomed Georgetown's reputation forever).
You won't see me bad-mouthing my law school alma mater (Memphis State, which now is called the University of Memphis). I am grateful for what I learned in both those institutions, and to the people who taught me.
Reading TED CRUZ red-bait HLS -- and hearing RON DESANTIS do the same in Palm Coast -- makes me question their ethics and rationality: this borders dangerously on sociopathic sophistry -- or what Lincoln might have called "idolatry that practices human sacrifice." CRUZ actually said in August 2012 that Republicans too often were "making hateful attacks but then compromising on basic principle." He proclaimed that "President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together." This is the same energumen who now red-baits HLS and former Nebraska Senator Charles Hagel.
This is all about character -- CRUZ and DESANTIS are political chameleons, hypocrites and carping harpies -- all too willing to brown-nose Harvard Law Professors to grub good grades and get good jobs with Corporate America.
Then after graduation, mutatis mutandis, they stab their alma mater in the back to get votes from fascists. There, I said it -- CRUZ and DESANTIS are lying about their alma mater to euchre support from the lying, crying Koch Brothers, who founded the Tea Party, and whose father founded the John Birch Society.
Gentle readers, do not believe a word that DESANTIS and CRUZ say -- they're for sale. They are loudmouth phonies, selling myths to the unhinged. It is a dirty bird that dirties its own nest -- this makes two of them -- TED CRUZ and RON DESANTIS -- they bear watchin'.
To CRUZ and DESANTIS, let me use the words one of the judges of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals said to Georgetown's lawyer (Vince Fuller) in our Gay rights case: "TRY TOLERANCE."
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