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Friday, September 28, 2018

"Deja vu, all over again." About skulldugery. Which newbies? You be the judge.

Hat tip, Yogi Berra for the headline quote.

Beyond that, a post which is a deja vu exercise. A 1994 N.Y. Times LTE text excerpt follows, for you to identify an "If the shoe fits let him wear it," individual currently making news.


Let Us Count Spoons

[...] The correct quotation is, "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons," and it was Ralph Waldo Emerson who said it.

What Dr. Johnson said was, "If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons."

But then what would a supporter of a man who subverted the Constitution, broke the law and lied to Congress know of honor, let alone of the distinction between virtue and vice?

[bolding added]

Now guess. The man who is discussed? The "supporter" of that man. THEN and NOW.
get both sets correct to earn your gold star


_____ANSWER, DON'T PEEK UNTIL YOU'VE GUESSED_______

The original was posited about Oliver L. North, testifying before a Congressional committee; the "supporter" then, William Kristol.

Current events substitute, the man at issue - who else but Brett Kavanaugh, likewise testifying.

And for "supporter" name any of the bunch of obsequious Senate Judicial Committee Republicans, or pluralize it to "supporters" and name them all.