Kojo Annan Quotes
I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.
Traub, James. The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
In 2015, a group of hyper-partisan Republicans initiated yet another investigation of the attack on an American Consulate in Libya where the U. S Ambassador was killed. The incident had occurred when Hilary Clinton had been Secretary of State some time earlier. However, she was then the leading Democratic Candidate for President, and some Republicans wanted to question her under oath in the hopes that they could find something to embarrass her and derail her surging campaign. Hanna and a few other Republicans admitted the truth as they were opposed to the abuse of the Congressional power to investigate for partisan purposes. However, the reaction against Hanna by some members of his own party was extremely harsh. The theory of the Hanna critics was that telling the truth was in this case highly embarrassing to the Party and damaged the credibility of many accusations made against Mrs. Clinton who turned the tables on the investigators in when they questioned her for over 11 hours straight, and despite the total absurdity of the hearing and the questions—all of which had been asked before, she comported herself with Presidential dignity and pretended to take the hearings very seriously and answered the same loaded questions repeatedly. See {582957} for his earlier statements.
The text was actually written by John Kenneth Galbraith who was writing speeches for Stevenson.
Some Republican leaders, unhappy with some judicial decsions with which they did not agree, proposed measures from cutting judicial budgets to impeachment of judges.
At the time, the Republicans held the House of Representatives, but not the Senate or the Presidency. By popular vote, even the House elections had the majority voting for the Democrats, but the gerrymandering gave the Republicans more seats. A minority of the minority Republicans were Tea Party Republicans—ultra conservatives who would not compromise but who intimidated other Republicans by threatening to run candidates against them in primary elections. The result was that the Tea Party Republicans—a minority of the minority could block almost any legislation and did. That Congress passed less legislation than any in American history including the “Do Nothing Congress” of the Truman era.
The irony of this quotation is that most people think that if there is any area of politics that should be nonpartisan or bipartisan, it is governing the voting and election process of our democracy. Yet, many who actually do the redistricting, are extremely partisan in the process.
Kojo Adeyemo Annan is a Ghanaian-Nigerian businessman and son of the late former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
